ACK Virtual Node seamlessly connects Kubernetes with the computing power of Elastic Container Instance (ECI) and Container Compute Service (ACS). This topic describes the ACK Virtual Node component, provides instructions on how to use it, and lists its change log.
Component description
ACK Virtual Node is based on the open source project Virtual Kubelet. It extends support for providers and includes many optimizations to seamlessly connect Kubernetes with the computing power of ECI and ACS. This gives your Kubernetes cluster immense elasticity that is not limited by the compute capacity of its nodes. This lets you create ECI or ACS pods on demand without the need for cluster capacity planning.
ACK Virtual Node runs application pods as serverless containers. This provides elasticity, eliminates the need for capacity planning, and offers on-demand usage and billing. It significantly improves deployment elasticity and reduces computing costs for scenarios such as Job tasks, CI/CD, Spark big data computing, and elastic online applications.
For more information about ECI pods, see ECI pod overview.
For more information about ACS pods, see ACS pod instance overview.
Instructions
For more information about how to deploy the ACK Virtual Node component from the App Catalog, see Schedule pods to an ECI instance.
Change log
September 2025
Version | Image address | Modification Time | Changes | Impact |
v2.15.4 | registry-$RegionId-vpc.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.15.4 | September 28, 2025 |
| This upgrade does not affect your services. |
v2.15.3 | registry-$RegionId-vpc.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.15.3 | September 28, 2025 |
| This upgrade does not affect your services. |
v2.15.2 | registry-$RegionId-vpc.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.15.2 | September 22, 2025 |
| This upgrade does not affect your services. |
v2.15.1 | registry-$RegionId-vpc.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.15.1 | September 09, 2025 |
| This upgrade does not affect your services. |
August 2025
Version | Image address | Change Time | Changes | Impact |
v2.15.0 | registry-$RegionId-vpc.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.15.0 | August 19, 2025 |
| This upgrade does not affect your services. |
July 2025
Version | Image address | Modification Time | Changes | Impact |
v2.14.6 | registry-$RegionId-vpc.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.14.6 | July 21, 2025 |
| This upgrade does not affect your services. |
v2.14.5 | registry-$RegionId-vpc.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.14.5 | July 10, 2025 | Optimized local cache to reduce latency. | This upgrade does not affect your services. |
June 2025
Version | Image address | Modification Time | Changes | Impact |
v2.14.4 | registry-$RegionId-vpc.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.14.4 | June 15, 2025 |
| This upgrade does not affect your services. |
v2.14.3 | registry-$RegionId-vpc.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.14.3 | June 11, 2025 |
| This upgrade does not affect your services. |
v2.12.8 | registry-$RegionId-vpc.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.12.8 | June 10, 2025 |
| This upgrade does not affect your services. |
May 2025
Version | Image address | Modification Time | Changes | Impact |
v2.14.2 | registry-$RegionId-vpc.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.14.2 | May 30, 2025 |
| This upgrade does not affect your services. |
v2.14.1 | registry-$RegionId-vpc.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.14.1 | May 21, 2025 |
| This upgrade does not affect your services. |
April 2025
Version | Image address | Last Modified | Changes | Impact |
v2.14.0 | registry-$RegionId-vpc.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.14.0 | April 24, 2025 |
| This upgrade does not affect your services. |
February 2025
Version | Image address | Modification Time | Changes | Impact |
v2.13.4 | registry-$RegionId-vpc.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.13.4 | February 14, 2025 | Optimized the retry rate for scheduling scenarios such as topology spreading for ACS instances. | This upgrade does not affect your services. |
January 2025
Version | Image address | Modification Time | Changes | Impact |
v2.13.2 | registry-$RegionId-vpc.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.13.2 | January 21, 2025 |
| This upgrade does not affect your services. |
v2.13.1 | registry-$RegionId-vpc.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.13.1 | January 14, 2025 |
| This upgrade does not affect your services. |
v2.12.6 | registry-$RegionId-vpc.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.12.6 | January 14, 2025 |
| This upgrade does not affect your services. |
v2.13.0 | registry-$RegionId-vpc.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.13.0 | January 04, 2025 |
| This upgrade does not affect your services. |
December 2024
