ACK Virtual Node seamlessly connects Kubernetes with the computing power of Elastic Container Instance (ECI) and Container Compute Service (ACS). This topic describes the ACK Virtual Node component, provides instructions for its use, and details its release history.
Component overview
ACK Virtual Node is based on the open source project Virtual Kubelet. It extends provider support and includes multiple optimizations to seamlessly connect Kubernetes with the computing power of ECI and ACS. This provides Kubernetes clusters with high elasticity that is not limited by the compute capacity of cluster nodes. You can create ECI pods or ACS pods on demand without performing capacity planning for your cluster.
ACK Virtual Node runs application pods as serverless containers. This provides elasticity, eliminates the need for capacity planning, and offers a pay-as-you-go billing model. This significantly improves the elasticity of application deployments and reduces computing costs for scenarios such as Jobs, CI/CD, Spark big data computing, and elastically scalable online applications.
For more information about ECI pods, see ECI Pod overview.

For more information about ACS pods, see ACS Pod instance overview.
Instructions
To learn how to deploy the ACK Virtual Node component from the App Catalog, see Schedule pods to an ECI.
Change history
December 2025
Version | Registry address | Update time | Changes | Impact |
v2.15.8 | registry-$RegionId-vpc.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.15.8 | December 8, 2025 |
| This upgrade does not affect your services. |
November 2025
Version | Registry address | Update time | Changes | Impact |
v2.15.7 | registry-$RegionId-vpc.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.15.7 | November 26, 2025 |
| This upgrade does not affect your services. |
v2.15.6 | registry-$RegionId-vpc.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.15.6 | November 5, 2025 |
| This upgrade does not affect your services. |
October 2025
Version | Registry address | Update time | Changes | Impact |
v2.15.5 | registry-$RegionId-vpc.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.15.5 | October 20, 2025 |
| This upgrade does not affect your services. |
September 2025
Version | Registry address | Update time | Changes | Impact |
v2.15.4 | registry-$RegionId-vpc.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.15.4 | September 28, 2025 |
| This upgrade does not affect your services. |
v2.15.3 | registry-$RegionId-vpc.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.15.3 | September 28, 2025 |
| This upgrade does not affect your services. |
v2.15.2 | registry-$RegionId-vpc.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.15.2 | September 22, 2025 |
| This upgrade does not affect your services. |
v2.15.1 | registry-$RegionId-vpc.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.15.1 | September 9, 2025 |
| This upgrade does not affect your services. |
August 2025
Version | Registry address | Update time | Changes | Impact |
v2.15.0 | registry-$RegionId-vpc.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.15.0 | August 19, 2025 |
| This upgrade does not affect your services. |
July 2025
Version | Registry address | Update time | Changes | Impact |
v2.14.6 | registry-$RegionId-vpc.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.14.6 | July 21, 2025 |
| This upgrade does not affect your services. |
v2.14.5 | registry-$RegionId-vpc.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.14.5 | July 10, 2025 | Optimized the handling of local cache delays. | This upgrade does not affect your services. |
June 2025
Version | Registry address | Update time | Changes | Impact of changes |
v2.14.4 | registry-$RegionId-vpc.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.14.4 | June 15, 2025 |
| This upgrade does not affect your services. |
v2.14.3 | registry-$RegionId-vpc.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.14.3 | June 11, 2025 |
| This upgrade does not affect your services. |
v2.12.8 | registry-$RegionId-vpc.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.12.8 | June 10, 2025 |
| This upgrade does not affect your services. |
May 2025
Version | Registry address | Update time | Changes | Impact |
v2.14.2 | registry-$RegionId-vpc.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.14.2 | May 30, 2025 |
| This upgrade does not affect your services. |
v2.14.1 | registry-$RegionId-vpc.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.14.1 | May 21, 2025 |
| This upgrade does not affect your services. |
April 2025
Version | Registry address | Update time | Changes | Impact |
v2.14.0 | registry-$RegionId-vpc.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.14.0 | April 24, 2025 |
| This upgrade does not affect your services. |
February 2025
Version | Registry address | Update time | Changes | Impact |
v2.13.4 | registry-$RegionId-vpc.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.13.4 | February 14, 2025 | Reduced the retry rate for scheduling scenarios such as topology spreading for ACS instances. | This upgrade does not affect your services. |
January 2025
Version | Registry address | Update time | Changes | Impact |
