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Public preview: AKS image cleaner
You can now more easily remove unused and vulnerable images stored on AKS nodes.
Generally available: Premium SSD v2 disks available on Azure Disk CSI driver
Premium SSD v2 support is now generally available on AKS.
Public preview: Vertical Pod Autoscaler
Vertical Pod Autoscaler can help you reduce operational overhead, increase savings and improve stability of your cluster.
Generally available: AKS support for Ubuntu 22.04
AKS will start using Ubuntu 22 instead of Ubuntu 18 as the Ubuntu version for node pools.
General availability: AMD-based confidential VMs for Azure Kubernetes Service
Announcing the general availability of confidential node pools on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) with AMD SEV-SNP confidential VMs.
Generally available: ARM64 support in AKS
Benefit from ARM64's better price, compute performance, and lower power utilization in AKS node pools.
Public preview: Kubernetes apps on Azure Marketplace
Benefit from independent software vendor (ISV) created Kubernetes solutions in the Azure Marketplace that offer simple, click through deployments.
Public preview: Azure Active Directory workload identity support in AKS
Workload identity provides a simpler approach for managing identities and overcomes limitations of Azure Active Directory pod-managed identity.
Generally available: Windows server 2022 host support in AKS
You can now benefit from the latest Windows Server 2022 features in AKS.
Generally available: 5,000 node scale in AKS
Generally available: 5,000 node scale in AKS
Generally available: Event Grid integration with AKS
You can now get notification via Event Grid when a new Kubernetes version is available on AKS.
Public preview: Azure Kubernetes Service hybrid deployment options
Azure Kubernetes Service has new hybrid deployment options.
Generally available: Azure Hybrid Benefit for AKS and Azure Stack HCI
We are expanding Azure Hybrid Benefit for Windows Server Software Assurance (SA) customers to easily modernize with Azure, wherever they are.
September 2022
The Deployment Centre setting for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) will be retired on 31 March 2023 – Use Automated Deployments to create pipelines
Target retirement date: March 31, 2023
Retirement notice: The Deployment Centre setting for Azure Kubernetes Service will be retired on 31 March 2023.
Generally available: Multi-instance GPU support in AKS
You can now run your AKS production workloads using the A100 GPU SKU.
Public preview: Azure Network Policy Manager for Windows server 2022 in AKS
You can now add Azure network policies to Windows 2022 server in AKS.
Public preview: Operation abort
Stop an ongoing cluster or agentpool operation in emergency situations.
Public preview: Soft delete in Azure Container Registry
You can now restore deleted artifacts from your Azure Container Registry.
August 2022
Public preview: AKS DevX extension for Visual Studio Code
Easily create Dockerfiles, deployment files, and GitHub Actions through Visual Studio Code using the AKS DevX extension.
Generally available: Kubernetes 1.24 support
Take advantage of the latest Kubernetes 1.24 features with AKS.
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