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August 2023

25 Aug

Retirement: Kubernetes 1.24 support in AKS

Target retirement date: August 16, 2023

Migrate to Kubernetes 1.25 or higher in AKS.

  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Retirements
16 Aug

Generally Available: Private Link service integration

NOW AVAILABLE

Target availability: Q3 2023

You can now directly create a Private Link Service (PLS) for Kubernetes services via annotations in the service manifest file.

  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Features

July 2023

26 Jul

Azure DevOps July 2023 updates

NOW AVAILABLE

Target availability: Q3 2023

In July, we've delivered multiple improvements across Azure DevOps services. You can now dismiss dependency scanning alerts in Advanced Security that you believe to be a false positive or acceptable risk. In Azure Repos, we changed the default behavior to remove "Edit policies" permission when creating a new branch.

  • Azure DevOps
  • Features
24 Jul

Public preview: Azure Application Gateway for Containers

IN PREVIEW

Application Gateway for Containers is the next evolution to Application Gateway's Ingress Controller; bringing performance, scale, deployment, and feature enhancements.

  • Application Gateway
  • Security
  • Features
19 Jul

Generally available: Event Grid upgrade enhancements for AKS

NOW AVAILABLE

Target availability: Q3 2023

You can now receive and programmatically handle AKS generated upgrade events in Event Grid

  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Event Grid
  • Features
10 Jul

Azure Managed Lustre now generally available

NOW AVAILABLE

Reduce infrastructure setup with a managed file system optimized for HPC and AI workloads.

  • Azure Managed Lustre
  • Services
  • Pricing & Offerings

June 2023

1 Jun

General Availability: Isovalent Cilium Enterprise through Azure Marketplace

NOW AVAILABLE

Target availability: Q2 2023

Isovalent Cilium Enterprise is now generally available through Azure Marketplace.

  • Virtual Network
  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Services
  • Microsoft Build
  • Features

May 2023

30 May

General availability: Azure CNI powered by Cilium

NOW AVAILABLE

Target availability: Q2 2023

Leverage next generation eBPF dataplane for pod networking, Kubernetes network policies and service load balancing.

  • Virtual Network
  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Security
  • Services
  • Microsoft Build
  • Features
23 May

General Availability: Azure Monitor managed service for Prometheus

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Monitor managed service for Prometheus is now Generally Available.

  • Azure Monitor
  • Managed Prometheus
  • Azure Managed Grafana
  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes
  • Open Source
  • Management
  • Microsoft Build
  • Pricing & Offerings
23 May

Public preview: Automated deployments in AKS now supports Draft

IN PREVIEW

Configure automated deployments to create a Dockerfile, build a container image and create Kubernetes deployment files directly from your source code.

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

Public preview: Azure Monitor managed service for Prometheus for Azure Arc-enabled Kubernetes

IN PREVIEW

Azure Monitor managed service for Prometheus is now extending monitoring support for Kubernetes clusters hosted on Azure Arc.

  • Azure Arc
  • Azure Monitor
  • Azure Managed Grafana
  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Open Source
  • Management
  • Microsoft Build
  • Features
23 May

AKS DevX Extension Updates for Visual Studio Code

NOW AVAILABLE

Easily create and deploy GitHub Actions to automate your deployments.

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

Generally Available: Azure Linux support in AKS

NOW AVAILABLE

Deploy Azure Linux as the node pool host OS in the AKS cluster and build apps on top of the preferred container.

  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Linux Virtual Machines
  • Microsoft Build
  • Features
15 May

Public preview: Azure Container Storage

IN PREVIEW

Azure Container Storage is a new Azure service built natively for containers that enables customers to create and manage volumes for running production scale stateful container applications.

  • Azure Disk Storage
  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Services
  • Features

April 2023

28 Apr

Application Gateway V1 will be retired on 28 April 2026 – Transition to Application Gateway V2

Target retirement date: April 28, 2026

Application Gateway V1 will be retired on 28 April 2026

  • Application Gateway
  • Security
  • Retirements
19 Apr

Public preview: Azure Container Apps available in Azure China

IN PREVIEW

You can now use Azure Container Apps in Azure China.

  • Azure Container Apps
  • Regions & Datacenters
18 Apr

Public preview: AKS service mesh addon for Istio

IN PREVIEW

Installing and using Istio on your AKS clusters is now easier.

  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Open Source
  • Features
18 Apr

Public preview: Fail Fast Upgrade on API Breaking change detection

IN PREVIEW

Use this feature to reduce time you have to spend on post upgrade workload troubleshooting

  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Features
18 Apr

GA: Azure Active Directory workload identity with AKS

NOW AVAILABLE

You can now use AAD workload identity with AKS in production

  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Security
  • Features
18 Apr

Azure Service Operator stable release version 2.0 now available

NOW AVAILABLE

Create and manage over 100 Azure resources, such as databases, storage accounts, VMs and more, from within Kubernetes.

  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Open Source

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