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March 2024

27 Mar

GA: Azure SQL Trigger support for Azure Functions

NOW AVAILABLE

You can now build application logic in Azure Function apps which can be driven by the data from Azure SQL database

  • Azure functions
  • Features
27 Mar

Generally Available: Free managed certificates on Azure Container Apps

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Container Apps now provides a free managed certificate for your custom domain.

  • Azure Container Apps
  • Features
  • Security
27 Mar

Public preview: Support for Key Vault Certificates in Azure Container Apps

IN PREVIEW

You can now use Azure Key Vault to store and manage your own TLS/SSL certificates for use with Azure Container Apps.

  • Azure Container Apps
  • Features
  • Security
27 Mar

Public preview: PowerShell 7.4 support for Azure Functions

IN PREVIEW

You can now develop apps using PowerShell 7.4 locally and deploy them to Azure Functions

  • Azure functions
  • Features
27 Mar

Public Preview: Azure Container Apps OpenTelemetry collector support

IN PREVIEW

You can now use open-source standards to send your app’s data.

  • Azure Container Apps
  • Features
25 Mar

General Availability: Automatic Scaling for App Service Web Apps

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure App Service is pleased to announce general availability of the "Automatic Scaling" feature.

  • App Service
  • App Service (Linux)
  • Features
25 Mar

Preview: New Features in Azure Container Storage

IN PREVIEW

Azure Container Storage is a fully managed volume orchestration service built natively for containers. New capabilities include support for Temp SSD, simplified installation via AKS CLI, and scalable storage for cost-efficient workload management.

  • Azure Container Storage
  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Features
22 Mar

Retirement: Support for .NET 7 ends on 14 May 2024—upgrade your Azure Functions resources to .NET 8

Target retirement date: May 24, 2024

Upgrade your Azure Functions resources to .NET 8 by 14 May 2024

  • Azure functions
  • Retirements
21 Mar

Private Preview: Force detach zone redundant disks during zone outage

IN DEVELOPMENT

Force detach zone redundant disks during zone outage and take advantage of ZRS ability to achieve an RPO of 0.

  • Managed Disks
  • Azure Disk Storage
  • Virtual Machines
  • Windows Virtual Machines
  • Linux Virtual Machines
  • Features
19 Mar

Operator and CRD support with Azure Managed Prometheus

IN PREVIEW

Azure Monitor managed service for Prometheus will support CRD-based configs for scrape jobs to collect metrics from workloads running in your AKS cluster. With this new update, customers can use custom resources (service monitor and pod monitor) to configure metric collection with Managed Prometheus.

  • Azure Monitor
  • Managed Prometheus
  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Features
19 Mar

Microsoft open sources Retina: A cloud-native container networking observability platform

NOW AVAILABLE

The Microsoft's Azure Container Networking team is announcing Retina, a cloud-native container networking observability platform that enables Kubernetes users, admins, and developers to visualize, observe, debug, and analyze Kubernetes’ workload traffic irrespective of Container Network Interface (CNI), operating system (OS), and cloud.

  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Network Watcher
  • Services
  • Open Source
  • Features
18 Mar

Public preview: Kubernetes AI Toolchain Operator (KAITO) add-on for AKS

IN PREVIEW

You can now choose from preset LLMs with images hosted by AKS and split inferencing across multiple lower-GPU count VMs

  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Features
18 Mar

Generally Available: Cost analysis add-on for AKS

NOW AVAILABLE

You can now better understand the infra costs associated with running applications at the namespace and cluster levels and identify opportunities to optimize resource utilization through an Azure native experience.

  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Features
18 Mar

Open-Source Fleet Workload Placement Scheduling and Override

NOW AVAILABLE

You can now schedule workloads in Fleet based on cost and availability of resource heuristics.

  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Open Source
18 Mar

Generally Available: Windows Gen 2 VM support in AKS

NOW AVAILABLE

YOu can now use Gen 2 VM SKUs for Windows nodepools in AKS.

  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Features
18 Mar

Public preview: Windows GPU support in AKS

IN PREVIEW

You can now run GPU workloads, such as machine learning, video encoding, large simulations, and gaming, on Windows nodepools in AKS.

  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Features
18 Mar

Generally Available: Kubernetes 1.29 support in AKS

NOW AVAILABLE

You can now take advantage of Kubernetes 1.29 version with AKS in production environment.

  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Features
18 Mar

Generally Available: Custom kubelet configuration for Windows in AKS

NOW AVAILABLE

You can now modify default values for kubelet parameters when using Windows nodepools in AKS.

  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Features
18 Mar

Public preview: Azure CNI static block IP allocation support in AKS

IN PREVIEW

You can now scale beyond the current 65k Pod IPs and scale up to 1 Million Pods.

  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Features
18 Mar

Public preview: Deployment safeguards in AKS

You can now use deployment safeguards to implement Kubernetes best practices and get warnings on deployment or deny the deployment of manifest files that are not following best practices.

  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Features

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