Container Service for Kubernetes:ACK Virtual Node component introduction and release notes

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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 protocol conversion from ECI to ACS.

• Optimizations:

  • Reduced program memory usage by approximately 40%.

  • Improved the success rate of ACS pod creation.

  • Adjusted the ephemeral-storage capacity of virtual nodes to 60,000 Ti to prevent scheduling failures.

• Bug fixes:

  • Fixed an issue where disk expansion failed for ACS GPU pods after a disk was mounted.

  • Fixed an issue where in-place container restarts failed.

  • Fixed an issue where the PodNetworking configuration did not take effect in ACK clusters.

This upgrade does not affect your services.

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v2.14.6

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

July 21, 2025

• Fixed an issue where PrivateZone records with specific names were deleted.

• Fixed an issue where the ContainerInstanceCreated condition was occasionally not updated.

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 local cache latency.

This upgrade does not affect your services.

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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 and deleting virtual nodes as unschedulable.

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

• Fixed an issue where pods occasionally remained in the Pending state in abnormal situations.

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

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

• Fixed an issue where pods occasionally remained in the Pending state after multiple creation retries.

• Fixed an issue introduced in v2.14.0 where completed ACS instances could not be deleted.

• Fixed an issue where pod status updates were not retried upon failure in extreme cases.

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

• Fixed an issue where occasional crashes occurred when updating pod status.

• Fixed an issue where disk creation leaks occurred in some WaitForFirstConsumer scenarios.

This upgrade does not affect your services.

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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 issue of insufficient permissions when mounting disks for ACS GPU instances in ACK clusters.

• Fixed memory leak and startup failure issues in the log controller.

• Optimized the retry mechanism for failed pod creations.

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

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

• Fixed an issue where the PersistentVolumeClaim status was not updated after an instance disk was expanded.

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

This upgrade does not affect your services.

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v2.14.0

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

April 24, 2025

• When a zone fails, the corresponding virtual node is automatically switched to an unschedulable state.

• ACS instances now support using the cluster's default time zone.

• ACS instances now support the nodePublishSecretRef configuration for PVs.

• Optimized the in-place hot-swapping capability for CPU resources in ACS instances.

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

• Fixed a parsing error caused by an invalid eci-profile configuration format.

• Fixed a memory leak issue in the log module.

• Fixed an issue where disk creation leaks occurred in some WaitForFirstConsumer scenarios.

This upgrade does not affect your services.

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v2.13.4

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

February 14, 2025

Optimized the retry rate for scheduling scenarios such as ACS instance topology spreading.

This upgrade does not affect your services.

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v2.13.2

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

January 21, 2025

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

• Fixed an issue where ACS instances were updated unnecessarily in some scenarios.

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

• Fixed an issue where pods occasionally remained in the Pending state during large-scale creation of ACS instances.

• Fixed an issue where creation of an ACS instance was not retried when a "disk in use" error occurred.

• Fixed an issue where the instance specification continuously increased during ACS instance creation retries.

• Fixed issues with exec, attach, and port-forward operations for ACS instances.

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

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

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

• Fixed an issue where the pod status was updated unnecessarily in specific situations.

• Fixed an issue where startup failure information from the ECI instance layer was not updated to the pod.

• Fixed an issue where ImageCache resources were cleared by the kubectl delete all command.

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

• Added support for ACS computing power.

• Added support for volume-related metrics.

• Fixed an issue with using WaitForFirstConsumer when the managed csi-provisioner component is installed on an ACK cluster.

• Optimized the efficiency of retrieving pod logs when ACS and ECI instances are deleted.

• Optimized pod deletion efficiency.

This upgrade does not affect your services.

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v2.12.4

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

December 4, 2024

• Fixed an issue where pods remained in the Pending state due to a failure to associate with an instance in extreme cases.

• Fixed an issue where the WaitForFirstConsumer feature was unavailable in Heyuan Automobile Compliance Cloud.

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 that occurred when multiple pods mounted the same PVC.

This upgrade does not affect your services.

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v2.12.2

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

November 8, 2024

• Fixed an issue where the eci-profile selector did not take effect when SidecarSet was used.

