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Public Preview: Next-Gen Dashboards Experience in Azure Portal

Target availability: Q2 2024

We're adding a new Dashboards experience within the Azure Portal. You can use this feature in parallel to the current experience and it can be found in the Dashboard Hub and the Mobile App

• Microsoft Build
• Services
• Features

Public Preview: Set Java log levels in Azure Container Apps

Java application log levels can now be set dynamically in Azure Container Apps.

• Azure Container Apps
• Microsoft Build
• Features

Public Preview: Monitor apps with Java metrics in Azure Container Apps

Use Azure Monitor to see Java metrics in Azure Container Apps and take advantage of all the Azure Monitor features.

• Azure Container Apps
• Microsoft Build
• Features

Generally Available: Azure Functions Support for HTTP Streams in Node.js

You can now stream HTTP requests to, and responses from, your Functions Apps.

• Azure functions
• Microsoft Build
• Features

Generally Available: Azure Functions extension for Dapr

You can now use Dapr’s powerful cloud native building block API with Azure Functions.

• Azure functions
• Microsoft Build
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Public Preview: Azure Functions brings new flexibility with Azure Functions Flex Consumption

Flex consumption is a new Azure Functions hosting plan that provides fast scaling and networking features with a serverless billing model.

• Azure functions
• Microsoft Build
• Features
• Pricing & Offerings

Public preview: Get started with Azure Functions using Visual Studio Code for the Web

You can now use a fully browser based end-to-end development environment for Azure Functions, starting from the Azure Portal.

• Azure functions
• Microsoft Build
• Features

Public preview: Azure Functions extension for OpenAI

The Azure Functions extension for OpenAI enables you to build intelligent applications with OpenAI.

• Azure functions
• Azure OpenAI Service
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Public preview: SDK type bindings for Azure Blog Storage with Azure Functions in Python

SDK type bindings for Azure Blob Storage with Azure Functions in Python allow you to easily integrate event and data sources with function applications.

• Azure functions
• Microsoft Build
• Features

Generally Available: Azure Functions can now run on Azure Container Apps

You can now 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
• Microsoft Build
• Features

Generally Available: Azure Kubernetes Fleet Manager workload orchestration

You can now set taints and tolerations and rollout upgrades to only available resources.

• Azure Kubernetes Fleet Manager
• Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
• Microsoft Build
• Features

Public preview: KEDA in the Azure Portal

You can now easily create and monitor your scaled objects all within the Portal interface.

• Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
• Microsoft Build
• Features

Public preview: Kubernetes version 1.30 support in AKS

You can now benefit from the latest enhancements available in Kubernetes 1.30 when using AKS.

• Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
• Microsoft Build
• Features

Draft now supports best practices via deployment safeguards

You can now scan your manifests to ensure you are following best practices.

• Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
• Open Source
• Microsoft Build

Public preview: Azure Kubernetes Fleet Manager support for property-based scheduling and override

You can now customize cluster-specific resources and schedule workloads to clusters based on new heuristics.

• Azure Kubernetes Fleet Manager
• Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
• Microsoft Build
• Features

Public preview: Deployment safeguards mutations in enforcement mode for AKS

Deployment safeguards in AKS can now adjust your deployment resources by applying best practices.

• Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
• Microsoft Build
• Features

Generally Available: Automated deployments for AKS

Automated deployments for AKS simplifies the process of setting up the authorization of a workflow to a repository, generation of a starter application, and more.

• Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
• Microsoft Build
• Features

Public preview: AKS Automatic

AKS Automatic clusters are optimized to run most production workloads and provision compute resources based on Kubernetes manifests. The streamlined configuration follows AKS best practices and recommendations for cluster and workload setup, scalability, and security.

• Microsoft Build
• Features
• Pricing & Offerings

Generally Available: 32TB storage support in Azure Database for MySQL Flexible Server Business Critical

Target availability: Q2 2024

You can now leverage storage support up to 32TB on the Business Critical service tier.

• Azure Database for MySQL
• Microsoft Build
• Features