Container Service for Kubernetes:ACK Virtual Node: Overview and release notes

Version

Image address

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v2.15.0

registry-$RegionId-vpc.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.15.0

August 19, 2025

• New features:

  • Added support for reserved nodes.

  • Added support for automatic conversion from the ECI protocol to the ACS protocol.

• Optimizations:

  • Reduced memory footprint by approximately 40%.

  • Improved the creation success rate of ACS pods.

  • Increased the ephemeral-storage capacity of virtual nodes to 60000 Ti to prevent scheduling failures.

• Bug fixes:

  • Fixed a bug that prevented ACS GPU pods from scaling out after mounting cloud disks.

  • Fixed a bug that caused in-place container restarts to fail.

  • Fixed a bug where the PodNetworking configuration had no effect in ACK clusters.

This upgrade does not affect existing workloads.

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Image address

Update time

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v2.14.6

registry-$RegionId-vpc.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.14.6

July 21, 2025

• Fixed unintended deletion of PrivateZone records with specific names.

• Fixed an intermittent failure to update the ContainerInstanceCreated condition.

This update does not impact your workloads.

v2.14.5

registry-$RegionId-vpc.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.14.5

July 10, 2025

Reduced local cache latency.

This update does not impact your workloads.

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Image address

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v2.14.4

registry-$RegionId-vpc.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.14.4

June 15, 2025

• Optimized the virtual node scheduling policy to mark temporary virtual nodes and those pending deletion as unschedulable.

• Fixed some issues with using PV nodePublishSecretRef in ECI instances.

• Fixed an intermittent issue that caused Pods to get stuck in the Pending state under abnormal conditions.

• Fixed an ACS instance status update issue introduced in v2.14.3.

This upgrade does not impact existing workloads.

v2.14.3

registry-$RegionId-vpc.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.14.3

June 11, 2025

• Fixed an intermittent issue that caused Pods to get stuck in the Pending state after multiple creation retries.

• Fixed an issue introduced in v2.14.0 that prevented the deletion of Completed ACS instances.

• Fixed an issue that prevented retries of Pod status update failures in edge cases.

This upgrade does not impact existing workloads.

v2.12.8

registry-$RegionId-vpc.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.12.8

June 10, 2025

• Fixed an intermittent crash when updating Pod status.

• Fixed a resource leak related to WaitForFirstConsumer volume provisioning in certain scenarios.

This upgrade does not impact existing workloads.

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v2.14.2

registry-$RegionId-vpc.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.14.2

May 30, 2025

• Fixed an insufficient permissions issue when mounting a cloud disk to an ACS GPU instance in an ACK cluster.

• Fixed memory leaks and startup failures in the log controller.

• Improved the retry mechanism for failed pod creation.

This update does not affect your workloads.

v2.14.1

registry-$RegionId-vpc.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.14.1

May 21, 2025

• Fixed an issue in v2.14.0 where instance deletion failed in ACK dedicated clusters and ACK One registered clusters.

• Fixed an issue that prevented PersistentVolumeClaim status updates after resizing the associated instance cloud disk.

• Fixed an issue where PrivateZone DNS records for specific Services were continuously created and deleted.

This update does not affect your workloads.

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v2.14.0

registry-$RegionId-vpc.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.14.0

April 24, 2025

• A virtual node now automatically becomes unschedulable if its corresponding zone experiences an outage.

• ACS pods can now use the default cluster time zone.

• ACS instances support the nodePublishSecretRef configuration for PVs.

• Optimized in-place hot-swapping of CPU resources in ACS pods.

• Improved compatibility between ACK clusters and existing DNS cache configurations.

• Fixed a parsing issue for eci-profile configurations with an invalid format.

• Fixed a memory leak in the logging module.

• Fixed a volume provisioning leak in certain scenarios with WaitForFirstConsumer.

This update does not impact your workloads.

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v2.13.4

registry-$RegionId-vpc.ack.aliyuncs.com/ACS/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.13.4

2025-02-14

Improved the retry logic for scheduling scenarios, such as spreading ACS instances across topology domains.

No impact on workloads.

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v2.13.2

registry-$RegionId-vpc.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.13.2

January 21, 2025

• Fixes an issue where pods occasionally remained in the Pending state in scheduling scenarios such as topology spread.

• Fixes unnecessary updates to ACS pods in some scenarios.