• Fixed an issue where metric timestamps were inaccurate.

This upgrade does not affect your services.

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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 of virtual nodes to 50,000.

• Fixed an issue where the stats/summary of virtual nodes contained deleted pods.

• Fixed an issue where nodes with the "virtual" prefix were incorrectly updated.

This upgrade does not affect your services.

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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.

• Optimized the time required for virtual nodes to create pods in large-scale scenarios.

• Fixed an issue where the same volume in a SidecarSet was injected into a pod multiple times.

• Fixed an issue where update operations were occasionally lost during pod creation.

• Fixed an issue where pods occasionally encountered a MissingParameter error in large-scale scenarios.

• Fixed an issue where partial events were lost when pods were deleted in extreme cases.

This upgrade does not affect your services.

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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 container-level partition read/write metrics were lost.

• Optimized the following two issues in large-scale pod scenarios:

  • Virtual node startup time.

  • Memory consumption for virtual node metric collection.

This upgrade does not affect your services.

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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 in versions v2.11.0 to v2.11.4 where the container tag was missing from some monitoring data.

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

This upgrade does not affect your services.

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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 pod file system monitoring data was lost.

• Virtual nodes in ACK One fleet clusters now support the managed Simple Log Service feature.

This upgrade does not affect your services.

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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 where ARMS could not be used in the Hangzhou Finance Cloud region.

• Optimized the performance of virtual nodes when creating pods in batches.

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

• Fixed an issue where requests to port 10250 failed in ACK dedicated clusters.

• Optimized the cleanup logic for virtual nodes in extreme cases to enhance their self-maintenance capabilities.

This upgrade does not affect your services.

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v2.11.0

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

February 2, 2024

• New features

  • Added support for creating Windows instances.

  • Native scheduling semantics now support Windows nodes.

  • Added support for enabling the ECI SysOM feature, which provides observability for resources such as kernels.

  • Added support for Container Network File System (CNFS).

  • Added support for ephemeral volumes.

  • Added support for ephemeral containers.

  • Added a notification mechanism for the graceful shutdown of Spot Instances.

• Optimizations

  • Optimized the efficiency of certificate generation during ECI pod creation.

  • The metrics data query interface now supports filtering by NodeName.

• Fixes

  • Fixed a null pointer issue in ImageCacheController.

  • Fixed an issue of duplicate metrics for some containers on virtual nodes.

This upgrade does not affect your services.

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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 the registration process.

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 a misconfigured selector in the eci-profile configuration file caused the virtual node 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.

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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 degradation issue when creating records in PrivateZone.

• Fixed an issue where using an existing log project did not take effect when creating a cluster.

• Fixed a restart issue caused by CSR cleanup in specific situations.

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

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

• Fixed an issue where records were not created for some new services after PrivateZone was repeatedly enabled.

• Fixed an issue where some PVC resize requests were not executed after the PVC Controller was repeatedly enabled.

• Fixed an issue where some metrics were lost during retrieval.

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.

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v2.10.0

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

October 30, 2023

• New features

  • For Kubernetes v1.22 and later, elastic workloads support Kubernetes scheduling semantics, including topology spreading, node affinity, and anti-affinity.

  • Added support for the SidecarSet feature.

  • Added support for the NetworkPolicy feature.

  • Added support for Dadi P2P image acceleration.

  • Added support for the eBPF DNSCache mechanism.

  • Added support for the actual container instance specification metric (container_instance_resource_limits).

  • Added support for GPU Monitoring 2.0.

• Optimizations

  • Optimized the synchronization of the underlying instance's Scheduling status.

  • By default, virtual nodes in new ACK Serverless clusters do not include the virtual-kubelet.io/provider label.

  • Optimized the speed of attaching pods to virtual nodes.

  • Optimized Headless Service records in PrivateZone.

  • Optimized the retry mechanism for failed installations of managed Prometheus.

  • Optimized log output.

  • The MetricsVpcNet feature gate is now enabled by default.

• Fixes

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

  • Fixed an issue where pods were scheduled to cordoned virtual nodes.

