Scenarios such as 5G, AR and AIoT are driving the evolution of next-generation cloud architectures, while containers are reshaping the way clouds are used. In order to help enterprises make full use of the new generation of cloud architecture, Alibaba researcher and ali Cloud native application platform leader Ding Yu announced at the Alibaba Cloud Computing Summit in Shanghai on September 26, 2021 that Ali Cloud container services were fully upgraded to ACK Anywhere, allowing enterprises to use cloud Anywhere. All get consistent container infrastructure capabilities.

Previously, ali cloud introduced more than a cloud deployment architecture of the form, provide the center edge cloud, local cloud, cloud, cloud box and various deployment form, ACKAnywhere ability of comprehensive upgrade means that the public cloud to localization further extension, customers in the self-built within the data center can also experience the low cost, low latency, localization, public cloud products.

ACK Anywhere: a new generation container platform for “computing without boundaries and carrying infinity”

With the popularization of cloud computing and the development of cloud native technology, container service has become a necessary infrastructure for companies to use cloud. Ding Yu said that the upgraded ACK Anywhere has “consistent experience, elastic computing power, capacity sinking, simplified DISASTER recovery” four core capabilities, so that enterprises in any business scenarios using container services, can achieve unified cluster management, unified resource scheduling, unified data disaster recovery and unified application delivery.

It is reported that ACK Anywhere support center cloud, local cloud, edge cloud container cluster unified management, at the same time to support customer self-built cluster and other cloud Kubernetes cluster unified management; With strong elastic computing power and hosted elastic nodes, enterprises can expand their capacity from the local to the cloud as needed, achieving second-scale expansion and coping with periodic or unexpected business traffic peaks.

Thanks to the rich product capabilities of Ali Cloud public cloud, ACK Anywhere can deploy mature cloud native observation and security protection capabilities to the user environment, and can also sink the advanced middleware, data analysis and AI capabilities of cloud to the local area to meet customers’ demands for product richness and data control and accelerate business innovation.

Business continuity is the focus of modern enterprise IT architecture. ACK Anywhere built-in backup center realizes the integration of backup, disaster recovery and migration. Support Kubernetes cluster configuration and data volume backup recovery. With aliyun’s rich experience in multi-active SERVICE Dr, aliyun helps enterprises comprehensively improve system stability and business continuity.

ACK Distro: Secure, easy to use, and open Kubernetes distribution

In order to better meet the needs of customers to deploy Kubernetes clusters in their data centers, ACK Anywhere has introduced a new member, ACK Distro, to enable enterprises to enjoy the same secure and reliable enterprise capabilities as ACK Distro on their own infrastructure.

ACK Distro is AliCloud’s Kubernetes distribution for heterogeneous IaaS environments, with industry-leading security and reliability for its core components, which have been through mass production applications by hundreds of thousands of external customers. At the same time, supporting multiple chip architectures and heterogeneous hardware environments ensures that ACK Distro can run on a diverse infrastructure and exploit its full potential.

In Gartner’s latest report on global Container Public Cloud Competition Pattern, Ali Cloud became the only Chinese enterprise selected for the third consecutive year by relying on more than 10 years of container technology reserves and actual combat experience. Its products cover Serverless container, service grid, security sandbox container, hybrid cloud and edge container, etc. It is one of the most complete service providers covering the key capabilities of container products in the world.

“Enterprise digital innovation may not have a unified path, but after practice test, cloud native is the shortest path of enterprise digital innovation”, Ding Yu said, Ali cloud native is committed to government, manufacturing, transportation, Internet, finance, retail and other thousands of industries, to provide digital innovation technology base.