Azure updates

Public preview: Azure Functions for cloud-native microservices

Quickly build event driven, cloud native apps, with the flexibility to run functions along with other microservices, APIs, websites, workflows or any container hosted programs.

• Azure Functions
• Azure Container Apps
• Microsoft Build
• Features

Public preview: Secrets volume mounts for Azure Container Apps

You can now mount secrets as volumes in Azure Container Apps.

• Azure Container Apps
• Microsoft Build
• Features

Public preview: Free managed TLS certificates for Azure Container Apps

You can now use managed certificates with Azure Container Apps

• Azure Container Apps
• Microsoft Build
• Features

Public preview: Serverlessly run on-demand, scheduled, and event-driven jobs on Azure Container Apps

Run workloads that perform a task for a finite duration and exit, and schedule these workloads or run them in response to events.

• Azure Container Apps
• Microsoft Build
• Features

Public preview: Init containers in Azure Container Apps

You can now have separate containers that run before application containers are started in a replica and can perform all of the initialization logic.

• Azure Container Apps
• Features

Public Preview: Cross Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) in Azure Container Apps

You can now enable CORS for your Azure Container App through the portal or CLI.

• Azure Container Apps
• Features

GA: Azure Pipelines task to build and deploy to Azure Container Apps

Use an Azure Pipelines task to build and deploy to Azure Container Apps.

• Azure Container Apps
• Features

GA: GitHub action to build and deploy to Azure Container Apps

Use a GitHub action to build and deploy to Azure Container Apps.

• Azure Container Apps
• Features

Public Preview: Azure Monitor OpenTelemetry Distro for ASP.NET Core, JavaScript (Node.js), Python

Onboard to Azure Monitor Application Insights using standard, cloud-native APIs and SDKs with rich data collection capabilities and a first-class Azure experience.

• ASP.NET Core SignalR
• App Service
• Azure Monitor
• Open Source
• Microsoft Build
• Features

Public Preview: App Service Minimum TLS Cipher Suite Now on Azure Portal

Disable Weak TLS Cipher Suites for Your App Service Web Apps (Preview)

• App Service
• App Service (Linux)
• Security
• Features

Preview: Automatic Scaling for App Service Web Apps

App Service has an automatic scaling capability that adjusts the number of running instances of your application based on incoming HTTP requests.

• App Service
• Features

Generally Available: Inbound IP restrictions for Azure Container Apps

You can now restrict inbound traffic by IP without using a custom solution.

• Azure Container Apps
• Features

Public preview: Session affinity for Azure Container Apps

You can now enable session affinity without writing code.

• Azure Container Apps
• Features

Generally Available: TCP support for Azure Container Apps

You can now expose arbitrary TCP ports from your container apps.

• Azure Container Apps
• Features

Generally available: Synthetic GraphQL

With Synthetic GraphQL, customers can create GraphQL APIs using their existing REST and SOAP APIs, allowing them to modernize their application API stack with minimal effort.

• API Management
• Features

Generally available: API Management Authorizations

API Management Authorizations are now generally available, providing a simple and reliable way to unbundle and abstract authorizations from web APIs.

• API Management
• Features

Public preview: Azure Key Vault references for secrets in Azure Container Apps

You can now source Container Apps secrets values from Azure Key Vault

• Azure Container Apps
• Features

App Service Environment version 1 and version 2 will be retired on 31 August 2024

Target retirement date: August 31, 2024

Migrate to App Service Environment v3 by 31 August 2024.

• App Service
• Retirements