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Public Preview: Azure Monitor announces Network Observability AKS add-on
The new Network Observability AKS add-on provides complete observability into the network health and connectivity of your AKS cluster.
Public preview: Automated deployments in AKS now supports Draft
Configure automated deployments to create a Dockerfile, build a container image and create Kubernetes deployment files directly from your source code.
Public preview: Azure Monitor managed service for Prometheus for Azure Arc-enabled Kubernetes
Azure Monitor managed service for Prometheus is now extending monitoring support for Kubernetes clusters hosted on Azure Arc.
Public Preview: Azure Monitor Container insights introduces "Cluster Optimization" workbook
Customers can now use Azure Monitor Container insights “Cluster Optimization” workbook to optimize container limits and request, identify event anomalies and detect liveness probe failures.
Generally Available: Azure Monitor announces managed services for Prometheus
Azure Monitor managed service for Prometheus delivers the best of the open-source ecosystem while automating complex tasks such as scaling, high-availability, and long-term data retention.
AKS DevX Extension Updates for Visual Studio Code
Easily create and deploy GitHub Actions to automate your deployments.
Public preview: Multi-cluster update support in Azure Kubernetes Fleet Manager
Orchestrate upgrades to your clusters in a planned manner across multiple clusters to achieve a consistent environment across a set of clusters.
Public preview: Custom node config for Windows
You can now modify the node configuration on Windows nodes, as you do with Linux.
Generally Available: Kubernetes marketplace
Access to a vibrant ecosystem of first-party and third-party solutions for building robust enterprise solutions.
Generally Available: Generation 2 VM for Windows
You can now run Windows workloads on Generation 2 VMs.
Generally Available: Azure Linux support in AKS
Deploy Azure Linux as the node pool host OS in the AKS cluster and build apps on top of the preferred container.
Public preview: New features in Azure Container Storage
Azure Container Storage, a unique storage provisioning and management service built natively for containers, is introducing several new features in preview.
Public preview: Azure Container Storage
Azure Container Storage is a new Azure service built natively for containers that enables customers to create and manage volumes for running production scale stateful container applications.
April 2023
Generally Available: Operation Abort in AKS
You can now abort long running operations in AKS via the CLI.
Generally Available: Kubernetes 1.26 support in AKS
Benefit from Kubernetes 1.26 features in production.
Public preview: AKS service mesh addon for Istio
Installing and using Istio on your AKS clusters is now easier.
Generally Available: Long term support version in AKS
You now have the option to enable long term support for a specific Kubernetes version.
Public preview: Fail Fast Upgrade on API Breaking change detection
Use this feature to reduce time you have to spend on post upgrade workload troubleshooting
Generally Available: Azure CNI Overlay for Linux
Simplify your AKS cluster management, routing configurations, and efficiently scale your clusters.
OpenCost for AKS cost visibility
Get greater visibility into current and historic Kubernetes spend and resource allocation..
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