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Container Service for Kubernetes:ack-kubernetes-cronhpa-controller: Introduction and change history

Last Updated:Mar 26, 2026

ack-kubernetes-cronhpa-controller is a Kubernetes Horizontal Pod Autoscaler (HPA) controller that scales pods on a cron-based schedule. Unlike standard HPA, which scales in response to real-time metrics, Cron Horizontal Pod Autoscaler (CronHPA) lets you pre-scale workloads at predictable times — for example, scaling up before a known traffic surge or scaling down during off-peak hours.

CronHPA scales subresources in Kubernetes objects, including Deployments and StatefulSets. The subresources must belong to open source projects on GitHub.

Usage notes

For configuration details and usage instructions, see CronHPA.

Release notes

December 2023

Version Image address Release date Description Impact
v1.4.4-d9f7d25-aliyun registry-cn-beijing-vpc.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/kubernetes-cronhpa-controller:v1.4.4-d9f7d25-aliyun 2023-12-15 Improved CronHPA Job validation to prevent delays in cleaning up CronHPA Jobs. No impact on workloads.

March 2023

Version Image address Release date Description Impact
v1.4.3-8b73ecb-aliyun registry-cn-beijing-vpc.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/kubernetes-cronhpa-controller:v1.4.3-8b73ecb-aliyun 2023-03-24 Updated dependencies and optimized memory consumption. No impact on workloads.

February 2023

Version Image address Release date Description Impact
v1.4.2-b08beb8-aliyun registry-cn-beijing-vpc.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/kubernetes-cronhpa-controller:v1.4.3-8b73ecb-aliyunv1.4.2-b08beb8-aliyun 2023-02-27 Fixed a concurrency conflict that occurred when scheduled tasks ran simultaneously. No impact on workloads.

July 2022

Version Image address Release date Description Impact
v1.4.1-277c7d5-aliyun registry.cn-hangzhou.aliyuncs.com/acs/kubernetes-cronhpa-controller:v1.4.1-277c7d5-aliyun 2022-07-23 Added retry logic for tasks that were not executed due to timeouts. No impact on workloads.

May 2021

Version Image address Release date Description Impact
v1.4.0-a2f4954d-aliyun registry.cn-hangzhou.aliyuncs.com/acs/kubernetes-cronhpa-controller:v1.4.0-a2f4954d-aliyun 2021-05-27 Fixed an authorization issue related to elastic workloads. No impact on workloads.

December 2020

Version Image address Release date Description Impact
v1.4.0-fc4f6060-aliyun registry.cn-hangzhou.aliyuncs.com/acs/kubernetes-cronhpa-controller:v1.4.0-fc4f6060-aliyun 2020-12-18 Supported basic CronHPA features and HPA compatibility. No impact on workloads.