aliyun-acr-acceleration-suite is a client plug-in deployed as a DaemonSet on worker nodes. It works with Container Registry to automatically convert source images into accelerated images. When a pull request arrives, the system fetches and decompresses only the data the workload needs — without downloading or decompressing the full image — without interrupting services. This reduces application startup time and eliminates unnecessary data transfer.
Supported environments
Cluster types:
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Container Service for Kubernetes (ACK) managed clusters or ACK dedicated clusters (v1.16.9 or later)
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ACK Edge clusters
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ACK Serverless clusters
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ACK Lingjun clusters (v1.26.3 or later)
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Alibaba Cloud Container Compute Service (ACS) clusters
Operating systems:
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Alibaba Cloud Linux 2.1903
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Alibaba Cloud Linux 3.2104
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Alibaba Cloud Linux 3.2104 LTS 64-bit Arm Edition
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Alibaba Cloud Linux UEFI 2.1903
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CentOS 7.9
Usage notes
For setup and configuration, see Load resources of a container image on demand.
Release notes
March 2025
| Version | Image address | Release date | Description | Impact |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0.2.10 | registry-cn-hangzhou-vpc.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/aliyun-acr-acceleration-suite:v0.3.0.1-e2dd3e0-aliyun |
2025-03-17 | The component's webhook no longer schedules its managed containers to Lingjun node pools. | No impact on workloads |
July 2024
| Version | Image address | Release date | Description | Impact |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0.2.9 | registry-cn-hangzhou-vpc.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/aliyun-acr-acceleration-suite:v0.3.0.1-e2dd3e0-aliyun |
2024-07-17 | Added support for ACK Lingjun clusters. | No impact on workloads |
| 0.2.8 | registry-cn-hangzhou-vpc.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/aliyun-acr-acceleration-suite:v0.3.0.1-e2dd3e0-aliyun |
2024-07-17 | Added support for ACK Edge clusters. | No impact on workloads |
| 0.2.7 | registry-cn-hangzhou-vpc.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/aliyun-acr-acceleration-suite:v0.3.0.1-e2dd3e0-aliyun |
2024-07-17 | The webhook can now configure multi-arch images as their accelerated equivalents. | No impact on workloads |
February 2024
| Version | Image address | Release date | Description | Impact |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0.2.6 | registry-vpc.cn-hangzhou.aliyuncs.com/acr-toolkit/aliyun-acr-acceleration-suite:v0.3.0.0-dd959f1-aliyun |
2024-02-19 | Only the deployment template is modified to allow high-priority pods to be scheduled. Added support for installation on ARM-based nodes. | No impact on workloads |
September 2023
| Version | Image address | Release date | Description | Impact |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0.2.5 | registry-vpc.cn-hangzhou.aliyuncs.com/acr-toolkit/aliyun-acr-acceleration-suite:v0.3.0.0-dd959f1-aliyun |
2023-09-07 | Optimized role-based access control (RBAC) permissions. | No impact on workloads |
August 2022
| Version | Image address | Release date | Description | Impact |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0.2.3 | registry-vpc.cn-hangzhou.aliyuncs.com/acr-toolkit/aliyun-acr-acceleration-suite:v0.3.0.0-127f0eb-aliyun |
2022-08-02 | ACK clusters using the containerd runtime can now use the on-demand image loading feature. Added on-demand image loading support for ack-virtual-node and ACK Serverless clusters. | No impact on workloads |
June 2022
| Version | Image address | Release date | Description | Impact |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0.2.2 | registry-vpc.cn-hangzhou.aliyuncs.com/acr-toolkit/aliyun-acr-acceleration-suite:v0.2.0.0-b01f3302-aliyun |
2022-06-08 | Fixed an issue where ACK clusters running Kubernetes 1.22 failed to sync secrets for image pulls. Mutating webhooks no longer process update operations, preventing unintended mutations. Stability improvements: added requests and limits to pod configurations; set webhook timeout to 5 seconds; set webhook cache time-to-live (TTL) to 60 seconds. |
No impact on workloads |
March 2021
| Version | Image address | Release date | Description | Impact |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0.2.0 | registry-vpc.cn-hangzhou.aliyuncs.com/acr-toolkit/aliyun-acr-acceleration-suite:v0.2.0.0-b745758c-aliyun |
2021-03-15 | Added HTTP readiness and liveness probes for mutating webhooks. Labels can now be added to workloads to enable on-demand image loading: set the label key k8s.aliyun.com/image-accelerate-mode to the value on-demand. For details, see Load resources of a container image on demand. |
No impact on workloads |
November 2020
| Version | Image address | Release date | Description | Impact |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0.1.0 | registry.cn-hangzhou.aliyuncs.com/acs/aliyun-acr-acceleration-suite:v0.1.0.0-00e2f5e1-aliyun |
2020-11-19 | Initial release. Supports management of image storage plug-ins, configuration of access to image repositories, and automatic injection of accelerated images into pods. | We recommend that you install and upgrade the component during off-peak hours. |