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Public Preview: Azure Monitor introduces Prometheus community recommended alerts
Target availability: Q1 2024
Enable Prometheus community recommended alerts to monitor key signals to be promptly notified on potential critical issues within your clusters.
March 2024
Operator and CRD support with Azure Managed Prometheus
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 service for Prometheus now supports TLS & mTLS based scraping
Azure Monitor managed service for Prometheus now supports TLS & mTLS based scraping for Prometheus instance served with TLS. To enable TLS and mTLS based scraping, you can configure the TLS settings in the ConfigMap.
December 2023
Generally Available: Multi-line Logging Feature in Azure Monitor - Container Insights
Target availability: Q4 2023
Multi-Line Logging in Azure Monitor - Container Insights is designed to simplify and streamline your Log Analysis. This feature allows you to seamlessly collect and store multiple lines of log data within a single log entry, enhancing the ease with which you can view and analyze logs from your containerized applications.
November 2023
General Availability - Azure Backup for AKS
Azure Backup is announcing General Availability of Azure Backup for AKS allowing customers to protect their applications by providing ability to backup and restore AKS clusters.
General Availability: Ubuntu Server to Ubuntu Pro in-place upgrade now available
Upgrade from Ubuntu Server (16.04 or higher) to Ubuntu Pro on your existing Azure Virtual Machines (VMs) without redeployment or downtime.
Public Preview: Azure integration with Canonical’s Snapshot Service for safe deployment
Azure Guest Patching Service and Azure Kubernetes Service will now apply the same package update from a specific date to all regions following safe deployment principles.
June 2023
Announcing the new Azure Container Registry libraries
We’re pleased to announce that version 1.1.0 of the Azure Container Registry (ACR) libraries for .NET, Java, JavaScript/TypeScript, and Python are now generally available.
June 2022
General availability: Azure GitOps with Flux v2
Target availability: Q2 2022
Announcing the general availability of GitOps with Flux v2 in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) and Azure Arc-enabled Kubernetes (Arc K8s).
September 2019
Azure Kubernetes Service – Retiring support for Kubernetes versions 1.11 and 1.12
Target retirement date: December 09, 2019
On Monday 9 December 2019 (2019-12-09), we’re removing support for Kubernetes versions older than the latest version (N) and two minor versions prior (N-2) because support for Kubernetes 1.15 will become available on that date. Customers running Kubernetes versions older than Kubernetes 1.13.x must upgrade by Monday 9 December 2019 to remain in support.
Upgrade all Kubernetes 1.10.x clusters to a supported version by 25 October 2019
Target availability: Q4 2019
Required action Please upgrade all Kubernetes 1.10.x clusters to a supported version (1.11, 1.12, 1.13 or 1.14) by 25 October 2019.
August 2019
Azure Government support is now available for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) in preview
The Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) service is now available for preview in US Gov Virginia.
June 2019
General availability: Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) in China (China East2 and China North2)
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) is now generally available in China, in both China East2 and China North2.
May 2019
General availability: Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) in South Africa North
Target availability: Q2 2019
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) is now generally available in South Africa North.
April 2019
General availability: Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) in North Central US and Japan West
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) is now generally available in North Central US and Japan West.
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS): Kubernetes 1.9 end-of-life notice
On 24 April 2019, AKS released Kubernetes 1.13 support in GA. As per our supported-versions policy, this means that Kubernetes 1.9 support is reaching end of life.
General availability: Azure Kubernetes Service in South Central US, Korea South and Korea Central
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) is now generally available in South Central US, Korea South and Korea Central.
March 2019
General availability: Azure Kubernetes Service in India Central
Azure Kubernetes Service is now generally available in India Central. It's the 19th Azure region to offer the service.
AKS 07/03/2019 release
The AKS 07/03/2019 release contains bug fixes and a new version of the Azure Monitor for the containers agent.
General availability: Azure Kubernetes Service in France Central
Azure Kubernetes Service is now generally available in France Central. It’s the 18th Azure region to offer the service.
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