This update does not affect existing workloads.

v2.13.1

registry-$RegionId-vpc.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.13.1

January 14, 2025

• Fixes an issue where pods occasionally remained in the Pending state when creating a large number of ACS pods.

• Fixes an issue where the component would not retry ACS pod creation after a disk-in-use error.

• Fixes an issue where the specifications of an ACS pod continuously increased on each creation retry.

• Fixes issues with exec, attach, and port-forward for ACS pods.

This update does not affect existing workloads.

v2.12.6

registry-$RegionId-vpc.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.12.6

January 14, 2025

• Fixes an issue where pods could not be updated after creation in scheduling scenarios such as topology spread.

• Fixes an issue where SidecarSet authorization failures caused pods to remain in the Pending state.

• Fixes unnecessary pod status updates in specific scenarios.

• Fixes an issue that prevented startup failure information from an elastic container instance from being propagated to the pod.

• Fixes an issue where kubectl delete all accidentally deleted ImageCache resources.

This update does not affect existing workloads.

v2.13.0

registry-$RegionId-vpc.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.13.0

January 4, 2025

• Adds support for ACS computing power.

• Adds support for volume-related metrics.

• Fixes issues with the managed csi-provisioner component in ACK clusters when using the WaitForFirstConsumer mode.

• Improves the efficiency of retrieving logs for deleted ACS pods and elastic container instances.

• Improves pod deletion efficiency.

This update does not affect existing workloads.

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v2.12.4

registry-$RegionId-vpc.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.12.4

2024-12-04

• Fixed a rare issue where Pods would get stuck in the pending state after failing to associate with an elastic container instance.

• Fixed an issue where the WaitForFirstConsumer binding mode was unavailable in the Heyuan ACDR Auto region.

This upgrade does not affect your workloads.

v2.12.3

registry-$RegionId-vpc.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.12.3

2024-12-04

Fixed a volume performance issue that occurred when multiple Pods were mounted to the same PVC.

This upgrade does not affect your workloads.

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v2.12.2

registry-$RegionId-vpc.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.12.2

2024-11-08

• Fixed an issue where selectors in an eci-profile were ineffective when using a SidecarSet.

• Fixed inaccurate metric timestamps.

No impact on workloads.

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v2.12.1

registry-$RegionId-vpc.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.12.1

September 12, 2024

• Updated the capacity.pods limit on virtual nodes to 50,000.

• Fixed an issue where the stats/summary endpoint for a virtual node included deleted pods.

• Fixed an issue where nodes with the 'virtual' prefix were unintentionally updated.

This update does not affect your workloads.

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v2.12.0

registry-$RegionId-vpc.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.12.0

August 2, 2024

• Added support for Kubernetes 1.30.

• Reduced pod creation time for virtual nodes in large-scale scenarios.

• Fixed an issue where a SidecarSet would inject the same volume into pods multiple times.

• Fixed an issue where update events were intermittently lost during pod creation.

• Fixed an intermittent issue that caused pods to return a MissingParameter error in large-scale scenarios.

• Fixed an issue where some events were lost during pod deletion in edge cases.

No impact on workloads.

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v2.11.6

registry-$RegionId-vpc.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.11.6

June 14, 2024

• Fixed an issue where metrics for container-level partition reads and writes were missing.

• Improved performance in large-scale pod scenarios:

  • Reduced the startup time for virtual nodes.

  • Reduced the memory usage for metrics collection from virtual nodes.

This update has no impact on your workloads.

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v2.11.5

registry-$RegionId-vpc.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.11.5

May 7, 2024

• Fixed an issue where the container label was missing from some monitoring data in versions v2.11.0~v2.11.4.

• Reduced the virtual node startup time in large-scale pod scenarios.

This update does not impact your workloads.

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v2.11.4

registry-$RegionId-vpc.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.11.4

April 17, 2024

• Fixed an issue in versions v2.11.0 to v2.11.3 where monitoring data for pod file systems was lost.

• Added support for managed Simple Log Service on virtual nodes in ACK One Fleet instances.

No impact on workloads.

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v2.11.3

registry-$RegionId-vpc.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.11.3

March 18, 2024

• Fixed an issue with ARMS in the China (Hangzhou) Finance region.

• Improved performance when creating Pods in batches on a virtual node.

This update does not impact your workloads.

v2.10.8

registry-$RegionId-vpc.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.10.8

March 12, 2024

• Fixed an issue where requests to port 10250 failed in an ACK Dedicated Cluster.

