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Container Service for Kubernetes:storage-operator

Last Updated:Oct 16, 2025

The storage-operator component provides a variety of storage features, such as automatic persistent volume (PV) scale-out, disk upgrades or downgrades, and storage resource monitoring. This topic describes the storage-operator component and its change records.

Component introduction

The storage-operator component provides storage features such as automatic persistent volume (PV) scale-out, online disk upgrades or downgrades, and storage resource monitoring. These features improve the Operations and Maintenance (O&M) efficiency of Alibaba Cloud storage resources in ACK clusters. For more information, see Manage the storage-operator component.

Change records

October 2025

Version number

Image address

Change description

Change time

Impact

v1.33.2

registry-{{regionID}}.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/storage-operator:v1.33.2-f32da36

  • Changed the base image to a distroless image.

  • Fixed occasional concurrent access conflicts in coroutines.

October 17, 2025

This upgrade does not affect your services.

August 2025

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Image address

Change description

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Impact

v1.33.1

registry-{{regionID}}.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/storage-operator:v1.33.1-cb82bad

  • The storage-cnfs component is split into the managed cnfs-controller component, which is published separately in the component center. For compatibility, the cnfs-controller component is automatically installed when you upgrade or install this component.

  • Removed the sub-component management mode. The component now has the built-in features of the original storage-auto-expander and storage-controller components. You no longer need to manage them using a ConfigMap.

  • Added support for using FeatureGates to enable or disable features.

August 20, 2025

This upgrade does not affect your services.

v1.32.10

registry-{{regionID}}.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/storage-operator:v1.32.10-aa189c8

Optimized the memory usage of the storage-auto-expander component.

August 8, 2025

This upgrade does not affect your services.

May 2025

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Image address

Change description

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v1.32.9

registry-{{regionID}}.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/storage-operator:v1.32.9

Improved the security of the storage-cnfs and storage-controller components. Metadata is now accessed in security hardening mode.

May 14, 2025

This upgrade does not affect your services.

March 2025

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Image address

Change description

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v1.32.5

registry-{{regionID}}.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/storage-operator:v1.32.5

Fixed issues with the storage-cnfs component.

March 31, 2025

This upgrade does not affect your services.

v1.32.4

registry-{{regionID}}.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/storage-operator:v1.32.4

  • Unpublished the storage-monitor component. Its features are now provided by the storage-cnfs component.

  • The storage-cnfs component now supports capacity monitoring for NAS PVs. It publishes alert events on the PVC when the available capacity drops below 15%.

  • Fixed an issue where the storage-auto-expander component repeatedly scaled out NAS PVs.

March 12, 2025

This upgrade does not affect your services.

September 2024

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Image address

Change description

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Impact

v1.31.1

registry-{{regionID}}.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/storage-operator:v1.31.1

  • Updated the Alpine base image of the storage-controller component to version 3.18.

  • The storage-monitor component now supports byte-level capacity monitoring for NAS PVs.

  • Fixed issues with the storage-auto-expander component and updated its Alpine base image to version 3.18.

September 26, 2024

This upgrade does not affect your services.

July 2024

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Image address

Change description

Change time

Impact

v1.30.2

registry-{{regionID}}.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/storage-operator:v1.30.2

Optimized component logs.

July 12, 2024

This upgrade does not affect your services.

May 2024

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Image address

Change description

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Impact

v1.30.1

registry-{{regionID}}.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/storage-operator:v1.30.1

Performed routine dependency updates. Disabled older TLS versions to improve system security.

May 31, 2024

This upgrade does not affect your services.

January 2024

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v1.28.2-be0cf84-aliyun

registry.cn-{{regionID}}.aliyuncs.com/acs/storage-operator:v1.28.2-be0cf84-aliyun

Fixed issues with the storage-controller component.

January 17, 2024

This upgrade does not affect your services.

December 2023

Version number

Image address

Change description

Change time

Impact

v1.28.1-4e62141-aliyun

registry.cn-{{regionID}}.aliyuncs.com/acs/storage-operator:v1.28.1-4e62141-aliyun

  • Fixed issues with the storage-monitor component.

  • Updated the component base image to Alpine.

December 25, 2023

This upgrade does not affect your services.

October 2023

Version number

Image address

Change description

Change time

Impact

v1.26.2-1de13b6-aliyun

registry.cn-{{regionID}}.aliyuncs.com/acs/storage-operator:v1.26.2-1de13b6-aliyun

  • Updated storage-controller to v1.26.2-639bc21-aliyun to support cross-zone migration for stateful applications that use enterprise SSDs (ESSDs).

  • Updated storage-cnfs to v1.24.39-0e24b92-aliyun. This version supports enabling versioning for created OSS Buckets and the automatic creation of associated StorageClasses for NAS PVs.

October 25, 2023

This upgrade does not affect your services.

July 2023

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Image address

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Impact

v1.26.1-50a1499-aliyun

registry.cn-{{regionID}}.aliyuncs.com/acs/storage-operator:v1.26.1-50a1499-aliyun

Fixed several monitoring and snapshot issues.

