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Container Service for Kubernetes:[Discontinued] appcenter

Last Updated:Mar 26, 2026
Important

Application Center is deprecated. No new versions of appcenter will be released, and ACK has stopped providing feature updates. Migrate your existing applications to ACK One GitOps. For migration guidance, see Best practices for ACK One GitOps.

The appcenter component enables centralized management of application deployment and lifecycle across multiple clusters. You can manage it in the Application Center module of the Container Service for Kubernetes (ACK) console.

Deprecation timeline

Date Change
October 31, 2023 Creating new applications in Application Center is no longer supported.
December 31, 2023 Application Center is fully deprecated. Existing applications can no longer be maintained, and existing businesses are affected.

Overview

Application Center provides a unified portal for managing applications across ACK clusters. With Application Center, you can:

  • View the global deployment status of all your applications.

  • Track the deployment status and changes of all Kubernetes subresources allocated to each application.

  • Deploy applications in ACK clusters using Git and Helm charts, based on application versions.

  • Publish or roll back applications deployed in ACK clusters.

Release notes

The following table lists the historical changelog for the appcenter component. No further versions will be released.

October 2022

Version Image address Release date Description Impact
v2.4.14.1-d27daa8-aliyun registry.cn-hangzhou.aliyuncs.com/acs/appcenter-installer:v2.4.14.1-d27daa8-aliyun 2022-10-27 Fixed an issue where clusters running Kubernetes 1.24 could not be added to Application Center. No impact on workloads

August 2022

Version Image address Release date Description Impact
v2.2.5.4-8ec6d31-aliyun registry.cn-hangzhou.aliyuncs.com/acs/appcenter-installer:v2.2.5.4-8ec6d31-aliyun 2022-08-23 Improved the feature for using Resource Access Management (RAM) users and triggers to update applications. No impact on workloads

July 2022

Version Image address Release date Description Impact
v2.2.5.2-df44050-aliyun registry.cn-hangzhou.aliyuncs.com/acs/appcenter-installer:v2.2.5.2-df44050-aliyun 2022-07-18 Added support for using AccessKey pairs to access orchestration templates. No impact on workloads

March 2022

Version Image address Release date Description Impact
v2.2.5.1-7fcb8c2-aliyun registry.cn-hangzhou.aliyuncs.com/acs/appcenter-installer:v2.2.5.1-7fcb8c2-aliyun 2022-03-31 Added support for automatic application image updates. No impact on workloads
v2.2.5.0-35d527f-aliyun registry.cn-hangzhou.aliyuncs.com/acs/appcenter-installer:v2.2.5.0-35d527f-aliyun 2022-03-15 Patched Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) vulnerabilities. No impact on workloads

January 2022

Version Image address Release date Description Impact
v2.1.3.3-7f4fce2-aliyun registry.cn-hangzhou.aliyuncs.com/acs/appcenter-installer:v2.1.3.3-7f4fce2-aliyun 2022-01-11 Fixed an issue where templates could not be associated with RAM users when using RAM users and triggers to auto-update applications deployed from templates. No impact on workloads

December 2021

Version Image address Release date Description Impact
v2.1.3.2-308e5f3-aliyun registry.cn-hangzhou.aliyuncs.com/acs/appcenter-installer:v2.1.3.2-308e5f3-aliyun 2021-12-01 Fixed an issue where the component did not run as expected due to network policies. No impact on workloads

October 2021

Version Image address Release date Description Impact
v2.1.3.1-64ae609-aliyun registry.cn-hangzhou.aliyuncs.com/acs/appcenter-installer:v2.1.3.1-64ae609-aliyun 2021-10-14 Improved stability of the appcenter component. No impact on workloads

June 2020

Version Image address Release date Description Impact
v1.0.1.1-a97c8f0-aliyun registry.cn-hangzhou.aliyuncs.com/acs/appcenter-installer:v1.0.1.1-a97c8f0-aliyun 2020-06-22 New features: deploying an application to multiple clusters at a time; application triggers. No impact on workloads