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Container Service for Kubernetes:storage-operator

Last Updated:Aug 22, 2025

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.

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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

  • The storage-cnfs component is split into a managed component named cnfs-controller, which is separately published to Component Center. For compatibility, the cnfs-controller component is automatically installed when you upgrade or install storage-operator.

  • The sub-component management mode is removed. The features of the original storage-auto-expander and storage-controller components are now built into storage-operator and no longer need to be managed using a ConfigMap.

  • You can use FeatureGates to enable or disable features.

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

  • Unpublished the storage-monitor component. Its features are replaced by the storage-cnfs component.

  • The storage-cnfs component supports capacity monitoring for NAS volumes and publishes alert events on persistent volume claims (PVCs) when the available capacity drops below 15%.

  • Fixed an issue where the storage-auto-expander component repeatedly attempted to expand NAS volumes.

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

  • Upgraded the Alpine base image for the storage-controller component to version 3.18.

  • Added support for byte-level capacity monitoring of NAS volumes to the storage-monitor component.

  • Fixed issues in the storage-auto-expander component and upgraded its Alpine base image to version 3.18.

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

  • Fixed issues in the storage-monitor component.

  • Changed the component's base image to Alpine.

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

  • Updated storage-controller to v1.26.2-639bc21-aliyun to support cross-zone migration of stateful applications that use enterprise SSDs (ESSDs).

  • Updated storage-cnfs to v1.24.39-0e24b92-aliyun. This version supports versioning for Object Storage Service (OSS) buckets and automatic creation and association of StorageClasses for NAS volumes.

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

  • Updated storage-snapshot-manager to v1.22.1-464f816-aliyun.

  • Fixed an issue that caused storage-snapshot-manager to crash occasionally in clusters with virtual nodes.

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

  • Added support for the acceleration feature of CNFS clients. This feature is disabled by default. For more information, see Enable the distributed cache feature for CNFS NAS clients.

  • Fixed an array-index out of bounds error that occurred in the auto-expansion component when disk usage exceeded 100%.

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

  • Enabled the Quota feature by default to support automatic expansion when NAS file systems are managed by CNFS.

  • Fixed an issue where pods were scheduled to unavailable nodes.

  • Added support for scheduling pods to Linux nodes and non-virtual nodes.

  • Fixed an issue where the CNFS status could not be changed.

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

  • Added support for creating Capacity NAS file systems by default using CNFS.

  • Set the default value of the archiveOnDelete parameter to false in the StorageClass that is automatically created by CNFS. When a persistent volume (PV) is deleted, its corresponding subdirectory is also deleted by default.

  • Fixed an issue where the storage-monitor component consumed excessive CPU resources.

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

  • Added support for automatic expansion.

  • Added support for CNFS.

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:

  • Added support for batch snapshots.

  • Added support for scheduled snapshots.

  • Added support for cluster monitoring.

March 25, 2021

This upgrade does not affect your workloads.