Version | Image address | Modification Time | Changes | Impact |
v2.12.4 | registry-$RegionId-vpc.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.12.4 | December 04, 2024 |
| This upgrade does not affect your services. |
v2.12.3 | registry-$RegionId-vpc.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.12.3 | December 04, 2024 | Fixes a performance issue that occurs when multiple pods mount the same PVC. | This upgrade does not affect your services. |
November 2024
Version | Image address | Last Modified | Changes | Impact |
v2.12.2 | registry-$RegionId-vpc.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.12.2 | November 08, 2024 |
| This upgrade does not affect your services. |
September 2024
Version | Image address | Last Modified | Changes | Impact |
v2.12.1 | registry-$RegionId-vpc.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.12.1 | September 12, 2024 |
| This upgrade does not affect your services. |
August 2024
Version | Image address | Last Modified | Changes | Impact |
v2.12.0 | registry-$RegionId-vpc.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.12.0 | August 02, 2024 |
| This upgrade does not affect your services. |
June 2024
Version | Image address | Modification Time | Changes | Impact |
v2.11.6 | registry-$RegionId-vpc.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.11.6 | June 14, 2024 |
| This upgrade does not affect your services. |
May 2024
Version | Image address | Last Modified | Changes | Impact |
v2.11.5 | registry-$RegionId-vpc.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.11.5 | May 07, 2024 |
| This upgrade does not affect your services. |
April 2024
Version | Image address | Change Time | Changes | Impact |
v2.11.4 | registry-$RegionId-vpc.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.11.4 | April 17, 2024 |
| This upgrade does not affect your services. |
March 2024
Version | Image address | Modification Time | Changes | Impact |
v2.11.3 | registry-$RegionId-vpc.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.11.3 | March 18, 2024 |
| This upgrade does not affect your services. |
v2.10.8 | registry-$RegionId-vpc.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.10.8 | March 12, 2024 |
| This upgrade does not affect your services. |
February 2024
Version | Image address | Modification Time | Changes | Impact |
v2.11.0 | registry-$RegionId-vpc.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.11.0 | February 02, 2024 |
| This upgrade does not affect your services. |
January 2024
Version | Image address | Modification Time | Changes | Impact |
v2.10.7 | registry-$RegionId-vpc.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.10.7 | January 26, 2024 | Optimized the virtual node registration feature and fixed errors related to region cache during registration. | This upgrade does not affect your services. |
v2.10.6 | registry-$RegionId-vpc.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.10.6 | January 23, 2024 | Fixed an issue where an incorrect configuration of selectors in the eci-profile configuration file caused the virtual node to fail to start. | This upgrade does not affect your services. |
v2.10.5 | registry-$RegionId-vpc.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.10.5 | January 03, 2024 | Fixed an issue of frequent Endpoint updates in metrics sharding mode. | This upgrade does not affect your services. |
November 2023
Version | Image address | Modification Time | Changes | Impact |
v2.10.4 | registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.10.4 | November 27, 2023 |
| This upgrade does not affect your services. |
v2.10.3 | registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.10.3 | November 14, 2023 |
| This upgrade does not affect your services. |
v2.10.2 | registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.10.2 | November 10, 2023 | Fixed a crash issue caused by NetworkPolicy configuration. | This upgrade does not affect your services. |
v2.10.1 | registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.10.1 | November 06, 2023 | Fixed an issue where SidecarSet is dynamically enabled based on whether ack-kruise is installed. | This upgrade does not affect your services. |
October 2023
Version | Image address | Modified Time | Changes | Impact |
v2.10.0 | registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.10.0 | October 30, 2023 |
| This upgrade does not affect your services. |
September 2023
Version | Image address | Modification Time | Changes | Impact |
v2.9.7 | registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.9.7 | September 01, 2023 | Fixed a crash issue caused by the automatic cleanup of underlying instances after a scheduling failure. | This upgrade does not affect your services. |
August 2023
Version | Image address | Modification Time | Changes | Impact |
v2.9.6 | registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.9.6 | August 15, 2023 | Optimized the retry mechanism for startup failures of the managed Prometheus component. | This upgrade does not affect your services. |