• Optimized the cleanup logic for virtual nodes in edge cases to improve their self-healing.

This update does not impact your workloads.

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v2.11.0

registry-$RegionId-vpc.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.11.0

2024-02-02

• New features

  • Support for Windows instances.

  • Support for Windows nodes with native Kubernetes scheduling.

  • Support for SysOM, which provides kernel-level observability for Elastic Container Instance.

  • Support for Container Network File System (CNFS).

  • Support for ephemeral volumes.

  • Support for ephemeral containers.

  • Support for a notification mechanism for the graceful shutdown of preemptible instances.

• Optimization

  • Improved the efficiency of certificate generation during the creation of ECI pods.

  • The metrics query API now supports filtering by NodeName.

• Fixes

  • Fixed a null pointer exception in the ImageCacheController.

  • Fixed duplicate metric reporting for containers on virtual nodes.

No impact on workloads.

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v2.10.7

registry-$RegionId-vpc.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.10.7

2024-01-26

Optimized virtual node registration and fixed related regional cache errors.

No impact on workloads.

v2.10.6

registry-$RegionId-vpc.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.10.6

2024-01-23

Fixed a virtual node startup failure caused by an incorrect selectors configuration in the eci-profile ConfigMap.

No impact on workloads.

v2.10.5

registry-$RegionId-vpc.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.10.5

2024-01-03

Fixed frequent endpoint updates in metrics sharding mode.

No impact on workloads.

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v2.10.4

registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.10.4

November 27, 2023

• Fixed a performance issue when creating ZoneRecords in Alibaba Cloud DNS PrivateZone.

• Fixed a bug where an existing Simple Log Service project was not applied when selected during cluster creation.

• Fixed an issue where deleting a Certificate Signing Request (CSR) in specific scenarios caused restart issues.

• Fixed a case-sensitivity issue with the OperatingSystem=Linux label.

This update does not affect your workloads.

v2.10.3

registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.10.3

November 14, 2023

• Fixed an issue where repeatedly enabling Alibaba Cloud DNS PrivateZone prevented the creation of ZoneRecords for some new Services.

• Fixed an issue that prevented some PVC resize requests from being processed when the PVC controller was repeatedly enabled.

• Fixed missing metrics in query results.

This update does not affect your workloads.

v2.10.2

registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.10.2

November 10, 2023

Fixed a crash caused by NetworkPolicy configurations.

This update does not affect your workloads.

v2.10.1

registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.10.1

November 6, 2023

Removed the dependency on the ack-kruise component for dynamically enabling SidecarSet.

This update does not affect your workloads.

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v2.10.0

registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.10.0

October 30, 2023

• New features

  • Added support for Kubernetes scheduling semantics for elastic workloads in Kubernetes 1.22 and later, including topology spread constraints and node affinity and anti-affinity.

  • Added support for SidecarSet.

  • Added support for NetworkPolicy.

  • Added support for DADI P2P image acceleration.

  • Added support for eBPF DNSCache.

  • Added the container_instance_resource_limits metric to report the actual specifications of a container instance.

  • Added support for GPU Monitoring 2.0.

• Optimizations

  • Optimized Scheduling status synchronization for underlying instances.

  • New virtual nodes in an ACK Serverless cluster no longer include the virtual-kubelet.io/provider label by default.

  • Accelerated Pod binding to virtual nodes.

  • Improved PrivateZone record management for Headless Services.

  • Improved the retry mechanism for failed installations of Managed Service for Prometheus.

  • Refined log output.

  • The MetricsVpcNet feature gate is now enabled by default.

• Fixes

  • Fixed issues such as an incorrect Usages field for certificates.

  • Prevented Pods from being scheduled to cordoned virtual nodes.

  • Resolved an intermittent issue that caused Pods to get stuck in the Pending state under high load.

This update does not affect your workloads.

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v2.9.7

registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.9.7

2023-09-01

Fixed an issue where the automatic cleanup of underlying elastic container instances after a scheduling failure caused a system crash.

This update does not affect your workloads.

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v2.9.6

registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.9.6

August 15, 2023

Optimized the startup retry mechanism for Managed Service for Prometheus.

No impact on workloads.

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v2.9.5

registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.9.5

July 27, 2023

Optimized pod scheduling to virtual nodes.

