Function Overview

CCE Autopilot is a serverless Kubernetes service provided by CCE. It allows you to run containerized applications without the need to worry about the O&M.

Compared with CCE standard and Turbo clusters, CCE Autopilot clusters have the following advantages:

• Serverless product: Clusters are fully managed. You do not need to deploy, manage, or maintain nodes. This makes CCE Autopilot easy to use and saves O&M costs.
• Resource pooling: A serverless converged resource pool is used to manage resources such as vCPUs, memory, and GPUs, reducing resource fragments and enabling on-demand use and pay-per-use billing of container resources.
• Comprehensive performance optimization: Resource pool resources are pre-provisioned dynamically so that workloads can automatically be scaled in seconds.

By using CCE Autopilot, you can deploy applications without purchasing and maintaining nodes, or planning the capacity. You only need to focus on the implementation of application service logic, which effectively reduces O&M costs and improves the reliability and scalability of applications.

Before using CCE Autopilot, you need to purchase a cluster. You can connect to, upgrade, delete, and monitor a cluster, and manage cluster permissions.

CCE Autopilot supports Cloud Native Network 2.0, which is a next-generation container network developed by Huawei. It allows elastic network interfaces and supplementary network interfaces to be bound to pods directly. In this way, each pod in a VPC has an independent IP address. Cloud Native Network 2.0 has higher security and reliability. With Cloud Native Network 2.0, pods can be accessed directly, security groups can be associated with pods, and EIPs can be bound to pods for internet access. In addition, compared with the container tunnel network and VPC network, Cloud Native Network 2.0 does not require container tunnel encapsulation and NAT, and provides higher network performance.

CCE Autopilot provides the following ways for accessing applications: ClusterIP Service (access within a cluster), LoadBalancer Service (load balancing), Headless Service (access between pods), Ingress (load balancing at Layer 7), and EIP.

Container storage is implemented based on the Kubernetes Container Storage Interface (CSI). It is deeply integrated with Huawei Cloud storage services and fully compatible with native Kubernetes storage types.

CCE Autopilot can work with EVS, OBS, and SFS for persistent data storage. It also supports Kubernetes built-in storage types, such as emptyDir, secrets, and ConfigMaps.

• HPA policies implement horizontal scaling of pods in Kubernetes. In an HPA policy, you can configure cooldown interval and scaling thresholds based on the Kubernetes HPA.
• CronHPA can scale in or out pods in a cluster at a fixed time. It can work with HPA policies to periodically adjust the HPA scaling scope for workload scaling in complex scenarios.

CCE Autopilot clusters allow you to configure log policies for collecting, managing, and analyzing workload logs periodically to prevent logs from being over-sized. In addition, CCE Autopilot clusters allow you to use the Cloud Native Log Collection add-on (log-agent) to collect logs.

CCE Autopilot can comprehensively monitor the resource usages and statuses, and network traffic of workloads. CCE Autopilot displays metrics using graphs from different dimensions for association analysis.

CCE Autopilot supports metric and event alarms. You can quickly search for and configure alarms in Alarm Center.

CCE Autopilot allows you to use Helm charts to manage and schedule resources based on the Kubernetes Helm standard, simplifying the installation and management of Kubernetes resources through quick deployment and maintenance. Those who release applications can use Helm charts to package applications, manage application dependencies and application versions, and release applications to the software repository.

By using Helm charts, you do not need to compile complex application deployment files. You can easily search for, install, upgrade, roll back, and uninstall applications.

CCE Autopilot provides multiple types of add-ons to extend cluster functions.

CCE Autopilot permissions management allows you to assign permissions to IAM users and user groups under your tenant accounts. It combines the advantages of IAM and RBAC to provide a variety of authorization methods, including IAM fine-grained/token authorization and cluster-/namespace-scoped authorization.