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Container Service for Kubernetes:[Discontinued] appcenter

Last Updated:May 09, 2024

The appcenter component enables centralized management of application deployment and application lifecycle across multiple clusters. You can manage the appcenter component in the Application Center module of the Container Service for Kubernetes (ACK) console. This topic introduces the appcenter component and describes the usage notes and release notes for the component.

Usage notes

ACK no longer releases new versions for appcenter because Application Center will be phased out soon. ACK also stops providing feature updates for appcenter and progressively discontinues support for appcenter. Application Center will be replaced by ACK One GitOps in the future. Details:

  1. Starting from October 31, 2023, you can no longer create applications in Application Center.

  2. Application Center will be deprecated on December 31, 2023 and you cannot maintain the existing applications in Application Center. Your exiting businesses will also be affected.

Important

We recommend that you use Distributed Cloud Container Platform for Kubernetes (ACK One) GitOps to deploy applications. For existing applications, we recommend that you refer to the relevant topics to migrate the applications from Application Center to ACK One GitOps. For more information, see Best practices for ACK One GitOps.

Introduction

Application Center provides a unified portal for your applications. This helps you understand how your applications are deployed in a unified view. Application Center allows you to view your applications in a global manner. You can also view the deployment status and changes of all Kubernetes subresources allocated to each application. In addition, Git and Helm charts are used to deploy applications in ACK clusters based on application versions. This allows you to publish or roll back applications that are deployed in ACK clusters.

Usage notes

For more information about how to use appcenter, see Application Center overview.

Release notes

October 2022

Version

Image address

Release date

Description

Impact

v2.4.14.1-d27daa8-aliyun

registry.cn-hangzhou.aliyuncs.com/acs/appcenter-installer:v2.4.14.1-d27daa8-aliyun

2022-10-27

The issue that clusters of Kubernetes 1.24 cannot be added to Application Center is fixed.

No impact on workloads

August 2022

Version

Image address

Release date

Description

Impact

v2.2.5.4-8ec6d31-aliyun

registry.cn-hangzhou.aliyuncs.com/acs/appcenter-installer:v2.2.5.4-8ec6d31-aliyun

2022-08-23

The feature of using Resource Access Management (RAM) users and triggers to update applications is optimized.

No impact on workloads

July 2022

Version

Image address

Release date

Description

Impact

v2.2.5.2-df44050-aliyun

registry.cn-hangzhou.aliyuncs.com/acs/appcenter-installer:v2.2.5.2-df44050-aliyun

2022-07-18

AccessKey pairs can be used to access orchestration templates.

No impact on workloads

March 2022

Version

Image address

Release date

Description

Impact

v2.2.5.1-7fcb8c2-aliyun

registry.cn-hangzhou.aliyuncs.com/acs/appcenter-installer:v2.2.5.1-7fcb8c2-aliyun

2022-03-31

The images of applications can be automatically updated.

No impact on workloads

v2.2.5.0-35d527f-aliyun

registry.cn-hangzhou.aliyuncs.com/acs/appcenter-installer:v2.2.5.0-35d527f-aliyun

2022-03-15

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) vulnerabilities are patched.

No impact on workloads

January 2022

Version

Image address

Release date

Description

Impact

v2.1.3.3-7f4fce2-aliyun

registry.cn-hangzhou.aliyuncs.com/acs/appcenter-installer:v2.1.3.3-7f4fce2-aliyun

2022-01-11

The issue that templates cannot be associated with RAM users when you use RAM users and triggers to automatically update applications deployed by using templates is fixed.

No impact on workloads

December 2021

Version

Image address

Release date

Description

Impact

v2.1.3.2-308e5f3-aliyun

registry.cn-hangzhou.aliyuncs.com/acs/appcenter-installer:v2.1.3.2-308e5f3-aliyun

2021-12-01

The issue that the component does not run as expected due to network policies is fixed.

No impact on workloads

October 2021

Version

Image address

Release date

Description

Impact

v2.1.3.1-64ae609-aliyun

registry.cn-hangzhou.aliyuncs.com/acs/appcenter-installer:v2.1.3.1-64ae609-aliyun

2021-10-14

The stability of the appcenter component is enhanced.

No impact on workloads

June 2020

Version

Image address

Release date

Description

Impact

v1.0.1.1-a97c8f0-aliyun

registry.cn-hangzhou.aliyuncs.com/acs/appcenter-installer:v1.0.1.1-a97c8f0-aliyun

2020-06-22

New features:

  • An application can be deployed to multiple clusters at a time.

  • Application triggers are supported.

No impact on workloads