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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 Agent support
You can now use open-source standards to send your app’s data.
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.
January 2024
Generally Available: Azure Container Apps supports additional TCP ports
You can now run containers apps that accept TCP connections on multiple ports.
December 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
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.
Public preview: Policy-driven resiliency in Azure Container Apps
You can now use and customize policies that provide high value resiliency capabilities and apply them to your Container Apps.
Public preview: Dedicated GPU workload profiles
You can now run GPU-enabled workloads in Azure Container Apps.
October 2023
Azure Container Apps is now eligible for Azure savings plan for compute
You can now take advantage of Azure savings plan pricing for Azure Container Apps.
September 2023
GA: Azure Container Apps in Azure China cloud
You can now run microservices, API’s, and other container workloads without managing infrastructure in Azure China cloud
August 2023
Generally Available: Azure Container Apps support for UDR, NAT Gateway, and smaller subnets
Target availability: Q3 2023
You can now define UDRs to manage how outbound traffic is routed for your container app environment’s subnet.
Generally available: Azure Container Apps dedicated plan
Target availability: Q3 2023
You can now run your apps on dedicated workload profiles that offer more CPU and memory if needed.
Retirement: Azure Container Apps preview API versions 2022-06-01-preview and 2022-11-01-preview
Target retirement date: November 16, 2023
If you're using Azure Resource Manager API version 2022-06-01-preview or 2022-11-01-preview to manage Azure Container Apps, please update your API requests to use version 2023-04-01-preview or later.
Generally available: Azure Key Vault references for secrets in Azure Container Apps
Target availability: Q3 2023
You can now use Azure Key Vault references to access your secrets in Azure Container Apps.
Generally available: Secrets volume mounts for Azure Container Apps
Target availability: Q3 2023
You can now mount secrets as volumes in Azure Container Apps.
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