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March 2024

Mar 18

Generally Available: Custom kubelet configuration for Windows in AKS

NOW AVAILABLE

You can now modify default values for kubelet parameters when using Windows nodepools in AKS.

  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Features
Mar 18

Public preview: Azure CNI static block IP allocation support in AKS

IN PREVIEW

You can now scale beyond the current 65k Pod IPs and scale up to 1 Million Pods.

  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Features
Mar 18

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.

  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Features
Mar 18

Generally Available: Azure CNI overlay dual stack Support in AKS (Linux only)

NOW AVAILABLE

You can now deploy AKS clusters in dual stack mode which now enables resource connection through IPv4 or IPv6.

  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Features
Mar 18

Generally Available: VM IP based load balancer in AKS

NOW AVAILABLE

You can now choose IP-based backend pool membership for new or existing clusters in AKS.

  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Features
Mar 18

Generally Available: Host Network Security Group (NSG) control in AKS

NOW AVAILABLE

You can now directly configure allowed ports in your nodepool settings.

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

Generally Available: HostPort auto assign in AKS

NOW AVAILABLE

AKS now lets you deploy pods without manually specifying host ports.

  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Features
Mar 18

Generally Available: Instance level Public IP tags in AKS

IN PREVIEW

You can now utilize Azure routing preference for your cluster, public node IPs in AKS

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

Public preview: Trusted launch support in AKS

IN PREVIEW

Administrators can now deploy AKS nodes with verified and signed bootloaders, OS kernels, and drivers.

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

Generally Available: Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) support for 5K Node limit by default for standard tier clusters

NOW AVAILABLE

You can now scale your AKS cluster to larger than 1000 nodes without having to request any special limit increases or whitelisting.

  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Features
Mar 18

Public preview: Azure Modeling and Simulation Workbench

IN PREVIEW

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.

  • Virtual Machines
  • Premium Blob Storage
  • Azure Modeling and Simulation Workbench
  • Azure NetApp Files
  • Services
  • Pricing & Offerings
Mar 18

Azure Monitor managed service for Prometheus is available in 13 additional Azure regions

NOW AVAILABLE

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.

  • Managed Prometheus
  • Azure Monitor
  • Regions & Datacenters
Mar 18

You can now opt in automatically renew your reservation at time of purchase.

NOW AVAILABLE

You can now opt in automatically renew your reservation at time of purchase, which provides an easy way to continue getting reservation discounts.

  • Features
Mar 15

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

  • Services
  • Retirements
Mar 15

Visual Studio App Center retirement

NOW AVAILABLE

Target retirement date: March 31, 2025

Visual Studio App Center is scheduled for retirement on March 31, 2025.

  • App Center
  • Retirements
Mar 15

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.

  • Web Application Firewall
  • Application Gateway
  • Retirements
  • Security
Mar 14

Azure Monitor managed service for Prometheus now supports TLS & mTLS based scraping

NOW AVAILABLE

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.

  • Managed Prometheus
  • Azure Monitor
  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Features
Mar 13

Azure IoT Edge supports Ubuntu Core Snaps

NOW AVAILABLE

We are expanding the Azure IoT Edge supported platforms to include Ubuntu Core Snaps on IoT Edge as a Tier 1 supported operating system.

  • Azure IoT Edge
  • Operating System
  • Features
Mar 13

Now available: Free data transfer out to internet when leaving Azure

NOW AVAILABLE

Learn how to qualify for free egress when moving your data out of Azure.

  • Bandwidth
  • Regions & Datacenters
  • Compliance
  • Pricing & Offerings
  • Features
Mar 13

Public Preview: JVM memory fit in Azure Container Apps

IN PREVIEW

Java apps are now attuned to the container environment and primed for better performance and reliability by default.

  • Azure Container Apps
  • Features

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