You can use the aliyun-acr-credential-helper component to pull private images without a password from instances of Container Registry Enterprise Edition and Personal Edition. This topic describes the features, usage notes, and release notes for aliyun-acr-credential-helper.
Introduction
aliyun-acr-credential-helper retrieves the required information from the acr-configuration ConfigMap that is created in the kube-system namespace and then pulls private images. The following features are supported:
You can pull private images from instances of Container Registry Enterprise Edition and Container Registry Personal Edition.
You can use aliyun-acr-credential-helper to pull private images from your Container Registry instances. You can also pull private images from other accounts after authorization or by using an AccessKey ID and the corresponding AccessKey secret.
You can use aliyun-acr-credential-helper to pull private images from Container Registry instances that are deployed in different regions.
Usage notes
For more information about how to use aliyun-acr-credential-helper, see Use the aliyun-acr-credential-helper component to pull images without using a secret or Use the aliyun-acr-credential-helper component to pull images without using a password.
Release notes
September 2024
Version | Image address | Release date | Description | Impact |
v24.09.05.1-e65351a-aliyun | registry-{{.Region}}-vpc.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/aliyun-acr-credential-helper:v24.09.05.1-e65351a-aliyun | 2024-09-05 | aliyun-acr-credential-helper: The issue with the invalid Secret that occasionally occurs in v24.08.01.1-1aa1880-aliyun is fixed. | This update has no negative impact on workloads. |
August 2024
Version | Image address | Release date | Description | Impact |
v24.08.01.1-1aa1880-aliyun | registry-{{.Region}}-vpc.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/aliyun-acr-credential-helper:v24.08.01.1-1aa1880-aliyun | 2024-08-26 | aliyun-acr-credential-helper: Permissions to the Secret is limited. | This update has no negative impact on workloads. |
May 2024
Version | Image address | Release date | Description | Impact |
v24.01.29.1-5318af4-aliyun | registry-{{.Region}}-vpc.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/aliyun-acr-credential-helper:v24.01.29.1-5318af4-aliyun | 2024-05-10 | managed-aliyun-acr-credential-helper: The error handling for failed API calls is fixed. | This update has no negative impact on workloads. |
January 2024
Version | Image address | Release date | Description | Impact |
v24.01.16.1-aeea43b-aliyun | registry-{{.Region}}-vpc.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/aliyun-acr-credential-helper:v24.01.16.1-aeea43b-aliyun | 2024-01-22 | Some known issues are fixed. | This update has no negative impact on workloads. |
April 2023
Version | Image address | Release date | Description | Impact |
v23.02.06.2-74e2172-aliyun | registry.cn-hangzhou.aliyuncs.com/acs/aliyun-acr-credential-helper:v23.02.06.2-74e2172-aliyun | 2023-04-04 | The component do not need to rely on the worker role and can rely on the worker role or managed role. | This update has a negative impact on the usage of the component. For more information, see [Product Changes] Revoke the permissions on which aliyun-acr-credential-helper relies. |
March 2023
Version | Image address | Release date | Description | Impact |
v23.02.06.1-74e2172-aliyun | registry.cn-hangzhou.aliyuncs.com/acs/aliyun-acr-credential-helper:v23.02.06.1-74e2172-aliyun | 2023-03-15 |
| This update has no negative impact on workloads. |
March 2022
Version | Image address | Release date | Description | Impact |
v22.03.25.1-efe240e-aliyun | registry.cn-hangzhou.aliyuncs.com/acs/aliyun-acr-credential-helper:v22.03.25.1-efe240e-aliyun | 2022-03-25 |
| This update has no negative impact on workloads. |
January 2022
Version | Image address | Release date | Description | Impact |
v22.01.04.0-f637776-aliyun | registry.cn-hangzhou.aliyuncs.com/acs/aliyun-acr-credential-helper:v22.01.04.0-f637776-aliyun | 2022-01-04 |
| This update has no negative impact on workloads. |
November 2021
Version | Image address | Release date | Description | Impact |
v21.11.15.0-19d8bc1-aliyun | registry.cn-hangzhou.aliyuncs.com/acs/aliyun-acr-credential-helper:v21.11.15.0-5d5867b-aliyun | 2021-11-15 | The API version of ClusterRoles is updated. | This update has no negative impact on workloads. |
September 2021
Version | Image address | Release date | Description | Impact |
v21.09.22.0-450db22-aliyun | registry.cn-hangzhou.aliyuncs.com/acs/aliyun-acr-credential-helper:v21.09.22.0-450db22-aliyun | 2021-09-22 | A cluster event is generated when an error occurs on the component. | This update has no negative impact on workloads. |
January 2021
Version | Image address | Release date | Description | Impact |
v21.01.26.0-9ac7d9b-aliyun | registry.cn-hangzhou.aliyuncs.com/acs/aliyun-acr-credential-helper:v21.01.26.0-9ac7d9b-aliyun | 2021-01-26 | The authentication methods are optimized. | This update has no negative impact on workloads. |
August 2020
Version | Image address | Release date | Description | Impact |
v20.08.20.0-c2da10b-aliyun | registry.cn-hangzhou.aliyuncs.com/acs/aliyun-acr-credential-helper:v20.08.20.0-c2da10b-aliyun | 2020-08-24 | The issue that private images fail to be pulled because the token is expired is fixed. | This update has no negative impact on workloads. |
July 2020
Version | Image address | Release date | Description | Impact |
v20.07.13.0-2866ccd-aliyun | registry.cn-hangzhou.aliyuncs.com/acs/aliyun-acr-credential-helper:v20.07.13.0-2866ccd-aliyun | 2020-07-13 | New features:
Optimization: The required number of API calls to pull an image is reduced. | This update has no negative impact on workloads. |
March 2020
Version | Image address | Release date | Description | Impact |
v20.03.16.0-36d5d7e-aliyun | registry.cn-hangzhou.aliyuncs.com/acs/aliyun-acr-credential-helper:v20.03.16.0-36d5d7e-aliyun | 2020-03-16 | New features: Private images can be pulled from a different account. | This update has no negative impact on workloads. |