v2.13.2 | registry-$RegionId-vpc.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.13.2 | January 21, 2025 |
| This upgrade does not affect your services. |
v2.13.1 | registry-$RegionId-vpc.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.13.1 | January 14, 2025 |
| This upgrade does not affect your services. |
v2.12.6 | registry-$RegionId-vpc.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.12.6 | January 14, 2025 |
| This upgrade does not affect your services. |
v2.13.0 | registry-$RegionId-vpc.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.13.0 | January 4, 2025 |
| This upgrade does not affect your services. |
December 2024
Version | Registry address | Update time | Changes | Impact |
v2.12.4 | registry-$RegionId-vpc.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.12.4 | December 4, 2024 |
| This upgrade does not affect your services |
v2.12.3 | registry-$RegionId-vpc.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.12.3 | December 4, 2024 | Fixed a performance issue when multiple pods attach the same PVC. | This upgrade does not affect your services. |
November 2024
Version | Registry address | Update time | Changes | Impact |
v2.12.2 | registry-$RegionId-vpc.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.12.2 | November 8, 2024 |
| This upgrade does not affect your services. |
September 2024
Version | Registry address | Update time | Changes | Impact |
v2.12.1 | registry-$RegionId-vpc.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.12.1 | September 12, 2024 |
| This upgrade does not affect your services. |
August 2024
Version | Registry address | Update time | Changes | Impact |
v2.12.0 | registry-$RegionId-vpc.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.12.0 | August 2, 2024 |
| This upgrade does not affect your services. |
June 2024
Version | Registry address | Update time | Changes | Impact |
v2.11.6 | registry-$RegionId-vpc.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.11.6 | June 14, 2024 |
| This upgrade does not affect your services. |
May 2024
Version | Registry address | Update time | Changes | Impact |
v2.11.5 | registry-$RegionId-vpc.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.11.5 | May 7, 2024 |
| This upgrade does not affect your services. |
April 2024
Version | Registry address | Update time | Changes | Impact |
v2.11.4 | registry-$RegionId-vpc.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.11.4 | April 17, 2024 |
| This upgrade does not affect your services. |
March 2024
Version | Registry address | Update time | Changes | Impact |
v2.11.3 | registry-$RegionId-vpc.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.11.3 | March 18, 2024 |
| This upgrade does not affect your services. |
v2.10.8 | registry-$RegionId-vpc.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.10.8 | March 12, 2024 |
| This upgrade does not affect your services. |
February 2024
Version | Registry address | Update time | Changes | Impact |
v2.11.0 | registry-$RegionId-vpc.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.11.0 | February 2, 2024 |
| This upgrade does not affect your services. |
January 2024
Version | Registry address | Update time | Changes | Impact |
v2.10.7 | registry-$RegionId-vpc.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.10.7 | January 26, 2024 | Optimized the virtual node registration feature and fixed errors related to region cache during registration. | This upgrade does not affect your services. |
v2.10.6 | registry-$RegionId-vpc.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.10.6 | January 23, 2024 | Fixed an issue where misconfigured selectors in the eci-profile configuration file caused virtual nodes to fail at startup. | This upgrade does not affect your services. |
v2.10.5 | registry-$RegionId-vpc.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.10.5 | January 3, 2024 | Fixed an issue of frequent Endpoint updates in metrics sharding mode. | This upgrade does not affect your services. |
November 2023
Version | Registry address | Update time | Changes | Impact |
v2.10.4 | registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.10.4 | November 27, 2023 |
| This upgrade does not affect your services. |
v2.10.3 | registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.10.3 | November 14, 2023 |
| This upgrade does not affect your services. |
v2.10.2 | registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.10.2 | November 10, 2023 | Fixed a crash issue caused by NetworkPolicy configuration. | This upgrade does not affect your services. |
v2.10.1 | registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.10.1 | November 6, 2023 | Fixed an issue where SidecarSet was dynamically enabled based on whether ack-kruise was installed. | This upgrade does not affect your services. |
October 2023
Version | Registry address | Update time | Changes | Impact |
v2.10.0 | registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.10.0 | October 30, 2023 |
| This upgrade does not affect your services. |
September 2023
Version | Registry address | Update time | Changes | Impact |
