ACA Container and Serverless Services Flashcards

What is Alibaba Cloud Container Service for Kubernetes (ACK)?

Answer: A fully managed Kubernetes service that simplifies deploying and managing containerized applications

ACK is Alibaba Cloud's managed Kubernetes offering that handles the control plane, node provisioning, and upgrades so users can focus on running workloads.

Which Alibaba Cloud service is used as a private registry to store and manage Docker container images?

Answer: Container Registry (ACR)

Alibaba Cloud Container Registry (ACR) provides secure private repositories for storing, versioning, and distributing Docker and OCI-compatible container images.

What is Alibaba Cloud Elastic Container Instance (ECI)?

Answer: A serverless container runtime that runs pods without managing underlying nodes

ECI lets you run Kubernetes pods in a serverless fashion — you specify the container image and resources, and Alibaba Cloud handles all node-level infrastructure.

Which ACK cluster type provides the highest level of managed infrastructure by running worker nodes as serverless ECI pods?

Answer: Serverless Kubernetes Cluster (ASK)

Alibaba Cloud Serverless Kubernetes (ASK) runs workloads directly on ECI, eliminating both master and worker node management for a fully serverless Kubernetes experience.

What is Alibaba Cloud Function Compute (FC)?

Answer: An event-driven serverless compute service where you run code without provisioning servers

Function Compute is Alibaba Cloud's FaaS (Function-as-a-Service) offering that executes your code in response to events and automatically scales with no server management.

Which of the following can be used to trigger a Function Compute function automatically?

Answer: Events from OSS, API Gateway, Log Service, Timer, CDN, and more

Function Compute supports multiple trigger types including HTTP, OSS events, RocketMQ messages, Timer (cron), Log Service, API Gateway, and CDN, enabling event-driven architectures.