  • Fixed an issue where pods occasionally remained in the Pending state under high loads.

This upgrade does not affect your services.

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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.

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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 upon startup failure.

This upgrade does not affect your services.

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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

• The WaitForFirstConsumer feature gate is now enabled by default.

• Fixed an issue where the KUBERNETES_SERVICE_PORT_HTTPS environment variable in pods was incorrect.

• Fixed an issue where Arm inventory information expired.

This upgrade does not affect your services.

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v2.9.3

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

June 21, 2023

• Enabled full support for Arm nodes in ACK clusters.

• Fixed an issue with the NodeName DownwardAPI reference for Arm node workloads.

• Fixed an issue in v2.9.x where custom labels and annotations could not be set for nodes.

• Fixed a component crash issue 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 where enabling the WaitForFirstConsumer feature caused pods to remain in the Pending state in some cases.

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

• Fixed a virtual node flapping issue.

• Fixed an issue where the instance scheduling failure status was not synchronized in Fail Fast mode.

• Optimized the behavior of Headless Services in PrivateZone.

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 restarted when the component was restarted in some scenarios.

This upgrade does not affect your services.

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v2.9.0

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

March 30, 2023

• Added support for enabling ARM nodes in ACK Serverless clusters.

• Added support for creating a new type of container instance with the acs-visible-only property.

• Added the ContainerInstanceCreated condition to indicate the creation status of the underlying instance.

• Added the container_spec_cpu_shares metric.

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

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

• Optimized the configuration logic and failure prompts for DNSConfig.

• Optimized the event and status synchronization of underlying container instances.

• Optimized the scheduling logic when Pod.Spec.NodeName is manually specified.

• Optimized the default number of log lines to 500.

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

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 instance leak issues in extreme cases.

This upgrade does not affect your services.

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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 occasional pod status rollback issue.

• Fixed an issue where PrivateZone could not resolve Headless Service domain names.

• Fixed a potential resource leak issue when deleting a pod with the GracePeriod=0 parameter.

This upgrade does not affect your services.

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v2.8.3

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

November 25, 2022

• Fixed an issue with incorrect PrivateZone records when local domain names were enabled.

• Fixed an issue where built-in environment variables overwrote user-defined environment variables.

• Fixed an issue where only the first ImagePullSecret took effect when multiple ImagePullSecrets were configured.

• Fixed a crash issue when the APIService was unavailable.

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

• Fixed a CPU load metrics display issue.

• Optimized the display of reason information when pod creation fails.

• Pod creation is now automatically retried if the error code is MissingParameter.

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

• Added support for PodNetworking.

• Added support for metrics related to dynamic PVC expansion.

• Fixed a PrivateZone error that occurred when the ServiceName of a StatefulSet was empty.

• Fixed an issue where PrivateZone failed to delete a ZoneRecord when there were many Endpoints.

• Optimized an issue where ContainerDiskPressure frequently appeared as False.

• Optimized an issue where an ErrPodNotFound event occurred when a pod was in the Terminating state.

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 in v2.7.4 where RBAC resources were not cleaned up.

This upgrade does not affect your services.

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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 speed.

• Fixed an issue where idempotent pod creation failed in some cases.

This upgrade does not affect your services.

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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 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

• Fixed an issue where idempotent pod creation occasionally failed.

• Fixed an issue where alert sending failed when the logging feature was enabled through eci-profile.

This upgrade does not affect your services.

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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

• Added support for installing the managed logging component.

• Added support for installing managed Prometheus.

• Added support for reporting underlying ECI instance failures.

• Optimized the logic for idempotent creation of ECI instances.

• Optimized the pod-to-node attachment mechanism.

This upgrade does not affect your services.

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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.

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v2.6.0

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

June 16, 2022

• New Features:

  • Added support for custom kubelet service ports.

  • Added support for Pod Readiness Gates in Kubernetes 1.16.

  • Added support for CSI Node in Kubernetes 1.16.

  • WaitForFirstConsumer now supports creating disks from disk snapshots.

  • Added support for NodeName DownwardAPI.

• Fixes:

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

  • Fixed an issue where the user log storage TTL was overwritten.