v2.9.7 | registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.9.7 | September 1, 2023 | Fixed a system crash issue caused by the underlying instance cleaning itself up after a scheduling failure. | This upgrade does not affect your services. |
August 2023
Version | Registry address | Update time | Changes | Impact |
v2.9.6 | registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.9.6 | August 15, 2023 | Optimized the retry mechanism for the managed Prometheus component when it fails to start. | This upgrade does not affect your services. |
July 2023
Version | Registry address | Update time | Changes | Impact |
v2.9.5 | registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.9.5 | July 27, 2023 | Optimized the speed of attaching pods to virtual nodes. | This upgrade does not affect your services. |
v2.9.4 | registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.9.4 | July 26, 2023 |
| This upgrade does not affect your services. |
June 2023
Version | Registry address | Update time | Changes | Impact |
v2.9.3 | registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.9.3 | June 21, 2023 |
| This upgrade does not affect your services. |
v2.9.2 | registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.9.2 | April 28, 2023 | Fixed an issue where virtual nodes could not be scheduled in ACK Standard Edition. | This upgrade does not affect your services. |
v2.9.1 | registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.9.1 | April 20, 2023 |
| This upgrade does not affect your services. |
v2.8.8 | registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.8.8 | April 27, 2023 | Fixed an issue where pods were also restarted when the component restarted in some scenarios. | This upgrade does not affect your services. |
March 2023
Version | Registry address | Update time | Changes | Impact |
v2.9.0 | registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.9.0 | March 30, 2023 |
| This upgrade does not affect your services. |
v2.8.5 | registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.8.5 | March 2, 2023 | Optimized the handling of instance leaks in rare cases. | This upgrade does not affect your services. |
December 2022
Version | Registry address | Update time | Changes | Impact |
v2.8.4 | registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.8.4 | December 27, 2022 |
| This upgrade does not affect your services. |
November 2022
Version | Registry address | Update time | Changes | Impact |
v2.8.3 | registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.8.3 | November 25, 2022 |
| This upgrade does not affect your services. |
v2.8.1 | registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.8.1 | November 21, 2022 |
| This upgrade does not affect your services. |
v2.8.0 | registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.8.0 | November 21, 2022 |
| This upgrade does not affect your services. |
v2.7.5 | registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.7.5 | November 7, 2022 | Fixed an issue where RBAC resources were not cleared in version v2.7.4. | This upgrade does not affect your services. |
October 2022
Version | Registry address | Update time | Changes | Impact |
v2.7.4 | registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.7.4 | October 28, 2022 |
| This upgrade does not affect your services. |
September 2022
Version | Registry address | Update time | Changes | Impact |
v2.7.3 | registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.7.3 | September 28, 2022 | Fixed an issue where annotations of registered nodes were not updated. | This upgrade does not affect your services. |
v2.7.2 | registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.7.2 | September 13, 2022 |
| This upgrade does not affect your services. |
August 2022
Version | Registry address | Update time | Changes | Impact |
v2.7.1 | registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.7.1 | August 17, 2022 | Fixed an occasional pod creation failure issue. | This upgrade does not affect your services. |
v2.7.0 | registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.7.0 | August 2, 2022 |
| This upgrade does not affect your services. |
July 2022
Version | Registry Address | Update time | Changes | Impact |
v2.6.1 | registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.6.1 | July 5, 2022 | Fixed an occasional freeze issue during startup. | This upgrade does not affect your services. |
June 2022
Version | Registry address | Update time | Changes | Impact |
v2.6.0 | registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.6.0 | June 16, 2022 |
| This upgrade does not affect your services. |
May 2022
Version | Registry address | Update time | Changes | Impact |
v2.5.4 | registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.5.4 | May 20, 2022 | Fixed a crash issue when configuring eci-profile | This upgrade does not affect your services. |
April 2022
Version | Registry address | Update time | Changes | Impact |
v2.5.3 | registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.5.3 | April 28, 2022 |
| This upgrade does not affect your services. |
v2.5.2 | registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.5.2 | April 20, 2022 |
| This upgrade does not affect your services. |
March 2022
