Container Service is a high-performance and scalable container application management service that enables you to use Docker and Kubernetes to manage the lifecycle of containerized applications.
Container Service offers a variety of application publishing methods and continuous delivery capabilities and supports microservice architectures.
Container Service simplifies establishment of container management clusters and integrates Alibaba Cloud virtualization, storage, network, and security capabilities to create the optimal container running environment on the cloud.
Benefits
- Secure and Controllable
Protects applications end-to-end and supports management of primary account, subaccounts, and enterprise permissions.
- Simple and Easy to Use
Create container clusters with one click and manage the application lifecycle based on the container.
- Protocol Compatibility
Seamlessly migrate applications to the cloud and manage hybrid clouds. Both Swarm and Kubernetes clusters are supported.
- Efficient and Reliable
Cluster management and flexible selection of regions and network environments. You can select different regions to create or delete clusters as needed.
Features
Cluster management and flexible selection of regions and network environments
You can select different regions to create or delete clusters as needed.
Multiple server hosting methods
Establishes the latest in advanced network architecture through RoCE v2, enabling RDMA interconnection, significantly improved cluster acceleration, and the ability to break through network bottlenecks.
One-stop container lifecycle management
Network, storage, log, monitoring, scheduling, route, and permission
Network
Supports interconnection between containers on different hosts and high-performance VPC drives.
Storage
Supports volume management, OSSFS, cloud disks, and NAS.
Log
Supports automatic log collection and log service integration.
Monitoring
Supports monitoring of containers and VMs.
Scheduling
Supports policies, such as cross-zone high availability or rescheduling of abnormal nodes.
Route
Supports forwarding of layer 4 and layer 7 requests and binding to backend.
Permission
Supports cluster-level subaccount authorization management.
Support of Swarm and Kubernetes clusters
Supports both Swarm and Kubernetes clusters and seamlessly migrates existing offline systems to Alibaba Cloud.
Alibaba Cloud's unique value-added environment capabilities
Integrates with VPC to provide a secure and high-performance deployment solution that supports hybrid cloud and expands Compose template tags and enhances lifecycle management. Also integrates with Server Load Balancer and supports container access capabilities.
Flexible scheduling policies and simple integration of downstream and upstream delivery
Supports service-level affinity policies and horizontal scaling, cross-zone high availability and disaster recovery, and APIs for cluster and application management. This allows you to easily access systems that are continuously integrated and independently deployed.
Common Scenarios
- DevOps
- Machine Learning
- Microservices
- Hybrid
- Auto Scaling
DevOps Continuous Delivery
Optimal Continuous Delivery Proces
Working with Jenkins, Container Service automatically completes the entire DevOps process from code submission to application deployment. Only code that passes automated testing can be delivered and deployed. This efficiently replaces traditional approaches that feature complex deployment and slow iteration.
Advantages
Automatic DevOps
The entire process, from code update and code building, to image building and application deployment, runs automatically.
Environmental Consistency
Container Service allows you to deliver not only code but also a running environment based on the unchangeable architecture.
Continuous Feedback
The result of each integration or delivery is immediately reported.
Products
Alibaba Cloud HPC-based Machine Learning
Start from scratch with a focus on machine learning
Container Service helps data engineers easily deploy machine learning applications on HPC clusters, track testing and training, and publish models. Data is deployed in distributed storage devices, allowing you to focus on core businesses without the concern about complicated deployment and O&M and make fast progress starting from scratch.
Advantages
Fast and Elastic
Machine learning applications can be deployed with one-click, started in seconds, and resized elastically.
Easy and Controllable
You can easily obtain the GPU computing capabilities with one-line configuration and monitor GPU resources.
Deep Integration
Container Service can seamlessly access Alibaba Cloud storage, log monitoring, and security infrastructure.
Products
Microservices Architecture
Agile development and deployment, accelerating enterprise service iteration
In the production environment, Container Service appropriately splits microservices and stores each microservice application in Alibaba Cloud image repository for management. You only need to iterate each microservice application. Alibaba Cloud provides scheduling, orchestration, deployment, and gated launch capabilities.
Advantages
Load balancing and service discovery
Supports forwarding of layer 4 and layer 7 requests and binding to backend.
Abundant scheduling and exception recovery policies
Supports service-level affinity scheduling, cross-zone high availability, and disaster recovery.
Microservice monitoring and auto scaling
Supports monitoring of microservices and containers and auto scaling of microservices.
Products
Hybrid Cloud Architecture
Unified O&M of multiple cloud resources
You can manage on-cloud and off-cloud resources simultaneously on the Container Service console, without repeatedly switching across multiple cloud management consoles. With the container separated from the infrastructure, you can use the same image and orchestration to deploy applications on and off the cloud simultaneously.
Advantages
On-cloud application resizing
In the peak traffic period, the system is quickly resized on the cloud to bring some service traffic to the cloud.
On-Cloud disaster tolerance
The service system is deployed both on and off the cloud to provide off-cloud services and on-cloud disaster tolerance.
•Off-Cloud Development and Testing
Applications developed and tested off the cloud will be seamlessly released on the cloud.
Products
Auto Scaling Architecture
Traffic-based automatic service scale-up and scale-down
Container Service can automatically scale up or down a service based on the service traffic without human interference. This prevents system suspension due to not timely scaling when the traffic increases suddenly and saves massive idle resources in off-peak periods.
Advantages
Rapid Response
If the service traffic reaches the scaling threshold, Container Service will trigger the scaling operations in seconds.
Automation
The whole scale-up or scale-down process is fully automated without human interference.
Low Cost
The system is automatically scaled down when the traffic decreases to avoid wasted resources.