  • Fixed an issue where error logs were sent to user log storage.

• Optimizations:

  • Optimized client-go local cache synchronization.

  • Optimized the virtual node registration and update logic.

  • Optimized the ECI event reporting mechanism.

  • Optimized the HTTP request body size.

This upgrade does not affect your services.

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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 selectors.

This upgrade does not affect your services.

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v2.5.3

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

April 28, 2022

• Fixed an occasional crash issue when retrieving metrics data.

• Fixed an occasional issue where pods could not connect to the API Server.

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

• Fixed a PrivateZone startup failure issue.

• Fixed an issue where the exec command would freeze on Kubernetes 1.16 clusters.

• Fixed a metrics data retrieval failure issue.

• Fixed a potential status and event synchronization issue.

This upgrade does not affect your services.

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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 image caches.

• Optimized the performance of request data to the API Server.

• Optimized the speed of creating pods at a large scale.

• Optimized metrics data retrieval latency.

• Fixed a memory surge issue when concurrently requesting metrics data.

• Fixed an issue of duplicate metrics data being returned.

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

• Fixed an issue where the SecretRef for CSI did not take effect.

• Fixed failure or crash issues with logs and exec.

• Fixed a failure issue when running in an environment without Internet access.

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 an issue where logs and exec failed in Kubernetes 1.16.

This upgrade does not affect your services.

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v2.4.2

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

January 11, 2022

• Fixed a status inconsistency issue between the cluster and ECI.

• Fixed an issue where Prometheus monitoring could not retrieve data.

• Fixed an issue where some annotations in the ECI Profile did not take effect.

This upgrade does not affect your services.

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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 association mode.

• Optimized the efficiency of calling ECI APIs.

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

• Fixed an occasional status inconsistency issue for Job-type pods.

• Fixed an occasional status inconsistency issue between cluster pods and ECI pods.

• Fixed an occasional issue where the SecretRef configuration for CephFS and FlexVolume did not take effect.

• Fixed an occasional crash issue caused by an annotation.

This upgrade does not affect your services.

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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 token volume projection.

• Added support for enabling dual-stack IP mode.

• Added support for setting different overlay network types.

• Fixed a crash issue in some situations.

• Optimized pod creation speed.

• Fixed a pod scheduling issue.

• Fixed an issue where ECI instances were slow to be revoked.

This upgrade does not affect your services.

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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

This upgrade does not affect your services.

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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 an issue where nodes were repeatedly created 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 the NodeSelector scheduling method. Pods with type=virtual-kubelet are now managed by VK for creation.

This upgrade does not affect your services.

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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

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 ENV and CRD log collection features.

This upgrade will 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.

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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 /etc/hosts by adding Domain and DNS annotations.

• Reduced the clusterrolebinding check time.

• Optimized the leader election mechanism for multiple components.

This upgrade does not affect your services.

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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 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

• Added support for PProf debugging.

• Added support for a leader election control switch.

• Updated ClusterRole for EndPointSlice.

• Added a Kubernetes version annotation to pods.

• Added support for configuring different webhooks for different Kubernetes versions.

This upgrade does not affect your services.

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v2.0.0.618-7fd50d738-aliyun

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

December 4, 2020

• Improved pod compatibility.

• Added support for leader election logic for multiple VK Controllers.

Confirm that the VPC and security group configurations for ECI pods are correct and that they can access the cluster API server. Otherwise, pods will remain in a 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

Added support for extending cluster elasticity by running application pods as serverless containers (ECI).

This upgrade does not affect your services.

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v1.0.0.2-aliyun

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

March 12, 2020

• Deployed the virtual-nodes-eci controller as a StatefulSet to facilitate modifying the number of replicas to create multiple VK virtual nodes and support larger-scale ECI pods.

• Node names changed to virtual-node-eci-$n.

• Added support for accessing ClusterIP services.

• Added support for Spot preemptible instance types.

• Added support for mounting disk volumes using CSI.

If your virtual-nodes-eci controller is deployed as a deployment, delete the ECI instances on the virtual-kubelet node before you update or redeploy the component.