AppStack Public Preview Release – September 2021

Application management: After you create an application, AppStack automatically generates three environments—development, staging, and production—and their associated variable groups. This accelerates initialization.

Global settings: You can define custom application orchestration templates for your organization. This enables centralized control over application deployment architecture and resource definitions.

Global settings: You can manage service connections. This simplifies updating cloud service authorizations or cluster access credentials when team members leave or change roles.

Rollback failures during deployment

Agent installation failures when importing clusters

Missing current version information in the environment list

Undeployed environments do not display creator information. You also cannot navigate to orchestration or variable groups for these environments

Unreadable error messages when importing resources from clusters with abnormal status

Auto-fill commit logs when editing orchestration

Prevent duplicate imports of ACK resources within the same organization

Application orchestration: Added a Create Variable Group option when selecting a variable group for a new environment

Deployment tickets: Improved error messages for Kubernetes schema validation failures

Resource management: Added logic to detect OAM version compatibility in Kubernetes clusters

Define application deployment architecture and resources using native Kubernetes YAML

Add placeholders and variable groups to native YAML. This allows a single orchestration template to support differentiated deployments across multiple environments

Define environments and isolate development, staging, and production environments

Monitor environments to detect anomalies and troubleshoot issues. View container logs and key Kubernetes events

Use native Kubernetes rolling upgrade deployment strategies

Deploy in batches. Define batch size and pause policies to make production deployments more precise and controllable

Pause or roll back deployments with one click

Deploy to multiple environments simultaneously

Scale applications up or down

Lock environments

Clear version records let you trace every deployment. Rollbacks are complete and reliable

Track all O&M tickets—for deployments, rollbacks, scaling, and environment deletion

Create custom variables and variable groups. Associate them with different environments to support differentiated deployments

Use built-in system variables

Integrate with Apsara DevOps Flow pipelines. Orchestrate tasks from code branch selection and build through testing to deployment

Create new pipelines or link existing ones

Import Alibaba Cloud Container Service for Kubernetes (ACK) clusters

Import generic Kubernetes clusters using KubeConfig credentials

View cluster resources, hosts, and capacity

Define application orchestration templates globally