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October 2023

11 Oct

Private Preview: Regional Disaster Recovery by Azure Backup for AKS

IN PREVIEW

Customers can now utilize Azure Backup for AKS to recover their containerized applications and data during a regional disaster scenario.

  • Azure Backup
  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Features

September 2023

27 Sep

GA: Vertical Pod Autoscaling add-on for AKS

NOW AVAILABLE

Use Vertical Pod Autoscaling add-on for AKS to improve cost-efficiency, and cluster utilization for your workloads

  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Features
  • Open Source
27 Sep

GA: AKS image cleaner

NOW AVAILABLE

You can now automate the removal of all the unused, vulnerable images from your AKS nodes.

  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Features
27 Sep

GA: Dedicated table support for AKS diagnostics logs

NOW AVAILABLE

It is now easier and faster to query your logs.

  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Features
27 Sep

Public preview: AKS support for Kubernetes version 1.28

IN PREVIEW

Take advantage of the latest features in Kubernetes version 1.28 with AKS.

  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Features
  • Open Source
27 Sep

GA: Node OS patching - NodeImage feature in AKS

NOW AVAILABLE

You can have a flexible and customized strategy for node-level OS security updates.

  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Security
  • Features
22 Sep

Retirement: HTTP application routing add-on (preview) for AKS will retire 03/03/2025

Target retirement date: March 03, 2025

Transition your ingresses to Web Application routing add-on before 3/3/2025 to avoid service disruptions.

  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Retirements
7 Sep

Public Preview: Azure Container Storage Updates: Expanded regions and performance options

IN PREVIEW

Azure Container Storage (in preview) offers volume management built natively for containers. With the latest updates you can now deploy in 26 regions, use volume resize & cloning and choose from an expanded list of Disk SKUs.

  • Azure Container Storage
  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Azure Disk Storage
  • Azure Elastic SAN
  • Services
  • Regions & Datacenters
  • Features

August 2023

30 Aug

Generally Available: Auto-upgrade scheduled maintenance for AKS

NOW AVAILABLE

Target availability: Q3 2023

You can now have dedicated maintenance for weekly AKS releases, auto upgrades and Node OS patching.

  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Features
25 Aug

Retirement: Kubernetes 1.24 support in AKS

Target retirement date: August 16, 2023

Migrate to Kubernetes 1.25 or higher in AKS.

  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Retirements
16 Aug

Generally Available: Kubernetes 1.27 support in AKS

NOW AVAILABLE

Target availability: Q3 2023

You can now take advantage of Kubernetes release 1.27 enhancements in production.

  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Features
16 Aug

Generally Available: Private Link service integration

NOW AVAILABLE

Target availability: Q3 2023

You can now directly create a Private Link Service (PLS) for Kubernetes services via annotations in the service manifest file.

  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Features

July 2023

19 Jul

Public preview: Bring your own key on Ephemeral OS disk for AKS

IN PREVIEW

Target availability: Q3 2023

You can now use your own keys to encrypt your ephemeral OS disks.

  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Security
  • Features
19 Jul

Public preview: Network observability add-on for AKS

IN PREVIEW

Target availability: Q3 2023

You can now get complete observability into the network health and connectivity of your AKS cluster.

  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Azure Managed Grafana
  • Managed Prometheus
  • Features
19 Jul

Generally available: Event Grid upgrade enhancements for AKS

NOW AVAILABLE

Target availability: Q3 2023

You can now receive and programmatically handle AKS generated upgrade events in Event Grid

  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Event Grid
  • Features

June 2023

22 Jun

Public Preview: Network Observability add-on on AKS

IN PREVIEW

Enable network observability add-on on AKS clusters to gain insights into how your cluster operate and to identify potential problems before they cause outages or performance degradation.

  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Azure Monitor
  • Virtual Network
  • Services
  • Management
  • Features
13 Jun

Public preview: Add-on and node image in AKS release tracker

IN PREVIEW

More accurate information about specific add-ons and node images

  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Microsoft Build
  • Features
1 Jun

General Availability: Isovalent Cilium Enterprise through Azure Marketplace

NOW AVAILABLE

Target availability: Q2 2023

Isovalent Cilium Enterprise is now generally available through Azure Marketplace.

  • Virtual Network
  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Services
  • Microsoft Build
  • Features

May 2023

30 May

General availability: Azure CNI powered by Cilium

NOW AVAILABLE

Target availability: Q2 2023

Leverage next generation eBPF dataplane for pod networking, Kubernetes network policies and service load balancing.

  • Virtual Network
  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Services
  • Microsoft Build
  • Security
  • Features
23 May

General Availability: Azure Monitor managed service for Prometheus

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Monitor managed service for Prometheus is now Generally Available.

  • Azure Monitor
  • Managed Prometheus
  • Azure Managed Grafana
  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes
  • Pricing & Offerings
  • Microsoft Build
  • Management
  • Open Source

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