Container Service for Kubernetes:Introduction and release notes for the policy-template-controller component - Container Service for Kubernetes

The policy-template-controller is a key component for policy management. This topic describes the component's features, provides usage instructions, and includes its change log.

The policy-template-controller is a Kubernetes controller that manages container security policy instances deployed from templates and the overall policy administration status of your cluster. For usage instructions, see Configure container security policies (New).

Change log

September 2025

Version number	Image address	Change time	Changes	Impact
0.4.1	registry-cn-hangzhou.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/policy-template-controller:0.4.1	September 8, 2025	Upgraded the Go version to 1.23.12 and updated related package dependencies. Upgraded the base OS image to improve component stability.	This upgrade does not affect your services.

August 2025

Version number	Image address	Change time	Changes	Impact
v0.4.0.8-g220be83-aliyun	registry.cn-hangzhou.aliyuncs.com/acs/policy-template-controller:v0.4.0.8-g220be83-aliyun	August 13, 2025	Added support for the managed policy-template-controller component in Auto Mode clusters.	This upgrade does not affect your services.

April 2023

Version number	Image address	Change time	Changes	Impact
v0.4.0.0-gddee19d-aliyun	registry.cn-hangzhou.aliyuncs.com/acs/policy-template-controller:v0.4.0.0-gddee19d-aliyun	April 18, 2023	Added support for Kubernetes 1.26.	This upgrade does not affect your services.

December 2022

Version number	Image address	Change time	Changes	Impact
v0.3.0.0-g0943d7d-aliyun	registry.cn-hangzhou.aliyuncs.com/acs/policy-template-controller:v0.3.0.0-g0943d7d-aliyun	December 22, 2022	Added support for ACK Serverless clusters running Kubernetes 1.18 and later. Added support for automatically restoring an accidentally deleted Simple Log Service (SLS) Logstore by restarting the component container.	This upgrade does not affect your services.

April 2022

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v0.2.1.13-g38303f0-aliyun

registry.cn-hangzhou.aliyuncs.com/acs/policy-template-controller:v0.2.1.13-g38303f0-aliyun

April 7, 2022

This version is in phased release.

Fixed an issue where nodes hosting pods could not be automatically drained due to improper component configurations.
Fixed an issue where log collection for policy enforcement records was abnormal when multiple clusters shared the same log project.

This upgrade does not affect your services.

February 2022

Version number	Image address	Change time	Changes	Impact
v0.2.0.0-g91ade1a-aliyun	registry.cn-hangzhou.aliyuncs.com/acs/policy-template-controller:v0.2.0.0-g91ade1a-aliyun	February 15, 2022	Fixed a repeated synchronization issue to reduce the number of requests to the API server. Added support for the ARM64 architecture.	This upgrade does not affect your services.

November 2021

Version number	Image address	Change time	Changes	Impact
v0.1.1.22-gc87e2aa-aliyun	registry.cn-hangzhou.aliyuncs.com/acs/policy-template-controller:v0.1.1.22-gc87e2aa-aliyun	November 16, 2021	Implemented the features required by Configure container security policies (New).	This upgrade does not affect your services.