Create an AMD-compatible elastic container instance

Background information

AMD-compatible elastic container instances are powered by AMD EPYC^TM ROME processors. These instances offload a large number of virtualization features to dedicated hardware with the use of the SHENLONG architecture to provide predictable and consistent ultra-high performance and reduce virtualization overheads. AMD-compatible elastic container instances suit the following scenarios: video encoding and decoding, web frontend servers, frontend servers of massively multiplayer online (MMO) games, scenarios where large volumes of packets are received and transmitted, and scenarios where applications such as DevOps applications are developed and tested.

You can specify AMD-compatible Elastic Compute Service (ECS) instance types to create AMD-compatible elastic container instances. The c6a compute optimized ECS instance family is supported, which includes a variety of instance types such as ecs.c6a.large.

For more information, visit the following links:

• ECS Instance Types Available for Each Region

• Instance families

Kubernetes mode

You can add annotations to metadata in the configuration file of a pod to specify an AMD-compatible ECS instance type. Sample code:

apiVersion: apps/v1 # for versions before 1.8.0 use apps/v1beta1
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  #Specify an AMD-compatible ECS instance type.
    spec:
      containers:
      - name: nginx
        image: nginx:1.7.9
        ports:
        - containerPort: 80

API mode

When you call the CreateContainerGroup operation to create an elastic container instance, you can use the InstanceType parameter to specify an AMD-compatible ECS instance type. The following table describes this parameter. For more information, see CreateContainerGroup.