Updates Archives
Monthly updates for March 2024
Generally Available: Windows Gen 2 VM support in AKS
YOu can now use Gen 2 VM SKUs for Windows nodepools in AKS.
Public preview: Windows GPU support in AKS
You can now run GPU workloads, such as machine learning, video encoding, large simulations, and gaming, on Windows nodepools in AKS.
Generally Available: Kubernetes 1.29 support in AKS
You can now take advantage of Kubernetes 1.29 version with AKS in production environment.
Generally Available: Custom kubelet configuration for Windows in AKS
You can now modify default values for kubelet parameters when using Windows nodepools in AKS.
Public preview: Azure CNI static block IP allocation support in AKS
You can now scale beyond the current 65k Pod IPs and scale up to 1 Million Pods.
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.
Generally Available: Azure CNI overlay dual stack Support in AKS (Linux only)
You can now deploy AKS clusters in dual stack mode which now enables resource connection through IPv4 or IPv6.
Generally Available: VM IP based load balancer in AKS
You can now choose IP-based backend pool membership for new or existing clusters in AKS.
Generally Available: Host Network Security Group (NSG) control in AKS
You can now directly configure allowed ports in your nodepool settings.
Generally Available: HostPort auto assign in AKS
AKS now lets you deploy pods without manually specifying host ports.
Generally Available: Instance level Public IP tags in AKS
You can now utilize Azure routing preference for your cluster, public node IPs in AKS
Public preview: Trusted launch support in AKS
Administrators can now deploy AKS nodes with verified and signed bootloaders, OS kernels, and drivers.
Generally Available: Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) support for 5K Node limit by default for standard tier clusters
You can now scale your AKS cluster to larger than 1000 nodes without having to request any special limit increases or whitelisting.
Public preview: Azure Modeling and Simulation Workbench
Azure Modeling and Simulation Workbench is a new service that provides a fully managed work environment for engineering development, accelerating project startup, and enabling secure collaboration between development teams.
Azure Monitor managed service for Prometheus is available in 13 additional Azure regions
Azure Managed Prometheus was announced GA in May 2023 and was available in 26 regions, with this new update Azure Managed Prometheus will be available in 13 additional regions.
You can now opt in automatically renew your reservation at time of purchase.
You can now opt in automatically renew your reservation at time of purchase, which provides an easy way to continue getting reservation discounts.
Azure Classic Administrator roles are retiring on 31 August 2024
Target retirement date: August 31, 2024
On 31 August 2024, Azure classic administrator roles will be retired. Transition from Azure Classic Administrator roles to RBAC roles
Visual Studio App Center retirement
Target retirement date: March 31, 2025
Visual Studio App Center is scheduled for retirement on March 31, 2025.
Retirement: Support for Application Gateway Web Application Firewall v2 Configuration is ending
Target retirement date: March 15, 2027
On 15 March 2027, the Application Gateway WAF v2 Configuration will be retired. To continue using this service, switch to the Application Gateway WAF v2 Policy before the retirement date.
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.
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