Scenarios such as 5G, AR and AIoT are driving the evolution of next-generation cloud architectures, while containers are reshaping the way clouds are used.
Recently, Alibaba Cloud Container services have been fully upgraded to ACK Anywhere, enabling enterprises to obtain consistent container infrastructure capabilities wherever they need a cloud.
As early as 2015, Alibaba Cloud launched ACK (Alibaba Cloud Container Service for Kubernetes), the first Container Service in China. Since then, through continuous improvement of product layout, Ali Cloud has become the “cloud service vendor with the most complete container product layout” in Gartner’s report.
The comprehensive upgrade of Alibaba Cloud container service ACK means that public cloud capabilities are further extended to localization, and customers can also experience low-cost, low-latency and localized public cloud products in self-built data centers.
Ding Yu, an Alibaba researcher and head of aliyunyun’s native application platform, said: The upgraded ACK Anywhere has four core capabilities of “consistent experience, elastic computing power, capacity sinking and simplified DISASTER recovery”, enabling enterprises to achieve unified cluster management, unified resource scheduling, unified data disaster recovery and unified application delivery when using container services in any business scenario.
Consistent experience
Through ACK Anywhere, users can make full use of the stock machines in the machine room, achieve unified flow management and unified application life cycle management through public cloud management, and reduce the cost of hybrid cloud management.
More flexibility
ACK Anywhere provides flexible scaling from local to cloud capabilities. Achieve a Kubernetes cluster across customer owned data centers and Ali public cloud scale in seconds to help enterprises cope with periodic or unexpected business traffic peaks, and only pay for the flexibility of business peak.
Abundant products
Through ACK Anywhere, enterprises can not only deploy mature cloud native observation and security protection capabilities to the user environment, but also sink the advanced middleware, data analysis and AI capabilities of the cloud to the local, to meet the requirements of enterprises for product richness and data control.
Ensuring business continuity
ACK Anywhere realizes the integration of backup, disaster recovery and migration, supports Kubernetes cluster configuration and data volume backup and recovery, and comprehensively improves system stability and business continuity.
In addition to the updated ACK Anywhere, there are two new members of Aliyun container product family:
It was not an ACK ONE:
ACK ONE is an enterprise-class multi-region/multi-cluster container management platform, which provides customers with multi-region deployment of cloud native applications, consistent management, delivery, operation and maintenance experience, and helps enterprises easily build multi-region/multi-cluster business systems.
◎ ACK Distro
ACK Distro was born for heterogeneous IaaS, supporting a variety of chip architectures and heterogeneous hardware environments. Companies can enjoy the same secure, reliable enterprise-level capabilities as ACK Distro, through a local deployment.
The clusters built by ACK Distro can also be smoothly managed by cloud native Stack or public cloud ACK to achieve consistent resource management, consistent policy compliance, consistent traffic control and consistent application deployment.
From cloud to edge, from public cloud to hybrid cloud, from online business to offline computing, from AI to big data… Container and cloud native have become the technological force behind digital innovation in thousands of industries.
Ding Yu said that Ali Yunyun is committed to providing the technological base of digital innovation for thousands of industries such as government affairs, manufacturing, transportation, Internet, finance and retail.