ACK Anywhere, a new generation container platform, is here

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.

Recently, Alibaba Cloud's container service has been fully upgraded to ACK Anywhere, allowing enterprises to obtain consistent container infrastructure capabilities wherever the cloud is needed.

As early as 2015, Alibaba Cloud released the first container service ACK (Alibaba Cloud Container Service for Kubernetes) in China. Since then, through continuous improvement of the product layout, Alibaba Cloud has now become the “cloud service provider with the most complete container product layout” in the Gartner 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 their self-built data centers.

Alibaba researcher and head of Alibaba Cloud Cloud Native Application Platform Ding Yu said: The upgraded ACK Anywhere has the four core capabilities of "consistent experience, flexible computing power, capacity sinking, and simplified disaster tolerance", allowing enterprises to operate in any business scenario. When using container services, unified cluster management, unified resource scheduling, unified data disaster tolerance, and unified application delivery can be realized.

Consistent experience

With ACK Anywhere, users can make full use of the stock machines in the computer room, realize unified traffic management through public cloud management, unified application lifecycle management, and reduce hybrid cloud management costs.

Stronger flexibility

ACK Anywhere provides a flexible ability to expand from local to cloud. Achieve a Kubernetes cluster that scales within seconds across customer-owned data centers and Alibaba Public Cloud, helping enterprises to calmly cope with peaks of periodic or sudden business traffic, and only pay for business peaks flexibly.

Rich products

With ACK Anywhere, companies can not only deploy mature cloud-native observability and security protection capabilities to the user environment, but also sink advanced cloud-based middleware, data analysis and AI capabilities locally to meet the company's product richness and data Requirements for control.

Ensure business continuity

ACK Anywhere realizes the integration of backup, disaster tolerance, and migration, supports Kubernetes cluster configuration and data volume backup and recovery, and comprehensively improves system stability and business continuity.

In addition to the upgraded ACK Anywhere, two new members of the Alibaba Cloud container product family have joined:

◎ ACK ONE：

ACK ONE is an enterprise-level multi-region/multi-cluster container management platform that deploys cloud-native applications in multiple regions for customers, provides consistent management, delivery, and operation and maintenance experience, and helps enterprises easily build multi-region/multi-cluster business systems.

◎ ACK Distro release version:

ACK Distro was born for heterogeneous IaaS and supports multiple chip architectures and heterogeneous hardware environments. Through the local deployment of ACK Distro, enterprises can enjoy the same safe and reliable enterprise-level capabilities as ACK.

The cluster built using 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... Containers and cloud native have become the technical force behind digital innovation in thousands of industries.

Ding Yu said that Alibaba Cloud Cloud Native is committed to providing digital innovation technology bases for government affairs, manufacturing, transportation, Internet, finance, retail and other industries.