AMD instances are built on the SHENLONG architecture and offloads virtualization features to dedicated hardware. This provides predictable and consistent ultra-high performance and reduces virtualization overheads. This topic describes how to use AMD instances.

Scenarios

  • Video encoding and decoding
  • Receiving and sending large numbers of network packets
  • Web frontend servers
  • Frontend servers of massively multiplayer online (MMO) games
  • Application testing and development, such as DevOps

Specifications

Elastic Container Instance allows you to specify an Elastic Compute Service (ECS) instance type to create AMD instances. The c6a compute-optimized instance family is supported. For example, you can specify the ecs.c6a.large instance type. For more information, see Instance families.

Usage notes

Add annotations: k8s.aliyun.com/eci-use-specs to the pod configuration.

Add the following annotations to the metadata field of the pod configuration to specify the instance type. 

apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
  name: nginx
  labels:
    app: nginx
spec:
  replicas: 2
  selector:
    matchLabels:
      app: nginx
  template:
    metadata:
      labels:
        app: nginx
      annotations:
        k8s.aliyun.com/eci-use-specs : "ecs.c6a.xlarge"  #Replace the value with the required ECS instance type.
    spec:
      containers:
      - name: nginx
        image: nginx:1.7.9
        ports:
        - containerPort: 80