No impact on workloads.

v2.9.4

registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.9.4

July 26, 2023

• The WaitForFirstConsumer feature gate is now enabled by default.

• Fixed the incorrect KUBERNETES_SERVICE_PORT_HTTPS pod environment variable.

• Fixed outdated Arm inventory information.

No impact on workloads.

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v2.9.3

registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.9.3

June 21, 2023

• Added full support for Arm nodes in ACK clusters.

• Fixed an issue where workloads on an Arm node failed to reference the NodeName field through the Downward API.

• Fixed an issue where nodes running v2.9.x could not be configured with custom labels or annotations.

• Fixed a component crash caused by the -disable-taint command-line parameter.

• Fixed an issue where the --node-arch command-line parameter did not take effect.

• Fixed an issue that caused pods to remain in the Pending state in some scenarios when the WaitForFirstConsumer feature is enabled.

This update does not affect your workloads.

v2.9.2

registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.9.2

April 28, 2023

Fixed an issue that prevented pods from being scheduled to a virtual node in an ACK Basic cluster.

This update does not affect your workloads.

v2.9.1

registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.9.1

April 20, 2023

• Fixed an issue that caused virtual nodes to flap.

• Fixed a synchronization issue with elastic container instance scheduling failures in Fail Fast mode.

• Optimized the behavior of Headless Services in PrivateZone.

This update does not affect your workloads.

v2.8.8

registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.8.8

April 27, 2023

Fixed an issue causing pods to restart during component restarts in some scenarios.

This update does not affect your workloads.

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v2.9.0

registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.9.0

March 30, 2023

• Adds support for ARM-based nodes in ACK Serverless clusters.

• Adds support for a new elastic container instance type with the acs-visible-only attribute.

• Adds the ContainerInstanceCreated condition to show the creation state of the underlying instance.

• Adds the container_spec_cpu_shares metric.

• Optimized the pod update logic to reduce unnecessary updates to underlying instances.

• Optimized the installation and uninstallation logic and improved failure messages for managed Prometheus.

• Optimized the configuration logic and improved failure messages for DNSConfig.

• Optimized event and state synchronization for underlying elastic container instances.

• Optimized the scheduling logic for when you manually specify Pod.Spec.NodeName.

• Set the default log line count to 500.

• Fixed an issue where exec or attach commands failed for pods in the Pending state.

This update does not affect your workloads.

v2.8.5

registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.8.5

March 2, 2023

Fixed a rare instance leak issue.

This update does not affect your workloads.

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v2.8.4

registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.8.4

December 27, 2022

• Optimized fail-fast mode.

• Fixed an intermittent issue where pod status reverted.

• Fixed an issue that prevented PrivateZone from resolving domain names for a headless service.

• Fixed a potential resource leak when deleting pods with GracePeriod=0.

This update does not affect your workloads.

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v2.8.3

registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.8.3

November 25, 2022

• Fixed incorrect records in Alibaba Cloud DNS PrivateZone when cluster domain names were enabled.

• Fixed a bug where predefined environment variables would overwrite custom environment variables.

• Fixed a bug where only the first of multiple configured ImagePullSecrets would take effect.

• Fixed a crash when an APIService was unavailable.

This update does not affect your workloads.

v2.8.1

registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.8.1

November 21, 2022

• Fixed a display issue with CPU utilization metrics.

• Improved the reason messages for Pod creation failures.

• Added automatic retries for MissingParameter errors during Pod creation.

This update does not affect your workloads.

v2.8.0

registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.8.0

November 21, 2022

• Added support for PodNetworking.

• Added support for metrics for dynamic PVC expansion.

• Fixed an issue where Alibaba Cloud DNS PrivateZone reported an error when the ServiceName field was empty in a StatefulSet resource.

• Fixed a bug where Alibaba Cloud DNS PrivateZone would fail to delete a ZoneRecord when many Endpoints existed.

• Addressed a frequent issue where ContainerDiskPressure was incorrectly set to False.

• Stopped ErrPodNotFound events from being generated for Pods in the Terminating state.

This update does not affect your workloads.

v2.7.5

registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.7.5

November 7, 2022

Fixed a cleanup issue with RBAC resources from v2.7.4.

This update does not affect your workloads.

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v2.7.4

registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.7.4

October 28, 2022

• Optimized Pod creation.

• Fixed idempotent Pod creation failures in some scenarios.

This update does not affect your workloads.

