Alibaba Cloud Container Service for Kubernetes (ACK) provides multiple storage components that offer enhanced storage features, such as automatic persistent volume expansion, disk specification modification, and resource monitoring. The storage-operator component manages the lifecycle of these storage components. This topic describes the storage-operator component and its release notes.
Component introduction
By default, storage-operator contains the following storage components:
storage-cnfs is responsible for the features provided by CNFS.
storage-controller is responsible for disk configuration modification and cross-zone migration.
storage-auto-expander is responsible for the auto scaling of volumes.
Usage notes
For more information about how to use the storage-operator component, see Manage the storage-operator component.
Release notes
August 2025
Version number | Image address | Changes | Date | Impact |
v1.33.1 | registry-{{regionID}}.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/storage-operator:v1.33.1-cb82bad |
| August 20, 2025 | This upgrade does not affect your workloads. |
v1.32.10 | registry-{{regionID}}.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/storage-operator:v1.32.10-aa189c8 | Optimized the memory usage of the storage-auto-expander component. | August 8, 2025 | This upgrade does not affect your workloads. |
May 2025
Version number | Image address | Changes | Date | Impact |
v1.32.9 | registry-{{regionID}}.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/storage-operator:v1.32.9 | Enhanced the security of the storage-cnfs and storage-controller components using the security hardening mode to access metadata. | May 14, 2025 | This upgrade does not affect your workloads. |
March 2025
Version number | Image address | Changes | Date | Impact |
v1.32.5 | registry-{{regionID}}.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/storage-operator:v1.32.5 | Fixed issues in the storage-cnfs component. | March 31, 2025 | This upgrade does not affect your workloads. |
v1.32.4 | registry-{{regionID}}.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/storage-operator:v1.32.4 |
| March 12, 2025 | This upgrade does not affect your workloads. |
September 2024
Version number | Image address | Changes | Date | Impact |
v1.31.1 | registry-{{regionID}}.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/storage-operator:v1.31.1 |
| September 26, 2024 | This upgrade does not affect your workloads. |
July 2024
Version number | Image address | Changes | Date | Impact |
v1.30.2 | registry-{{regionID}}.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/storage-operator:v1.30.2 | Optimized component logs. | July 12, 2024 | This upgrade does not affect your workloads. |
May 2024
Version number | Image address | Changes | Date | Impact |
v1.30.1 | registry-{{regionID}}.ack.aliyuncs.com/acs/storage-operator:v1.30.1 | Updated dependencies and disabled older versions of Transport Layer Security (TLS) to improve system security. | May 31, 2024 | This upgrade does not affect your workloads. |
January 2024
Version number | Image address | Changes | Date | Impact |
v1.28.2-be0cf84-aliyun | registry.cn-{{regionID}}.aliyuncs.com/acs/storage-operator:v1.28.2-be0cf84-aliyun | Fixed issues in the storage-controller component. | January 17, 2024 | This upgrade does not affect your workloads. |
December 2023
Version number | Image address | Changes | Date | Impact |
v1.28.1-4e62141-aliyun | registry.cn-{{regionID}}.aliyuncs.com/acs/storage-operator:v1.28.1-4e62141-aliyun |
| December 25, 2023 | This upgrade does not affect your workloads. |
October 2023
Version number | Image address | Changes | Modification Time | Impact |
v1.26.2-1de13b6-aliyun | registry.cn-{{regionID}}.aliyuncs.com/acs/storage-operator:v1.26.2-1de13b6-aliyun |
| October 25, 2023 | This upgrade does not affect your workloads. |
July 2023
Version number | Image address | Changes | Date | Impact |
