Alibaba Cloud ACK Edge is a cloud-edge integrated managed Kubernetes solution based on Container Service for Kubernetes (ACK) for edge scenarios. This topic describes the changes in Kubernetes 1.32 for ACK Edge clusters, including component consolidation and communication optimizations that affect upgrade planning.
Version description
The ACK Edge cluster Kubernetes version is 1.32.1-aliyun.1. For upstream changes in Kubernetes 1.32, see Kubernetes 1.32.
Edge autonomy
Requests from CoreDNS, kube-proxy, and kubelet to kube-apiserver are optimized to reduce cloud-edge communication traffic.
Component management
Component consolidation
The following components have been consolidated in this release:
| Removed component | Replacement component |
|---|---|
| yurt-manager | edge-controller-manager |
| terway-edge-manager (kube-system namespace) | terway-edge-controlplane (managed component) |
Network plug-in requirement change
When you select the terway-edge network plug-in, terway-edge-controlplane is now a required component by default.