What Are the Differences Between Cloud Container Instance and Cloud Container Engine?

CCE provides highly scalable, high-performance, enterprise-class Kubernetes clusters and supports Docker containers. CCE is a one-stop container platform that provides full-stack container services from Kubernetes cluster management, lifecycle management of containerized applications, application service mesh, and Helm charts to add-on management, application scheduling, and monitoring and O&M. With CCE, you can easily deploy, manage, and scale containerized applications on Huawei Cloud.

For details, see What Is Cloud Container Engine?

CCI is a serverless container engine that allows you to run containers without creating and managing server clusters. With CCI, you only need to manage containerized services running on Kubernetes. You can quickly create and run containerized workloads on CCI without managing clusters and servers.

With the serverless architecture, you can focus on building and operating applications without having to create or manage servers, not to mention the issues caused by abnormal server running. All you have to do is to specify resource requirements (on CPU and memory, for example). This gives you a more focused approach to business needs and helps you reduce management and maintenance costs. Traditionally, to run containerized workloads using Kubernetes, you need to create a Kubernetes cluster first.

CCE is a hosted Kubernetes service for container management. It allows you to create native Kubernetes clusters with just a few clicks.

You need to create clusters and nodes on the console, but you do not need to manage master nodes.

CCI provides a serverless container engine. When deploying containers on Huawei Cloud, you do not need to purchase and manage ECSs, eliminating the need for O&M and management.

You can start applications without the need to create clusters, master nodes, or worker nodes.

Pricing

Resources are charged.

CPU (core-hour) and memory (GiB-hour)

Billing mode

Yearly/Monthly and pay-per-use

Pay-per-use

Minimum pricing unit

Hour

Second

Applicable to all scenarios. Generally, CCE runs large-scale and long-term stable applications, such as e-commerce, service middle-end, and IT system.

Applicable to batch computing, high-performance computing, burst scale-out, and CI/CD tests.

Configure basic information (name, Region, networking, and compute) > Create a worker node > Configure the cluster > Create a workload.

Configure basic information (name, Region, networking, and compute) > Create a workload.