To allow you to use all capabilities directly in Distributed Cloud Container Platform for Kubernetes (ACK One) GitOps, Application Center of Container Service for Kubernetes (ACK) will stop updating features and will be discontinued. Starting from October 31, 2023, you can no longer create applications in Application Center. Application Center will be deprecated on December 31, 2023 and then migrated to ACK One GitOps. You can migrate the corresponding Application Center configuration to ACK One GitOps.
Time
Starting from October 31, 2023, you can no longer create applications in Application Center.
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.
Scope of impacts
All clusters that use Application Center are affected.
Impacts
Application Center will be deprecated on December 31, 2023 and you cannot maintain the existing applications in Application Center. Your existing businesses will also be affected.
You need to pay close attention to this change and migrate your applications to ACK One GitOps. For more information, see Migrate applications from Application Center to ACK One GitOps.
Solution
You can use similar features provided by ACK One GitOps. ACK One GitOps can manage applications for you, is completely compatible with ArgoCD, and supports continuous iterations. You can use Git repositories as data sources to deploy applications instead of distributing YAML templates.
ACK One GitOps provides an Alibaba Cloud account-based authentication system, fully-managed control planes, and serverless data planes. ACK One GitOps is an out-of-the-box and O&M-free platform. You can use the multi-cluster management capabilities of ACK One to deploy applications to multiple clusters through GitOps. ACK One GitOps can work with Container Registry Enterprise Edition and distributed Argo workflows to help enterprises.
You can directly manage newly created applications in ACK One GitOps.
You can use onectl to batch migrate existing applications to ACK One GitOps in an automated manner. For more information, see Use onectl to migrate applications to ACK One GitOps in an automated manner.