Version | Registry address | Update time | Changes | Impact |
v2.5.1 | registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.5.1 | March 31, 2022 |
| This upgrade does not affect your services. |
v2.4.3 | registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.4.3 | March 17, 2022 | Fixed a failure issue with | This upgrade does not affect your services. |
January 2022
Version | Registry address | Update time | Changes | Impact |
v2.4.2 | registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.4.2 | January 11, 2022 |
| This upgrade does not affect your services. |
December 2021
Version | Registry address | Update time | Changes | Impact |
v2.4.0 | registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.4.0 | December 28, 2021 |
| This upgrade does not affect your services. |
November 2021
Version | Registry address | Update time | Changes | Impact |
v2.3.0 | registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.3.0 | November 15, 2021 |
| This upgrade does not affect your services. |
October 2021
Version | Registry address | Update time | Changes | Impact |
v2.2.0 | registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.2.0 | October 26, 2021 | Optimized the query speed for events and statuses. | This upgrade does not affect your services. |
v2.1.0 | registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.1.0 | October 12, 2021 | New Features:
Fixes:
Optimizations:
| This upgrade does not affect your services. |
May 2021
Version | Registry address | Update time | Changes | Impact |
v2.0.0.122-bdb884460-aliyun | registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.0.0.122-bdb884460-aliyun | May 24, 2021 | Fixed an issue of duplicate node creation under concurrent conditions. | This upgrade does not affect your services. |
v2.0.0.113-650b21c48-aliyun | registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.0.0.113-650b21c48-aliyun | May 13, 2021 | Added support for PrivateZone hot updates. | This upgrade does not affect your services. |
v2.0.0.110-49c928287-aliyun | registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.0.0.110-49c928287-aliyun | May 6, 2021 | Added compatibility for NodeSelector scheduling. Pods with | This upgrade does not affect your services. |
April 2021
Version | Registry address | Update time | Changes | Impact |
v2.0.0.102-045a06eb4-aliyun | registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.0.0.102-045a06eb4-aliyun | April 22, 2021 | Fixed a virtual node display issue. | This upgrade does not affect your services. |
v2.0.0.101-cd8bcfa04-aliyun | registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.0.0.101-cd8bcfa04-aliyun | April 16, 2021 | Optimized API calls to PrivateZone to avoid repeated calls to BindZoneVpc. | This upgrade does not affect your services. |
v2.0.0.93-ef86bbfa1-aliyun | registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.0.0.93-ef86bbfa1-aliyun | April 13, 2021 | Modified the value of eciLogtailMacheineGroupKey to be compatible with both ENV and CRD log collection features. | This upgrade does not affect your services. |
v2.0.0.90-15deb126e-aliyun | registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.0.0.90-15deb126e-aliyun | April 6, 2021 | Added the ECI Profile feature. | This upgrade does not affect your services. |
March 2021
Version | Registry address | Update time | Changes | Impact |
v2.0.0.86-9005a977d-aliyun | registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.0.0.86-9005a977d-aliyun | March 17, 2021 |
| This upgrade does not affect your services. |
February 2021
Version | Registry address | Update time | Changes | Impact |
v2.0.0.80-f9a46a994-aliyun | registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.0.0.80-f9a46a994-aliyun | February 25, 2021 | Optimized the CreatePod status check feature: A pod is created only when its status is pending. | This upgrade does not affect your services. |
v2.0.0.76-6e9e19bd5-aliyun | registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.0.0.76-6e9e19bd5-aliyun | February 22, 2021 |
| This upgrade does not affect your services. |
December 2020
Version | Registry address | Update time | Changes | Impact |
v2.0.0.618-7fd50d738-aliyun | registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.0.0.618-7fd50d738-aliyun | December 4, 2020 |
| Confirm that the VPC and security group for the ECI pod are correctly configured and can access the cluster's API server. Otherwise, the pod will remain in the Pending state. |
September 2020
Version | Registry address | Update time | Changes | Impact |
v1.0.0.10-aliyun | registry.cn-hangzhou.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v1.0.0.10-aliyun | September 21, 2020 | Added support for extending cluster elasticity by running application pods as serverless containers (ECI). | This upgrade does not affect your services. |
March 2020
Version | Registry address | Update time | Changes | Impact |
v1.0.0.2-aliyun | registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v1.0.0.2-aliyun | March 12, 2020 |
| If your virtual-nodes-eci controller is deployed as a deployment, delete the ECI on the virtual-kubelet node before you update or redeploy the component. |