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, its usage notes, and its change history.
Component introduction
ACK Virtual Node is based on the open source project Virtual Kubelet. It extends support for providers and is highly optimized to seamlessly connect Kubernetes with the computing power of Elastic Container Instance (ECI) and Container Compute Service (ACS). This allows Kubernetes clusters to easily gain significant elasticity without being limited by the compute capacity of their nodes. You can flexibly create ECI pods or ACS pods on demand without planning cluster capacity.
ACK Virtual Node runs application pods as serverless containers. This provides elasticity, eliminates the need for capacity planning, and offers on-demand usage with pay-as-you-go billing. It significantly improves deployment elasticity and reduces computing costs for scenarios such as Job tasks, CI/CD, Spark big data computing, and elastic online applications.
For more information about ECI pods, see ECI Pod overview.

For more information about ACS pods, see ACS Pod instance overview.
Usage notes
For more information about how to deploy the ACK Virtual Node component from the App Catalog, see Schedule pods to run on ECI.
Change history
January 2026
Version Number | Image | Date | Changes | Impact |
v2.16.2 | registry-$RegionId-vpc.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.16.2 | January 28, 2026 |
| This upgrade does not affect your services. |
v2.16.1 | registry-$RegionId-vpc.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.16.1 | January 27, 2026 |
| This upgrade does not affect your services. |
v2.16.0 | registry-$RegionId-vpc.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.16.0 | January 06, 2026 |
| This upgrade does not affect your services. |
December 2025
Version | Image | Modification Time | Changes | Impact |
v2.15.8 | registry-$RegionId-vpc.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.15.8 | December 08, 2025 |
| This upgrade does not affect your services. |
November 2025
Version | Image | Modification 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 05, 2025 |
| This upgrade does not affect your services. |
October 2025
Version | Image | Modification time | Changes | Impact |
v2.15.5 | registry-$RegionId-vpc.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.15.5 | October 20, 2025 |
| This upgrade does not affect your services. |
September 2025
Version | Image | Last Modified | Changes | Impact |
v2.15.4 | registry-$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-$RegionId-vpc.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.15.1 | September 09, 2025 |
| This upgrade does not affect your services. |
August 2025
Version number | Image | Modification Time | Changes | Impact |
v2.15.0 | registry-$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 | Image | Date | 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 local cache latency. | This upgrade does not affect your services. |
June 2025
Version | Image | Modification Time | Changes | Impact |
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-$RegionId-vpc.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.12.8 | June 10, 2025 |
| This upgrade does not affect your services. |
May 2025
Version | Image | Modification time | Changes | Impact |
v2.14.2 | registry-$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-$RegionId-vpc.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.14.1 | May 21, 2025 |
| This upgrade does not affect your services. |
April 2025
Version | Image | Modification Time | Changes | Impact |
v2.14.0 | registry-$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 | Image | Modification Time | Changes | Impact |
v2.13.4 | registry-$RegionId-vpc.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.13.4 | February 14, 2025 | Optimized the retry rate for scheduling scenarios such as topology-based discretization of ACS instances. | This upgrade does not affect your services. |
January 2025
Version | Image | Modification Time | Changes | Impact |
v2.13.2 | registry-$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-$RegionId-vpc.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.13.0 | January 04, 2025 |
| This upgrade does not affect your services. |
December 2024
Version | Image | Modification Time | Changes | Impact |
v2.12.4 | registry-$RegionId-vpc.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.12.4 | December 04, 2024 |
| This upgrade does not affect your services. |
v2.12.3 | registry-$RegionId-vpc.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.12.3 | December 04, 2024 | Fixed a performance issue when multiple pods mount the same PVC. | This upgrade does not affect your services. |
November 2024
Version | Registry Address | Update Time | Changes | Impact |
v2.12.2 | registry-$RegionId-vpc.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.12.2 | November 08, 2024 |
| This upgrade does not affect your services. |
September 2024
Version | Image | Date | Changes | Impact |
v2.12.1 | registry-$RegionId-vpc.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.12.1 | September 12, 2024 |
| This upgrade does not affect your services. |
August 2024
Version | Image | Modification time | Changes | Impact |
v2.12.0 | registry-$RegionId-vpc.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.12.0 | August 02, 2024 |
| This upgrade does not affect your services. |
June 2024
Version | Registry Address | Modification Time | Changes | Impact |
v2.11.6 | registry-$RegionId-vpc.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.11.6 | June 14, 2024 |
| This upgrade does not affect your services. |
May 2024
Version | Image | Modification Time | Changes | Impact |
v2.11.5 | registry-$RegionId-vpc.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.11.5 | May 07, 2024 |
| This upgrade does not affect your services. |
April 2024
Version | Image | Date | Changes | Impact |
v2.11.4 | registry-$RegionId-vpc.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.11.4 | April 17, 2024 |
| This upgrade does not affect your services. |
March 2024
Version | Image | Date | Changes | Impact |
v2.11.3 | registry-$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-$RegionId-vpc.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.10.8 | March 12, 2024 |
| This upgrade does not affect your services. |
February 2024
Version | Image | Date | Changes | Impact |
v2.11.0 | registry-$RegionId-vpc.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.11.0 | February 02, 2024 |
| This upgrade does not affect your services. |
January 2024
Version | Image | Modification Time | Changes | Impact |
v2.10.7 | registry-$RegionId-vpc.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.10.7 | January 26, 2024 | Optimized the virtual node registration feature and fixed a region cache-related error during registration. | This upgrade does not affect your services. |
v2.10.6 | registry-$RegionId-vpc.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.10.6 | January 23, 2024 | Fixed an issue where a misconfigured selector in the eci-profile configuration file caused the virtual node to fail to start. | This upgrade does not affect your services. |
