Updates Archives
Monthly updates for March 2023
The “managed” IoT Edge solution on Azure stack Edge will be retired on March 31, 2024. Transition your IoT Edge workloads to an IoT Edge solution running on a Linux VM on Azure Stack Edge.
Target retirement date: March 31, 2024
The “managed” IoT Edge solution on Azure Stack Edge will be retired on 31 March 2024
Public preview: AKS support for Kubernetes 1.26 release
You can now try out Kubernetes v1.26 features with Azure Kubernetes Service
AKS will stop support for Windows Server 2019 on March 1 2026
Transition your Kubernetes workloads on Windows Server 2019 to Windows Server 2022 by March 1 2026.
We’re retiring Cluster Configuration with Flux v1 on 24 May 2025 – transition to GitOps extension for Kubernetes to move to Flux v2
Target retirement date: May 24, 2025
Migrate to GitOps Extension for Flux v2 by 24 May 2025
Container insights recommended alerts (custom metrics) (preview) will be retired on 14 March 2026
Target retirement date: March 14, 2026
Transition to Prometheus recommended alert rules (preview) before 14 March 2026.
Azure Machine Learning - Generally availability updates for March 2023
New features now available in GA include the ability to visualize timeseries models, and create a Compute Instance on behalf of another user.
Now available: Azure Kubernetes Service Edge Essentials
Azure Kubernetes Service Edge Essentials is a Microsoft supported lightweight Kubernetes distribution that is fine tuned to run on edge devices with constrained resources.
Azure Red Hat OpenShift version 4.11 now available
Take advantage of the features in OpenShift version 4.11.
Public Preview: Collect Syslog from AKS nodes using Azure Monitor container insights
Customers can now collect Syslog from their AKS Clusters using Azure Monitor container insights
Public Preview - Backup for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
Azure Backup is announcing public preview of Backup for AKS allowing customers to protect their applications by providing ability to backup and restore AKS clusters.
Disclosure: In-tree disk and file drivers will no longer be supported starting in Kubernetes v1.26
Migrate your existing in-tree disk and file volumes to CSI drivers using provided guidance.
Public preview: Pod sandboxing in AKS
AKS now allows you to isolate workloads at the kernel level.
Public preview: AKS NodeOSUpgrade channel
You now have more flexible options for managing your upgrades.
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