July 2, 2023

This upgrade does not affect your services.

February 2023

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Image address

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v1.24.102-b1cfa3d-aliyun

registry.cn-{{regionID}}.aliyuncs.com/acs/storage-operator:v1.24.102-b1cfa3d-aliyun

Added the storage-controller component to support changing disk types.

February 6, 2023

This upgrade does not affect your services.

November 2022

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Image address

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v1.24.97-3eb7acc-aliyun

registry.cn-{{regionID}}.aliyuncs.com/acs/storage-operator:v1.24.97-3eb7acc-aliyun

  • Updated storage-snapshot-manager to v1.22.1-464f816-aliyun.

  • Fixed an issue where storage-snapshot-manager would occasionally crash in clusters with virtual nodes.

November 2, 2022

This upgrade does not affect your services.

September 2022

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Image address

Change description

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Impact

v1.24.95-e2d0756-aliyun

registry.cn-{{regionID}}.aliyuncs.com/acs/storage-operator:v1.24.95-e2d0756-aliyun

Updated storage-cnfs-controller to v1.24.31-262bf31-aliyun.

September 27, 2022

This upgrade does not affect your services.

August 2022

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v1.22.91-c4d5ab4-aliyun

registry.cn-{{regionID}}.aliyuncs.com/acs/csi-plugin:v1.22.91-c4d5ab4-aliyun

Added collection of storage metrics.

August 25, 2022

This upgrade does not affect your services.

July 2022

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v1.22.86-041b094-aliyun

registry.cn-{{regionID}}.aliyuncs.com/acs/csi-plugin:v1.22.86-041b094-aliyun

  • Added support for the file storage client acceleration feature, which is disabled by default. For more information, see Enable distributed cache for CNFS NAS compute nodes.

  • Fixed an array-index out of bounds access issue in the automatic scale-out component that occurred when disk usage exceeded 100%.

July 13, 2022

This upgrade does not affect your services.

May 2022

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v1.22.8-aa22537-aliyun

registry.cn-{{region}}.aliyuncs.com/acs/storage-operator:v1.22.8-aa22537-aliyun

Modified the disk snapshot YAML file.

May 13, 2022

This upgrade does not affect your services.

April 2022

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v1.22.0.75-5bc07f7-aliyun

registry.cn-{{region}}.aliyuncs.com/acs/storage-operator:v1.22.0.75-5bc07f7-aliyun

Added support for the advanced disk snapshot feature.

April 14, 2022

This upgrade does not affect your services.

March 2022

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Image address

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Impact

v1.18.8.68-9078250-aliyun

registry.cn-{{regionID}}.aliyuncs.com/acs/storage-operator:v1.18.8.68-9078250-aliyun

Fixed security vulnerabilities in the CentOS 7 base image.

March 16, 2022

This upgrade does not affect your services.

December 2021

Version number

Image address

Change description

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Impact

v1.18.8.67-c1aef60-aliyun

registry.cn-{{regionID}}.aliyuncs.com/acs/storage-operator:v1.18.8.67-c1aef60-aliyun

Fixed issues where NAS quotas were slow to take effect and automatic scale-out failed.

December 22, 2021

This upgrade does not affect your services.

September 2021

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Image address

Change description

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Impact

v1.18.8.60-a5ba617-aliyun

registry-vpc.${region}.aliyuncs.com/acs/storage-operator:v1.18.8.60-a5ba617-aliyun

  • Enabled quotas by default to support automatic scale-out when NAS is managed by CNFS.

  • Fixed an issue where pods were scheduled to unavailable nodes.

  • Added support for scheduling pods to Linux nodes and non-virtual nodes.

  • Fixed an issue where the CNFS status could not be changed.

September 24, 2021

This upgrade does not affect your services.

August 2021

Version number

Image address

Change description

Change time

Impact

v1.18.8.55-e398ce5-aliyun

registry-vpc.${region}.aliyuncs.com/acs/storage-operator:v1.18.8.55-e398ce5-aliyun

  • Added support for creating Capacity NAS file systems by default in CNFS.

  • In the default StorageClass created by CNFS, the archiveOnDelete parameter is set to false. This allows the corresponding subdirectory to be deleted by default when a PV is deleted.

  • Fixed an issue where the storage-monitor component had high CPU usage.

August 16, 2021

This upgrade does not affect your services.

June 2021

Version number

Image address

Change description

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Impact

v1.18.8.37-c63030b-aliyun

registry-vpc.${region}.aliyuncs.com/acs/storage-operator:v1.18.8.37-c63030b-aliyun

  • Added support for automatic scale-out.

  • Added support for CNFS.

June 25, 2021

This upgrade does not affect your services.

March 2021

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Image address

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v1.18.8.28-18cca7b-aliyun

registry-vpc.${region}.aliyuncs.com/acs/storage-operator:v1.18.8.28-18cca7b-aliyun

New features:

  • Batch snapshots.

  • Scheduled snapshots.

  • Cluster monitoring.

March 25, 2021

This upgrade does not affect your services.