Alibaba Cloud's container service is fully upgraded to ACK Anywhere, which extends the boundary of the cloud to every scenario that the enterprise needs

Scenarios such as 5G, AR, and AIoT are driving the evolution of a new generation of cloud architecture, and containers have reshaped the way the cloud is used. In order to help enterprises make full use of the new generation of cloud architecture, at the Shanghai Alibaba Cloud Computing Summit on September 26, 2021, Alibaba researcher and head of Alibaba Cloud Cloud Native Application Platform Ding Yu announced that Alibaba Cloud container services will be fully upgraded to ACK Anywhere, allowing enterprises Wherever the cloud is needed, consistent container infrastructure capabilities can be obtained.

Prior to this, Alibaba Cloud launched a multi-form deployment architecture with one cloud, providing multiple deployment forms such as central cloud, local cloud, edge cloud, cloud box, etc. The comprehensive upgrade of ACKAnywhere means that public cloud capabilities are further extended to localization, and customers are Low-cost, low-latency, and localized public cloud products can also be experienced in the built data center.

ACK Anywhere: A new generation of container platform with "unbounded computing and unlimited carrying"

With the popularization of cloud computing and the development of cloud-native technologies, container services have become the necessary infrastructure for major companies to use the cloud. Ding Yu said that the upgraded ACK Anywhere has four core capabilities of "consistent experience, flexible computing power, capacity reduction, and simplified disaster tolerance", enabling enterprises to achieve unified cluster management when using container services in any business scenario. , Unified resource scheduling, unified data disaster tolerance and unified application delivery.

It is reported that ACK Anywhere supports unified management of central cloud, local cloud, and edge cloud container clusters, as well as unified management of customer self-built clusters and other cloud Kubernetes clusters; relying on strong elastic computing power, by hosting flexible nodes, enterprises The capacity can be expanded from local to the cloud on demand, achieving second-level scaling, and calmly coping with periodic or sudden business traffic peaks.

Thanks to the rich product capabilities of Alibaba Cloud Public Cloud, ACK Anywhere can deploy mature cloud-native observability and security protection capabilities to the user environment, and can also sink advanced cloud middleware, data analysis and AI capabilities locally. Satisfy customers' needs for product richness and data management and control, and accelerate business innovation.

Business continuity is the focus of modern enterprise IT architecture. The built-in backup center of ACK Anywhere realizes the integration of backup, disaster recovery, and migration; it supports Kubernetes cluster configuration and data volume backup and recovery. Combined with Alibaba Cloud's rich experience in multi-active disaster recovery, it helps enterprises to comprehensively improve system stability and business continuity.

ACK Distro: a safe, easy-to-use, and open Kubernetes distribution

In order to better meet the needs of customers for deploying Kubernetes clusters in data centers, ACK Anywhere launched a new member-ACK Distro, allowing enterprises to enjoy the same safe and reliable enterprise-level capabilities as ACK on their own infrastructure.

ACK Distro is a Kubernetes release launched by Alibaba Cloud for heterogeneous IaaS environments. Its core components have undergone large-scale production applications by hundreds of thousands of external customers, and it has industry-leading security and reliability. At the same time, it supports multiple chip architectures and heterogeneous hardware environments to ensure that ACK Distro can run on diverse infrastructures and fully tap the potential of these infrastructures.

In Gartner's latest report on the global container public cloud competition, Alibaba Cloud has become the only Chinese company selected for the third consecutive year with more than ten years of container technology reserves and practical experience. Its products include serverless containers, service grids, and security. Sandbox containers, hybrid clouds and edge containers are one of the service providers with the most comprehensive coverage of the key capabilities of global container products.

“There may not be a unified path for digital innovation in enterprises, but after practical tests, cloud native is the shortest path for corporate digital innovation." Ding Yu said that Alibaba Cloud is committed to serving thousands of industries such as government affairs, manufacturing, transportation, internet, finance, and retail. , Provide a technological base for digital innovation.