Open source projects extend the functionalities of Kubernetes clusters. This topic describes open source projects that are commonly used by Container Service for Kubernetes (ACK).
| Category | Name | Description | Address | Documentation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Core components | Kubernetes Cloud Controller Manager for Alibaba Cloud | Allows you to create load balancing Services for Kubernetes applications and manage route entries of nodes. | Cloud-Provider-Alibaba-Cloud | Cloud Controller Manager |
| Networking | Terway CNI Network Plugin | A network plug-in developed by Alibaba Cloud for ACK. It allows you to set up networks for pods by associating Alibaba Cloud elastic network interfaces (ENIs) with the pods. | Terway | Work with Terway |
| NGINX Ingress Controller | Functions as a reserve proxy server to balance the load of network traffic at Layer 4 and Layer 7. | Ingress-Nginx | NGINX Ingress Controller | |
| ExternalDNS | Uses Alibaba Cloud DNS PrivateZone to provide dynamic domain name resolution services. | External-DNS | ExternalDNS | |
| Storage | Alibaba Cloud Kubernetes CSI Plugin | A storage plug-in that is used to manage the lifecycle of volumes. | Alibaba-Cloud-CSI-Driver | CSI overview |
| Alibaba Cloud Kubernetes Flexvolume Plug-in | A component that allows you to mount and unmount volumes (v1.16 or earlier). | Flexvolume | FlexVolume overview | |
| Volume Provision Controller for Alibaba Cloud Disks | A component that allows you to create and delete Kubernetes volumes (v1.16 or earlier). | Alicloud-Storage-Provisioner | Volume provision controller for Alibaba Cloud disks | |
| Resource optimization | Node-Resource-Manager | Manages and monitors nodes. | Node-Resource-Manager | None |
| Elasticity | Kubernetes-CronHPA-Controller | A component that allows you to perform horizontal scaling for containers. | Kubernetes-CronHPA-Controller | CronHPA |
| Kubernetes Autoscaler | A component that allows you to perform horizontal scaling for nodes. | Autoscaler | Auto scaling of nodes | |
| Security | KMS provider plugin for Alibaba Cloud | Allows you to encrypt Kubernetes Secrets that are stored in disks by using Key Management Service (KMS). | Ack-KMS-Plugin | Use KMS to encrypt Kubernetes Secrets |
| Kube2ram | Deploys DaemonSets that function as proxies for ECS-linked Resource Access Management (RAM) roles. Kube2ram maps different Alibaba Cloud RAM roles to pods that are running on ACK. | Kube2ram | Kube2ram | |
| ACK RAM Authenticator for Kubernetes | Allows the API server to verify the identities of users based on their RAM roles. | ACK-RAM-Authenticator | Use RAM roles to perform identity verification for ACK clusters | |
| ACK Secret Manager | Allows you to import and synchronize keys in KMS Secret Manager in real time. | ACK Secret Manager | ACK Secret Manager | |
| SGX-Device-Plugin | A Kubernetes device plug-in that is used to expand memory resources for Enclave Page Cache (EPC) encryption on Software Guard Extension (SGX) devices in confidential computing scenarios. | SGX-Device-Plugin | SGX-Device-Plugin | |
| Migration | Derrick | An open source S2I tool that is used to generate Docker and YAML files after workloads are inspected. | Derrick | Derrick |
| Velero | Velero is a tool that is used to back up, restore, and migrate cloud-native applications deployed in Kubernetes clusters. | Velero-Plugin | Velero-Plugin | |
| Image Build Specification of Alibaba Cloud Container Service for Kubernetes (ACK) | A tool that is used to create custom container images that meet the requirements of the nodes in a Kubernetes cluster. | ACK-Image-Builder | Use a custom image to create an ACK cluster | |
| AI | Arena | Arena is a thin client that is designed to manage Kubernetes-based machine learning tasks. Arena allows you to streamline data preparation, model development, model training, and model prediction throughout a complete lifecycle of machine learning. This improves the work efficiency of data scientists. | Arena | Arena |
| GPU Sharing Scheduler Extender in Kubernetes | The first GPU sharing scheduler in the industry. | GPU Share-Scheduler-Extender | GPU Share-Scheduler-Extender | |
| Fluid | An open source, Kubernetes-native, and distributed dataset orchestration and acceleration engine. | Fluid | Fluid | |
| Application management | Kube-eventer | An open source tool that is used to collect Kubernetes events. It can sink these events to a variety of services such as Kafka, MySQL, DingTalk, and FEISHU. | Kube-Eventer | Event monitoring |
| Alibaba-Cloud-Metrics-Adapter | A component that allows you to scale pods horizontally with external metrics from other cloud services. | Alibaba-Cloud-Metrics-Adapter | Alibaba-Cloud-Metrics-Adapter | |
| OpenKruise | Automates the workloads of Kubernetes applications. It supports in-place upgrades and sidecar management, and allows you to deploy applications efficiently and stably. | Kruise | What is OpenKruise? | |
| Open Application Model Specification | An open application model specification that provides standards and separation of concerns for you to define and manage cloud-native applications. | Open Application Model | Open Application Model Specification | |
| Kubevela | An easy-to-use and highly extensible platform engine for application management. | KubeVela | Quick Start | |
| Scheduling | Scheduler Plugins | A scheduler that is extended from the Kubernetes scheduling framework. It supports complex scenarios such as AI-assisted computing and big data computing. | Scheduler Plugins | Scheduler Plugins |