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:
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.
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:
| No impact on workloads |