The Eclipse Ankaios project community announced the general availability of Eclipse Ankaios 1.0.0, the first major stable release of the open source workload and container orchestrator tailored for automotive High-Performance Computing (HPC) platforms and embedded environments.

Eclipse Ankaios provides a lightweight, powerful solution for managing containerised applications across multiple nodes and virtual machines using a unified API, helping automotive developers orchestrate distributed workloads with minimal overhead. Originally incubated within the Eclipse Software Defined Vehicle (SDV) Working Group, the project has gained traction as a key piece of software for next-generation vehicle architectures.

What’s new in 1.0.0

The 1.0.0 release marks a significant step forward from previous versions, bringing a host of improvements, bug fixes, and new features designed to strengthen usability and expand functionality. Key highlights include:

Improved Usability and CLI Enhancements

• User-friendly error messages for malformed CLI manifests.
• New CLI flag for initial state response output in event streams.

Feature additions

• Support for event handling and Podman-kube control interface for Kubernetes deployments.
• Flexible agent attributes (tags) and runtime whitelisting support.
• Re-use of existing container bundles when restarting workloads.
• JSON Schema constraints and other enhancements to internal APIs.

Robust bug fixes

• Stabilisation of unit tests and fixes for shell completions across Zsh and Bash.
• Reliability improvements in workload state handling and logger setup.

Documentation updates

• Additional user documentation, including guides for new event support.

Ecosystem and industry impact

Eclipse Ankaios aims to simplify software complexity in modern vehicles by offering a slim, scalable orchestrator that manages workloads without the heavy resource footprint typical of traditional cloud solutions, a critical requirement for automotive and embedded use cases.

By embracing open source development within the Eclipse SDV community, Ankaios facilitates collaboration across industry players, accelerates innovation, and provides a vendor-neutral platform for managing software in SDVs.

Availability

The v1.0.0 binaries, source code, and additional assets are available now via the official GitHub release page of the Eclipse Ankaios project.