July 2023
Version | Image address | Last Modified | Changes | Impact |
v2.9.5 | registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.9.5 | July 27, 2023 | Optimized the speed of attaching pods to virtual nodes. | This upgrade does not affect your services. |
v2.9.4 | registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.9.4 | July 26, 2023 |
| This upgrade does not affect your services. |
June 2023
Version | Image address | Modification Time | Changes | Impact |
v2.9.3 | registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.9.3 | June 21, 2023 |
| This upgrade does not affect your services. |
v2.9.2 | registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.9.2 | April 28, 2023 | Fixed an issue where virtual nodes could not be scheduled in ACK Standard Edition clusters. | This upgrade does not affect your services. |
v2.9.1 | registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.9.1 | April 20, 2023 |
| This upgrade does not affect your services. |
v2.8.8 | registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.8.8 | April 27, 2023 | Fixed an issue where pods were restarted when the component was restarted in some scenarios. | This upgrade does not affect your services. |
March 2023
Version | Image address | Modification Time | Changes | Impact |
v2.9.0 | registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.9.0 | March 30, 2023 |
| This upgrade does not affect your services. |
v2.8.5 | registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.8.5 | March 02, 2023 | Optimized to prevent instance leaks in rare cases. | This upgrade does not affect your services. |
December 2022
Version | Image address | Release date | Changes | Impact |
v2.8.4 | registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.8.4 | December 27, 2022 |
| This upgrade does not affect your services. |
November 2022
Version | Image address | Modification Time | Changes | Impact |
v2.8.3 | registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.8.3 | November 25, 2022 |
| This upgrade does not affect your services. |
v2.8.1 | registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.8.1 | November 21, 2022 |
| This upgrade does not affect your services. |
v2.8.0 | registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.8.0 | November 21, 2022 |
| This upgrade does not affect your services. |
v2.7.5 | registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.7.5 | November 07, 2022 | Fixed an issue in v2.7.4 where RBAC resources were not cleaned up. | This upgrade does not affect your services. |
October 2022
Version | Image address | Modification Time | Changes | Impact |
v2.7.4 | registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.7.4 | October 28, 2022 |
| This upgrade does not affect your services. |
September 2022
Version | Image address | Change Time | Changes | Impact |
v2.7.3 | registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.7.3 | September 28, 2022 | Fixed an issue where annotations of registered nodes were not updated. | This upgrade does not affect your services. |
v2.7.2 | registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.7.2 | September 13, 2022 |
| This upgrade does not affect your services. |
August 2022
Version | Image address | Modification Time | Changes | Impact |
v2.7.1 | registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.7.1 | August 17, 2022 | Fixed an issue where pod creation occasionally failed. | This upgrade does not affect your services. |
v2.7.0 | registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.7.0 | August 02, 2022 |
| This upgrade does not affect your services. |
July 2022
Version | Image address | Last Modified Time | Changes | Impact |
v2.6.1 | registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.6.1 | July 05, 2022 | Fixed an occasional freeze issue during startup. | This upgrade does not affect your services. |
June 2022
Version | Image address | Modification Time | Changes | Impact |
v2.6.0 | registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.6.0 | June 16, 2022 |
| This upgrade does not affect your services. |
May 2022
Version | Image address | Update Time | Changes | Impact |
v2.5.4 | registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.5.4 | May 20, 2022 | Fixed a crash issue when configuring eci-profile | This upgrade does not affect your services. |
April 2022
Version | Image address | Modification Time | Changes | Impact |
v2.5.3 | registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.5.3 | April 28, 2022 |
| This upgrade does not affect your services. |
v2.5.2 | registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.5.2 | April 20, 2022 |
| This upgrade does not affect your services. |
March 2022
Version | Image address | Last Modified | Changes | Impact |
v2.5.1 | registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.5.1 | March 31, 2022 |
| This upgrade does not affect your services. |
