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RSS feedFebruary 2023
Public preview: Azure Managed Lustre
Accelerate HPC and AI workloads with a managed parallel file system
Public preview: Upgrade scheduler
Use the upgrade scheduler feature instead of the planned maintenance feature for more flexibility.
Generally Available: Azure Kubernetes Service introduces two pricing tiers: Free and Standard
Identify and use the most appropriate AKS tier for your projects.
November 2022
Generally available: Azure Blob CSI driver support in AKS
You no longer need to deal with manual installation as well as lifecycle management of the open-source Azure Blob CSI driver with AKS.
Public preview: Rotate SSH keys on existing AKS nodepools
You can now update SSH keys on existing AKS nodepools post deployment.
October 2022
Public preview: Azure CNI Powered by Cilium
Leverage next generation eBPF dataplane for pod networking, Kubernetes network policies and service load balancing.
Public preview: Mariner container optimized OS
Get reliability and consistency from cloud to edge across the AKS using the Mariner container optimized OS.
Public preview: K8s 1.25 support
You can now benefit from the latest features in Kubernetes version 1.25.
Generally available: CSI Extensible API for AKS
The CSI Extensible API is now generally available in AKS.
Dapr extension for AKS and Arc-enabled Kubernetes now support Dapr v1.9.0
Take advantage of the latest features in Dapr v1.9.0 with Dapr extension for AKS and Arc-enabled Kubernetes.
Public preview: ASO makes it easy to manage database and connection
Azure Service Operator (ASO) now has an integration with Workload Identity.
Public preview: IPVS load balancer support in AKS
You can now use the IP Virtual Server (IPVS) load balancer with AKS, with configurable connection scheduling and TCP/UDP timeouts.
Public preview: AKS image cleaner
You can now more easily remove unused and vulnerable images stored on AKS nodes.
Generally available: Premium SSD v2 disks available on Azure Disk CSI driver
Premium SSD v2 support is now generally available on AKS.
Public preview: Vertical Pod Autoscaler
Vertical Pod Autoscaler can help you reduce operational overhead, increase savings and improve stability of your cluster.
Generally available: AKS support for Ubuntu 22.04
AKS will start using Ubuntu 22 instead of Ubuntu 18 as the Ubuntu version for node pools.
General availability: AMD-based confidential VMs for Azure Kubernetes Service
Announcing the general availability of confidential node pools on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) with AMD SEV-SNP confidential VMs.
Generally available: ARM64 support in AKS
Benefit from ARM64's better price, compute performance, and lower power utilization in AKS node pools.
Public preview: Kubernetes apps on Azure Marketplace
Benefit from independent software vendor (ISV) created Kubernetes solutions in the Azure Marketplace that offer simple, click through deployments.
Public preview: Azure Active Directory workload identity support in AKS
Workload identity provides a simpler approach for managing identities and overcomes limitations of Azure Active Directory pod-managed identity.
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