Introduction and release notes for the edge-cloud-provider-manager component - Container Service for Kubernetes

edge-cloud-provider-manager is the cloud resource manager of the ACK edge cluster. This topic describes the basic information and release notes for edge-cloud-provider-manager.

Introduction

edge-cloud-provider-manager (ECPM) is a managed component of the ACK edge cluster. It is installed automatically, and is used to send the trace data to downstream Alibaba Cloud services, such as Edge Load Balancer (ELB), Edge Node Service (ENS), Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Elastic IP Address (EIP), and Classic Load Balancer (CLB). edge-cloud-provider-manager can provide the following capabilities:

Manage resources required by the Raven component, such as CLB, EIP, and access control list (ACL).
Manage ELB: If you set Type=LoadBalancer and LoadBalancerClass=alibabacloud.com/elb for a Service, ECPM manages the Load Balancer, backend servers, and listeners of the node pool selected by the Service.

Release notes

July 2024

Version	Image address	Release date	Description	Impact
v1.0.1	registry-cn-hangzhou.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/edge-cloud-provider-manager:v1.0.1	July 15, 2024	Support dynamic management of cloud resources required by the Raven component, such as CLB, EIP, and ACL. Support multi-region ELB instances. For more information, see Use ELB instances to expose Services in multiple regions.	This update has no negative impact on workloads.