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v2.7.3

registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.7.3

September 28, 2022

Fixed an issue where annotations on registered nodes failed to update.

This update does not affect your workloads.

v2.7.2

registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.7.2

September 13, 2022

• Fixed an intermittent issue where idempotent pod creation failed.

• Fixed an issue where enabling logging with eci-profile prevented alerts from being sent.

This update does not affect your workloads.

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v2.7.1

registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.7.1

August 17, 2022

Resolved an intermittent pod creation failure.

No impact on workloads.

v2.7.0

registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.7.0

August 2, 2022

• Added support to install the managed logging component.

• Added support to install managed Prometheus.

• Added support to report exceptions from underlying ECI instances.

• Improved the idempotent creation of ECI instances.

• Improved pod-to-node binding.

No impact on workloads.

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v2.6.1

registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.6.1

2022-07-05

Fixed an issue where ack-virtual-node would intermittently hang during startup.

No impact on workloads.

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v2.6.0

registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.6.0

June 16, 2022

• New features:

  • Supports custom kubelet service ports.

  • Supports pod readiness gates in Kubernetes 1.16.

  • Supports CSI Node in Kubernetes 1.16.

  • Supports creating disks from disk snapshots with the WaitForFirstConsumer binding mode.

  • Supports the NodeName field in the downward API.

• Fixed issues:

  • Fixed an issue where the labels in an eci-profile configuration did not take effect.

  • Fixed a bug where the time-to-live (TTL) setting for logs in Logstore was overwritten.

  • Fixed a bug that caused error logs to be sent to the user's Logstore.

• Optimizations:

  • Optimized local cache synchronization for client-go.

  • Optimized the registration and update logic for virtual nodes.

  • Optimized the event reporting mechanism for ECI.

  • Reduced the size of the HTTP request body.

This update does not affect your workloads.

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v2.5.4

registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.5.4

2022-05-20

Fixed a crash issue that occurs when you configure eci-profile selectors.

No impact on existing workloads.

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v2.5.3

registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.5.3

April 28, 2022

• Fixed an intermittent crash when retrieving Metrics data.

• Fixed an intermittent issue that prevented pods from connecting to the API server.

This update does not affect your workloads.

v2.5.2

registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.5.2

April 20, 2022

• Fixed an issue that prevented Alibaba Cloud DNS PrivateZone from being enabled.

• Fixed an issue that caused the exec command to hang in clusters running Kubernetes 1.16.

• Fixed an issue that prevented Metrics data from being retrieved.

• Fixed a potential synchronization issue between the component status and events.

This update does not affect your workloads.

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v2.5.1

registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.5.1

March 31, 2022

• Added support for configuring the retention period for an image cache.

• Optimized requests to the API server.

• Improved Pod creation speed in large-scale scenarios.

• Reduced the latency for retrieving metrics data.

• Fixed memory spikes caused by concurrent requests for metrics data.

• Fixed an issue where duplicate metrics data was returned.

• Fixed an issue where /metrics and /metrics/cadvisor returned the same data.

• Fixed an issue where the SecretRef for Container Storage Interface (CSI) had no effect.

• Fix logs and exec failures or crashes.

• Fixed an issue that prevented the component from running in a private network.

This update does not affect your workloads.

v2.4.3

registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.4.3

March 17, 2022

Fixed logs and exec failures in Kubernetes 1.16.

This update does not affect your workloads.

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v2.4.2

registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.4.2

2022-01-11

• Fixed status inconsistencies between a cluster and its Elastic Container Instances.

• Fixed an issue that prevented Prometheus monitoring from retrieving data.

• Fixed an issue that prevented some annotations in Elastic Container Instance Profile from taking effect.

No impact on workloads.

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v2.4.0

registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.4.0

December 28, 2021

• Added support for Kubernetes 1.22.

• Added support for dynamic PVC expansion.

• Added support for the WaitForFirstConsumer volume binding mode.

• Optimized API calls to Elastic Container Instance.

• Fixed an issue with the virtual node version after a cluster upgrade.

• Fixed intermittent status inconsistencies in Job pods.

• Fixed intermittent status inconsistencies between pods and their underlying Elastic Container Instances.

• Fixed an issue where SecretRef configurations for CephFS and FlexVolume would intermittently fail to apply.

• Fixed intermittent crashes caused by an annotation.

No impact on workloads.