v2.4.3 | registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.4.3 | March 17, 2022 | Fixed an issue where | This upgrade does not affect your services. |
January 2022
Version | Image address | Change Time | Changes | Impact |
v2.4.2 | registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.4.2 | January 11, 2022 |
| This upgrade does not affect your services. |
December 2021
Version | Image address | Modification Time | Changes | Impact |
v2.4.0 | registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.4.0 | December 28, 2021 |
| This upgrade does not affect your services. |
November 2021
Version | Image address | Modification Time | Changes | Impact |
v2.3.0 | registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.3.0 | November 15, 2021 |
| This upgrade does not affect your services. |
October 2021
Version | Image address | Last Modified | Changes | Impact |
v2.2.0 | registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.2.0 | October 26, 2021 | Optimized the query speed for events and status. | This upgrade does not affect your services. |
v2.1.0 | registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.1.0 | October 12, 2021 | New Features:
Bug Fixes:
Optimizations:
| This upgrade does not affect your services. |
May 2021
Version | Image address | Modification Time | Changes | Impact |
v2.0.0.122-bdb884460-aliyun | registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.0.0.122-bdb884460-aliyun | May 24, 2021 | Fixed an issue of duplicate node creation during concurrent operations. | This upgrade does not affect your services. |
v2.0.0.113-650b21c48-aliyun | registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.0.0.113-650b21c48-aliyun | May 13, 2021 | Added support for hot updates for PrivateZone. | This upgrade does not affect your services. |
v2.0.0.110-49c928287-aliyun | registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.0.0.110-49c928287-aliyun | May 06, 2021 | Added compatibility for the NodeSelector scheduling method. Pods with | This upgrade does not affect your services. |
April 2021
Version | Image address | Modification Time | Changes | Impact |
v2.0.0.102-045a06eb4-aliyun | registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.0.0.102-045a06eb4-aliyun | April 22, 2021 | Fixed a virtual node display issue. | This upgrade does not affect your services. |
v2.0.0.101-cd8bcfa04-aliyun | registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.0.0.101-cd8bcfa04-aliyun | April 16, 2021 | Optimized API calls to PrivateZone to avoid repeated calls to BindZoneVpc. | This upgrade does not affect your services. |
v2.0.0.93-ef86bbfa1-aliyun | registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.0.0.93-ef86bbfa1-aliyun | April 13, 2021 | Modified the value of eciLogtailMacheineGroupKey to be compatible with log collection features for both environment variables and CRDs. | This upgrade does not affect your services. |
v2.0.0.90-15deb126e-aliyun | registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.0.0.90-15deb126e-aliyun | April 06, 2021 | Added the ECI Profile feature. | This upgrade does not affect your services. |
March 2021
Version | Image address | Modification Time | Changes | Impact |
v2.0.0.86-9005a977d-aliyun | registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.0.0.86-9005a977d-aliyun | March 17, 2021 |
| This upgrade does not affect your services. |
February 2021
Version | Image address | Modification Time | Changes | Impact |
v2.0.0.80-f9a46a994-aliyun | registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.0.0.80-f9a46a994-aliyun | February 25, 2021 | Optimized the CreatePod status check: pods are now created only when their status is pending. | This upgrade does not affect your services. |
v2.0.0.76-6e9e19bd5-aliyun | registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.0.0.76-6e9e19bd5-aliyun | February 22, 2021 |
| This upgrade does not affect your services. |
December 2020
Version | Image address | Modification Time | Changes | Impact |
v2.0.0.618-7fd50d738-aliyun | registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v2.0.0.618-7fd50d738-aliyun | December 04, 2020 |
| Confirm that the VPC and security group configurations for ECI pods are correct and can access the cluster API server. Otherwise, pods will remain in a waiting state. |
September 2020
Version | Image address | Modification Time | Changes | Impact |
v1.0.0.10-aliyun | registry.cn-hangzhou.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v1.0.0.10-aliyun | September 21, 2020 | Added support for extending cluster elasticity by running application pods as serverless containers (ECI). | This upgrade does not affect your services. |
March 2020
Version | Image address | Modification Time | Changes | Impact |
v1.0.0.2-aliyun | registry-vpc.$RegionId.aliyuncs.com/acs/virtual-nodes-eci:v1.0.0.2-aliyun | March 12, 2020 |
| If your virtual-nodes-eci controller is deployed as a deployment, delete the ECI instances on the virtual-kubelet node before you update or redeploy the component. |