Kingsoft Cloud Container Instance
Kingsoft Cloud Container Instance (KCI) provides a serverless container service that enables you to run your containers in the cloud without having to purchase or manage the underlying servers. You only need to pay for the resources that your containers consume.
Benefits
Ease of Use
KCI enables you to run containers without having to manage the underlying servers and clusters, which greatly reduces the cost of using containers.
Secure Isolation
With the secure container technology of Kata Container, KCI provides the secure isolation capability of virtual machines while maintaining a fast startup time for containers.
Cost Efficiency
KCI enables you to select the container specifications that you need. You are billed for the amount of time you run container instances, in seconds. These can greatly reduce the cost of your resource usage.
Ecological Compatibility
KCI can be integrated with other products of Kingsoft Cloud, such as Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Server Load Balancing (SLB), and Elastic IP (EIP). Container instances can connect to a Kubernetes cluster through Virtual Kubelet and be scheduled like pods in a Kubernetes cluster. This allows KCI to have the orchestration capability of Kubernetes.
Features
Container Management
KCI enables you to manage the full lifecycle of your container groups. You can directly run containers without having to manage the underlying infrastructure.
Custom Specifications
KCI provides a variety of container group specifications. You can select different specifications as needed.
Observability
You can query the events, logs, and monitoring information of container groups to monitor your business status and troubleshoot errors.
Compatibility with Kubernetes
Container instances can connect to a Kubernetes cluster through Virtual Kubelet and scheduled like pods in a Kubernetes cluster.
Scenarios
Continuous Delivery in DevOps
Event-driven Business
Connect to Kubernetes Clusters
Continuous Delivery in DevOps
KCI helps your enterprise build a complete DevOps process from committing code to deploying applications. You can increase the efficiency of application iteration in your enterprise based on the elasticity of KCI.
Process Automation
KCI helps you automate your DevOps process by freeing you from the need to manage the underlying servers.
Environment Consistency
Container images are used as the standard packaging format to ensure consistency of the runtime environment. You only need to build an image once for running containers everywhere.
Pay-As-You-Go
KCI enables you to select the container specifications that you need. You are billed for the amount of time you run container instances, in seconds. This way, you do not need to pay for any unused resource.
Event-driven Business
KCI uses serverless containers, which are suitable for event-driven business. KCI provides high scalability and concurrency to facilitate your event processing.
High Scalability
KCI can scale out resources in seconds to meet the high concurrency requirements of your business scenarios.
Maintenance-free
KCI is compatible with Kubernetes and enables you to directly run your containers without having to manage the host servers and clusters.
Cost Efficiency
KCI enables you to select the container specifications that you need. You are billed for the amount of time you run container instances, in seconds. The billing automatically stops when your tasks are completed. These can greatly reduce the cost of your resource usage.
Related Services
Connect to Kubernetes Clusters
Container instances can connect to a Kubernetes cluster through Virtual Kubelet and be scheduled like pods in a Kubernetes cluster. KCI provides sufficient resources to ensure scalability of your Kubernetes clusters.
High Scalability
KCI provides a pool with sufficient resources to ensure scalability of your Kubernetes clusters.
High Efficiency
You can start containers without having to add servers.