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Generally Available: Free managed certificates on Azure Container Apps
Azure Container Apps now provides a free managed certificate for your custom domain.
Public preview: Support for Key Vault Certificates in Azure Container Apps
You can now use Azure Key Vault to store and manage your own TLS/SSL certificates for use with Azure Container Apps.
Public Preview: Azure Container Apps OpenTelemetry collector support
You can now use open-source standards to send your app’s data.
General Availability: Automatic Scaling for App Service Web Apps
Azure App Service is pleased to announce general availability of the "Automatic Scaling" feature.
Azure Maps Native SDK for Android and iOS will be retired on 31 March 2025 – transition to use Azure Maps Web SDK in a web view
Target retirement date: March 31, 2025
Azure Maps Native SDK for Android and iOS will be retired on 31 March 2025
Public Preview: JVM memory fit in Azure Container Apps
Java apps are now attuned to the container environment and primed for better performance and reliability by default.
Public Preview: Managed Java components in Azure Container Apps
You can now leverage managed Java components in Azure Container apps for service registry and externalized application properties.
Public Preview: Tomcat support in Azure Container Apps
You can now deploy a Java application using a WAR file to Azure Container Apps.
February 2024
Mount Azure Storage as a local share in App Service Linux Now supports NFS
NFS support is now available for App Service Linux code and container when mounting a Azure File share as a local share for the web app.
January 2024
Generally Available: Azure Container Apps supports additional TCP ports
You can now run containers apps that accept TCP connections on multiple ports.
Public Preview: Circuit Breaker in Azure API Management
Target availability: Q1 2024
Customers now have the capability to configure the circuit breaker property in the backend resource, providing protection for a backend service against being overwhelmed by excessive requests.
Public Preview: Load Balancer in Azure API Management
Target availability: Q1 2024
Customers have the ability to create a load balancer that directs traffic to multiple endpoints.
December 2023
Delaying Domain Front Block on Azure Front Door and CDN services
Azure Front Door and Azure CDN Standard from Microsoft (classic) are postponing the domain fronting blocking enforcement to January 22, 2024, and will add two log fields to help you check if your resources display domain fronting behavior by December 25, 2023.
Retirement: Azure Container Apps preview API versions 2023-04-01-preview
Target retirement date: March 06, 2024
Azure Resource Manager API version 2023-04-01-preview will be retired in March 2024. Upgrade to a newer version before then.
November 2023
Announcing General Availability of Microsoft Defender for APIs
Target availability: Q4 2023
The general availability of Defender for APIs, a new offering as part of Microsoft Defender for Cloud, that helps organizations prevent, detect, and respond to API threats with an integrated cloud security context.
General Availability of Azure App Configuration Kubernetes Provider
Azure App Configuration Kubernetes Provider lets you centrally configure the applications running in Kubernetes clusters. The latest version offers workload identity authentication in the provider and dynamic refresh of the configuration data.
Azure Container Storage is now available with Azure Linux container host
Azure Container Storage (in preview) offers volume management built natively for containers. With the latest update, you can deploy Azure Container Storage on Azure Linux container host.
Public preview: Vector database add-ons for Azure Container Apps
You can now get started quickly with cognitive search using Azure Container Apps and its native integration with three popular open source vector database variants.
Public preview: Azure Container Apps adds native support for CNCF Buildpacks to automatically containerize your code
You can now focus on your code and quickly take your application from source to cloud. There’s no need to understand containers or how to package application code for deployment.
Generally available: Azure Container Apps Landing Zone Accelerator
You can now provision Container Apps with workload profiles securely at an enterprise scale with a landing zone.
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