v1.26.1-50a1499-aliyun | registry.cn-{{regionID}}.aliyuncs.com/acs/storage-operator:v1.26.1-50a1499-aliyun | Fixed several monitoring and snapshot issues. | July 2, 2023 | This upgrade does not affect your workloads. |
February 2023
Version number | Image address | Changes | Date | Impact |
v1.24.102-b1cfa3d-aliyun | registry.cn-{{regionID}}.aliyuncs.com/acs/storage-operator:v1.24.102-b1cfa3d-aliyun | Added the storage-controller component, which lets you change disk types. | February 6, 2023 | This upgrade does not affect your workloads. |
November 2022
Version number | Image address | Changes | Date | Impact |
v1.24.97-3eb7acc-aliyun | registry.cn-{{regionID}}.aliyuncs.com/acs/storage-operator:v1.24.97-3eb7acc-aliyun |
| November 2, 2022 | This upgrade does not affect your workloads. |
September 2022
Version number | Image address | Changes | Date | Impact |
v1.24.95-e2d0756-aliyun | registry.cn-{{regionID}}.aliyuncs.com/acs/storage-operator:v1.24.95-e2d0756-aliyun | Updated storage-cnfs-controller to v1.24.31-262bf31-aliyun. | September 27, 2022 | This upgrade does not affect your workloads. |
August 2022
Version number | Image address | Changes | Date | Impact |
v1.22.91-c4d5ab4-aliyun | registry.cn-{{regionID}}.aliyuncs.com/acs/csi-plugin:v1.22.91-c4d5ab4-aliyun | Added storage metric collection. | August 25, 2022 | This upgrade does not affect your workloads. |
July 2022
Version number | Image address | Changes | Date | Impact |
v1.22.86-041b094-aliyun | registry.cn-{{regionID}}.aliyuncs.com/acs/csi-plugin:v1.22.86-041b094-aliyun |
| July 13, 2022 | This upgrade does not affect your workloads. |
May 2022
Version number | Image address | Changes | Date | Impact |
v1.22.8-aa22537-aliyun | registry.cn-{{region}}.aliyuncs.com/acs/storage-operator:v1.22.8-aa22537-aliyun | Modified the YAML files for disk snapshots. | May 13, 2022 | This upgrade does not affect your workloads. |
April 2022
Version number | Image address | Changes | Date | Impact |
v1.22.0.75-5bc07f7-aliyun | registry.cn-{{region}}.aliyuncs.com/acs/storage-operator:v1.22.0.75-5bc07f7-aliyun | Added support for the advanced disk snapshot feature. | April 14, 2022 | This upgrade does not affect your workloads. |
March 2022
Version number | Image address | Changes | Date | Impact |
v1.18.8.68-9078250-aliyun | registry.cn-{{regionID}}.aliyuncs.com/acs/storage-operator:v1.18.8.68-9078250-aliyun | Patched security vulnerabilities in the CentOS 7 base image. | March 16, 2022 | This upgrade does not affect your workloads. |
December 2021
Version number | Image address | Changes | Date | Impact |
v1.18.8.67-c1aef60-aliyun | registry.cn-{{regionID}}.aliyuncs.com/acs/storage-operator:v1.18.8.67-c1aef60-aliyun | Fixed issues with NAS file systems where quota changes were slow to take effect and automatic expansion failed. | December 22, 2021 | This upgrade does not affect your workloads. |
September 2021
Version number | Image address | Changes | Date | Impact |
v1.18.8.60-a5ba617-aliyun | registry-vpc.${region}.aliyuncs.com/acs/storage-operator:v1.18.8.60-a5ba617-aliyun |
| September 24, 2021 | This upgrade does not affect your workloads. |
August 2021
Version number | Image address | Changes | Modification Time | Impact |
v1.18.8.55-e398ce5-aliyun | registry-vpc.${region}.aliyuncs.com/acs/storage-operator:v1.18.8.55-e398ce5-aliyun |
| August 16, 2021 | This upgrade does not affect your workloads. |
June 2021
Version number | Image address | Changes | Date | Impact |
v1.18.8.37-c63030b-aliyun | registry-vpc.${region}.aliyuncs.com/acs/storage-operator:v1.18.8.37-c63030b-aliyun |
| June 25, 2021 | This upgrade does not affect your workloads. |
March 2021
Version number | Image address | Changes | Date | Impact |
v1.18.8.28-18cca7b-aliyun | registry-vpc.${region}.aliyuncs.com/acs/storage-operator:v1.18.8.28-18cca7b-aliyun | New features:
| March 25, 2021 | This upgrade does not affect your workloads. |