Overview

Alibaba Cloud Container Service for Kubernetes (ACK) integrates virtualization, storage, networking, and security capabilities. ACK allows you to deploy applications in high-performance and scalable containers and provides full lifecycle management of enterprise-class containerized applications. Alibaba Cloud was one of the first vendors to pass the Kubernetes conformance certification tests globally. Alibaba Cloud offers professional support and services.

Security and Management

Ensures end-to-end security for applications and supports permission management within an enterprise by using Alibaba Cloud accounts and RAM users

Ease of Use

Helps create containers and clusters easily. Provides all-in-one lifecycle management of containerized applications

High Efficiency and Reliability

Verified by Alibaba Cloud in super-large-scale scenarios. Allows you to start a large number of containers in seconds

Features

Networking Enables communication between containers on different hosts. Supports VPC for high-performance networks Storage Supports volume management, cloud disks, and NAS file systems as volumes Logging Supports automatic log collection and integration with Log Service Monitoring Supports container monitoring and VM monitoring Scheduling Allows you to deploy workloads across zones to ensure high availability. Allows you to reschedule workloads off failed nodes Routing Allows you to forward layer 4 and layer 7 requests and bind the requests to backend containers Permission Supports authorizing RAM users to manage clusters Authorization Support RBAC authorization management system Cluster Management Allows you to create or delete clusters in different regions based on your business requirements Resource Management Allows you to authorize ACK to create new ECS instances in specific clusters. Allows you to add existing ECS instances to specific clusters Integration Supports integration with VPCs to provide secure and high-performance deployment solutions that apply to hybrid cloud scenarios. Supports integration with SLBs to enable access to containers High Availability Supports affinity policies and horizontal scaling of services. Provides high availability and disaster recovery across zones

Benefits

Improves your efficiency in deploying Kubernetes resources. You do not have to explore and develop Kubernetes by yourself. Cluster Management You can create clusters in the console easily easily, and use GPU-accelerated instances and ECS Bare Metal instances in a cluster. You can also deploy your cluster across zones to ensure high availability. Provides optimized OS images for Kubernetes containers. Offers Kubernetes versions and Docker versions with high stability and reinforced security. Supports multi-cluster management and cluster federation management. You can also deploy your cluster across zones to ensure high availability. Application Management Supports canary releases and blue-green releases. Supports application monitoring and auto scaling. Provides a built-in application store that deploys applications using Helm. Provides an App Catalog to simplify service integration. Network Management Provides a high-performance network plug-in that is optimized for Alibaba Cloud to assign ENIs to pods. The network performance of a VPC with this plug-in is 20% higher than a regular network solution. Supports access policies and bandwidth throttling for containers. Storage Management Supports Alibaba Cloud cloud disks, local disks, NAS file systems, CPFS file systems, and OSS buckets. Provides CSI and FlexVolume as volume drivers. Supports dynamic creation and volume migration. O&M Management Allows you to upgrade Kubernetes versions and automatically add nodes to a Kubernetes cluster. Provides a high-performance log collection agent that can handle 100,000 requests per second. Service Assurance The Alibaba Cloud Technical Team provides support to ensure the stability and security of your ACK clusters. As one of the platinum members of CNCF, Alibaba Cloud has passed the Kubernetes certification tests.