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v2.3.0

registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.3.0

November 15, 2021

• Added support for service account volume projection.

• Added support for IP dual-stack.

• Added support for configuring different overlay network types.

• Fixed a crash in specific scenarios.

• Optimized pod creation speed.

• Fixed a pod scheduling issue.

• Fixed slow reclamation of ECI instances.

This update does not impact your workloads.

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Description

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v2.2.0

registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.2.0

October 26, 2021

Improved query speed for events and status.

No impact on workloads.

v2.1.0

registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.1.0

October 12, 2021

No impact on workloads.

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v2.0.0.122-bdb884460-aliyun

registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.0.0.122-bdb884460-aliyun

May 24, 2021

Fixed repeated node creation during concurrent requests.

This update does not affect your workloads.

v2.0.0.113-650b21c48-aliyun

registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.0.0.113-650b21c48-aliyun

May 13, 2021

Added support for rolling updates for Alibaba Cloud DNS PrivateZone.

This update does not affect your workloads.

v2.0.0.110-49c928287-aliyun

registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.0.0.110-49c928287-aliyun

May 6, 2021

Added support for scheduling pods by using a node selector. When a pod is configured with the type=virtual-kubelet label, Virtual Kubelet manages it.

This update does not affect your workloads.

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v2.0.0.102-045a06eb4-aliyun

registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.0.0.102-045a06eb4-aliyun

2021-04-22

Fixed a display issue for virtual nodes.

This update does not affect your workloads.

v2.0.0.101-cd8bcfa04-aliyun

registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.0.0.101-cd8bcfa04-aliyun

2021-04-16

Optimized API calls to Alibaba Cloud DNS PrivateZone to avoid redundant calls to BindZoneVpc.

This update does not affect your workloads.

v2.0.0.93-ef86bbfa1-aliyun

registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.0.0.93-ef86bbfa1-aliyun

2021-04-13

Modified eciLogtailMacheineGroupKey to support log collection for environment variables and CustomResourceDefinitions (CRDs).

This update does not affect your workloads.

v2.0.0.90-15deb126e-aliyun

registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.0.0.90-15deb126e-aliyun

2021-04-06

Added support for Elastic Container Instance Profile.

This update does not affect your workloads.

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v2.0.0.86-9005a977d-aliyun

registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.0.0.86-9005a977d-aliyun

March 17, 2021

• Optimized the /etc/hosts file to support Domain and DNS annotations.

• Reduced the check time for ClusterRoleBinding.

• Optimized the leader election mechanism for multiple components.

No impact on workloads.

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v2.0.0.80-f9a46a994-aliyun

registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.0.0.80-f9a46a994-aliyun

February 25, 2021

Optimized the status check to create a Pod only when its status is Pending.

This update does not affect your workloads.

v2.0.0.76-6e9e19bd5-aliyun

registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.0.0.76-6e9e19bd5-aliyun

February 22, 2021

• Added support for PProf debugging.

• Added a toggle to control leader election.

• Updated the ClusterRole for EndpointSlice.

• Added a Kubernetes version annotation to Pods.

• Added support for configuring webhooks based on the Kubernetes version.

This update does not affect your workloads.

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Impact

v2.0.0.618-7fd50d738-aliyun

registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.0.0.618-7fd50d738-aliyun

December 4, 2020

• Improves pod compatibility.

• Adds support for leader election logic for multiple Virtual Kubelet controllers.

If the VPC and security group for your ECI pods are not configured correctly or cannot access the cluster API server, the pods may remain in the waiting state.

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v1.0.0.10-aliyun

registry.cn-hangzhou.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v1.0.0.10-aliyun

September 21, 2020

You can now use auto scaling to run application Pods as serverless containers on Elastic Container Instance (ECI).

This update does not impact your workloads.

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Description

Impact

v1.0.0.2-aliyun

registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v1.0.0.2-aliyun

March 12, 2020

• The virtual-nodes-eci controller is now deployed as a StatefulSet. You can now modify the number of replicas to create multiple virtual-kubelet nodes and support more ECI pods.

• The node naming format is now virtual-node-eci-$n.

• Added support for accessing ClusterIP Services.

• Added support for spot instances.

• Added support for mounting disk volumes by using CSI.

If your virtual-nodes-eci controller is deployed as a Deployment, first delete the ECI pods from the virtual-kubelet node, and then update or redeploy the component.