What's New

Updated on 2025/04/22 GMT+08:00

The tables below describe the functions released in each Ubiquitous Cloud Native Service version and corresponding documentation updates. New features will be successively launched in each region.

April 2025

No.

Feature

Description

Phase

Document

1

Support for Kubernetes clusters 1.31

UCS allows you to manage Kubernetes clusters from version 1.19 to 1.31.

Commercial use

Notes and Constraints

January 2025

No.

Feature

Description

Phase

Document

1

Support for Kubernetes clusters 1.30

UCS allows you to manage Kubernetes clusters from version 1.19 to 1.30.

Commercial use

Notes and Constraints

March 2024

No.

Feature

Description

Phase

Document

1

Support for Kubernetes clusters 1.27 and 1.28

UCS allows you to manage Kubernetes clusters from version 1.19 to 1.28.

Commercial use

Notes and Constraints

November 2023

No.

Feature

Description

Phase

Document

1

Modification to workload policies

You can edit FederatedHPA and CronFederatedHPA policies on the UCS console.

Commercial use

Workload Scaling

2

Federation version upgrade

You can upgrade a federation to a later version to gain access to new functions.

Commercial use

Upgrading a Federation

August 2023

No.

Feature

Description

Phase

Document

1

Obtaining resource information using a cluster federation

You can use kubectl to connect a cluster to a federation to obtain information about resources such as pods, nodes, and events, and to use exec and logs for fault locating.

Commercial use

Using kubectl to Connect to a Federation

2

Separate workload distribution policy for a cluster federation

The policy center allows you to configure policies to maintain resource compliance. You can take protective measures on clusters to ensure that all resources are compliant.

Commercial use

Policy Center

3

CronFederatedHPA for a cluster federation

CronFederatedHPA is a scheduled scaling mechanism for multi-cluster deployment. It scales in or out pods for workloads in multiple clusters at regular intervals. It can work with FederatedHPA for workload scaling in complex scenarios.

Commercial use

CronFederatedHPA

4

FederatedHPA for a cluster federation

FederatedHPA is an automatic scaling mechanism for multi-cluster deployment. It provides higher flexibility for workload scaling across multiple clusters and improves the overall scaling threshold, stability, and resource usage of multiple clusters.

Commercial use

FederatedHPA

July 2023

No.

Feature

Description

Phase

Document

1

Backup and restoration of on-premises clusters

UCS allows you to back up the certificates, materials used in encryption and decryption, and etcd data on the three master nodes in an on-premises cluster and use backups to restore data when a cluster becomes faulty.

Commercial use

Backup and Restoration

2

RBAC authorization for cluster federations

UCS allows you to perform refined permissions management by federation based on Huawei Cloud IAM. You can also create native Kubernetes RBAC resources in a federation for the refined management of federation access permissions.

Commercial use

RBAC Authorization for Cluster Federations

April 2023

No.

Feature

Description

Phase

Document

1

Enabling cluster federations for fleets

Cluster federation is a multi-cloud and hybrid cloud container solution. It is the cumulation of Huawei Cloud's years of experience in the container cloud field and the advanced Karmada technology of the community. The solution provides you with capabilities such as unified management of cross-cloud clusters, unified deployment of applications in multiple clusters, cross-cluster auto scaling and service discovery, and automatic application failover.

Commercial use

Enabling Cluster Federation

2

Policy center

The policy center allows you to configure policies to maintain resource compliance. You can take protective measures on clusters to ensure that all resources are compliant.

Commercial use

Policy Center

3

On-premises clusters

An on-premises cluster is a Kubernetes cluster provisioned by UCS but running on your data center infrastructure, offering flexibility, high performance, and security.

Commercial use

On-Premises Clusters

October 2022

No.

Feature

Description

Phase

Document

1

OBT release of Huawei Cloud clusters

With UCS, you are now able to run cloud native applications wherever you need them.

Open beta testing

What Is Huawei Cloud UCS?