v2.10.5 | registry-$RegionId-vpc.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.10.5 | January 03, 2024 | Fixed an issue where the Endpoint was frequently updated in metrics sharding mode. | This upgrade does not affect your services. |
November 2023
Version | Image | Change Time | Changes | Impact |
v2.10.4 | registry-vpc.$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.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.10.1 | November 06, 2023 | Fixed an issue where SidecarSet was dynamically enabled based on whether ack-kruise was installed. | This upgrade does not affect your services. |
October 2023
Version | Image | Modification Time | Changes | Impact |
v2.10.0 | registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.10.0 | October 30, 2023 |
| This upgrade does not affect your services. |
September 2023
Version Number | Image | Modification Time | Changes | Impact |
v2.9.7 | registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.9.7 | September 01, 2023 | Fixed a system crash issue caused by the self-cleanup of underlying instances after a scheduling failure. | This upgrade does not affect your services. |
August 2023
Version | Image | Date | Changes | Impact |
v2.9.6 | registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.9.6 | August 15, 2023 | Optimized the retry feature for failed startups of the managed Prometheus component. | This upgrade does not affect your services. |
July 2023
Version | Image | Date | 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 | Image | Modification 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 also restarted when the component restarted in some scenarios. | This upgrade does not affect your services. |
March 2023
Version | Image | Modification 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 02, 2023 | Optimized an instance leak issue in extreme cases. | This upgrade does not affect your services. |
December 2022
Version | Image | Modification Time | Changes | Impact |
v2.8.4 | registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.8.4 | December 27, 2022 |
| This upgrade does not affect your services. |
November 2022
Version | Image | Modified time | Changes | Impact |
v2.8.3 | registry-vpc.$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.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.7.5 | November 07, 2022 | Fixed an issue in version v2.7.4 where RBAC resources were not cleaned up. | This upgrade does not affect your services. |
October 2022
Version | Image | Modification Time | Changes | Impact |
v2.7.4 | registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.7.4 | October 28, 2022 |
| This upgrade does not affect your services. |
September 2022
Version | Image | Modification 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 | Image | Modification 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 02, 2022 |
| This upgrade does not affect your services. |
July 2022
Version | Image | Modification Time | Changes | Impact |
v2.6.1 | registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.6.1 | July 05, 2022 | Fixed an occasional freeze issue during startup. | This upgrade does not affect your services. |
June 2022
Version | Image | Modification Time | Changes | Impact |
v2.6.0 | registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.6.0 | June 16, 2022 |
| This upgrade does not affect your services. |
May 2022
Version | Image | Modification Time | Changes | Impact |
v2.5.4 | registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.5.4 | May 20, 2022 | Fixed a crash issue when configuring eci-profile | This upgrade does not affect your services. |
April 2022
Version | Image | Date | Changes | Impact |
v2.5.3 | registry-vpc.$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.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.5.2 | April 20, 2022 |
| This upgrade does not affect your services. |
March 2022
Version | Image | Modification Time | Changes | Impact |
v2.5.1 | registry-vpc.$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.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.4.3 | March 17, 2022 | Fixed a failure issue with | This upgrade does not affect your services. |
January 2022
Version | Registry Address | Date | Changes | Impact |
v2.4.2 | registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.4.2 | January 11, 2022 |
| This upgrade does not affect your services. |
December 2021
Version | Image | Date | Changes | Impact |
v2.4.0 | registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.4.0 | December 28, 2021 |
| This upgrade does not affect your services. |
November 2021
Version | Registry Address | Modification Time | Changes | Impact |
v2.3.0 | registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.3.0 | November 15, 2021 |
| This upgrade does not affect your services. |
October 2021
Version | Image | Modification 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 number | Image | Modification Time | Changes | Impact |
v2.0.0.122-bdb884460-aliyun | registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.0.0.122-bdb884460-aliyun | May 24, 2021 | Fixed an issue where nodes were repeatedly created under concurrent conditions. | This upgrade does not affect your services. |
v2.0.0.113-650b21c48-aliyun | registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.0.0.113-650b21c48-aliyun | May 13, 2021 | Added support for PrivateZone rolling updates. | This upgrade does not affect your services. |
v2.0.0.110-49c928287-aliyun | registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.0.0.110-49c928287-aliyun | May 06, 2021 | Added compatibility for the NodeSelector scheduling method. Pods with | This upgrade does not affect your services. |
April 2021
Version | Image | Date | Changes | Impact |
v2.0.0.102-045a06eb4-aliyun | registry-vpc.$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 ENV and CRD log collection features. | This upgrade does not affect your services. |
v2.0.0.90-15deb126e-aliyun | registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.0.0.90-15deb126e-aliyun | April 06, 2021 | Added the ECI Profile feature. | This upgrade does not affect your services. |
March 2021
Version | Image | Modification Time | Changes | Impact |
v2.0.0.86-9005a977d-aliyun | registry-vpc.$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 | Image | Modification 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 | Image | Modification Time | Changes | Impact |
v2.0.0.618-7fd50d738-aliyun | registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.0.0.618-7fd50d738-aliyun | December 04, 2020 |
| Confirm that the VPC and security group of the ECI pod are correctly configured and can access the cluster API server. Otherwise, the pod will remain in the waiting state. |
September 2020
Version | Image | Modification Time | Changes | Impact |
v1.0.0.10-aliyun | registry.cn-hangzhou.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v1.0.0.10-aliyun | September 21, 2020 | Added support for extending cluster elasticity by running application pods as serverless containers (ECI). | This upgrade does not affect your services. |
March 2020
Version | Image | Modification Time | Changes | Impact |
v1.0.0.2-aliyun | registry-vpc.$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 updating or redeploying the component. |