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Container Service for Kubernetes:Introduction and release notes for the edge-cloud-provider-manager component

Last Updated:Mar 26, 2026

edge-cloud-provider-manager (ECPM) is a managed component of ACK edge clusters. It is used to send trace data to downstream Alibaba Cloud services and handles cloud resource provisioning for edge networking and load balancing.

Capabilities

ECPM integrates with the following Alibaba Cloud services: Edge Load Balancer (ELB), Edge Node Service (ENS), Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Elastic IP Address (EIP), and Classic Load Balancer (CLB).

ECPM provides two core capabilities:

  • Raven resource management: Manages CLB instances, EIPs, and access control lists (ACLs) required by the Raven component.

  • ELB management: When a Service has Type=LoadBalancer and LoadBalancerClass=alibabacloud.com/elb, ECPM manages the load balancer, backend servers, and listeners of the node pool selected by the Service.

ECPM is installed automatically in ACK edge clusters. No manual installation is required.

Release notes

July 2024

Version Image address Release date Description Impact
v1.0.1 registry-cn-hangzhou.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/edge-cloud-provider-manager:v1.0.1 July 15, 2024 Feature: Dynamic management of CLB instances, EIPs, and ACLs required by the Raven component. Feature: Multi-region ELB instances. For more information, see Use ELB instances to expose Services in multiple regions. This update has no negative impact on workloads.