Updates Archives
Monthly updates for November 2023
General Availability - Azure Backup for AKS
Azure Backup is announcing General Availability of Azure Backup for AKS allowing customers to protect their applications by providing ability to backup and restore AKS clusters.
General Availability of Azure App Configuration Kubernetes Provider
Azure App Configuration Kubernetes Provider lets you centrally configure the applications running in Kubernetes clusters. The latest version offers workload identity authentication in the provider and dynamic refresh of the configuration data.
Generally Available: Collect Syslog from AKS nodes using Azure Monitor Container Insights
The Syslog collection feature in Azure Monitor - Container Insights is generally available.
GA: Stateful entities in Durable Functions on the isolated worker model for .NET
The stateful entities feature for Durable Functions is now available for .NET apps on the isolated worker model.
Azure Container Storage is now available with Azure Linux container host
Azure Container Storage (in preview) offers volume management built natively for containers. With the latest update, you can deploy Azure Container Storage on Azure Linux container host.
Azure Functions brings new flexibility with scale, VNet and long execution time
You can now request for access to try out Flex Consumption, a new Azure Functions hosting plan that provides fast scaling and networking features with a serverless billing model.
Public Preview: Azure IoT Operations
Azure IoT Operations is now in Public Preview. Azure IoT Operations addresses an enterprise’s fundamental needs, but also wrangles edge data to generate local insights and brings interoperability and scalability to IoT solutions.
Public preview: Cost analysis add-on for AKS
You now have increased visibility and transparency into cluster costs.
Public preview: Vector database add-ons for Azure Container Apps
You can now get started quickly with cognitive search using Azure Container Apps and its native integration with three popular open source vector database variants.
Public preview: Azure Container Apps adds native support for CNCF Buildpacks to automatically containerize your code
You can now focus on your code and quickly take your application from source to cloud. There’s no need to understand containers or how to package application code for deployment.
Generally available: Azure Container Apps Landing Zone Accelerator
You can now provision Container Apps with workload profiles securely at an enterprise scale with a landing zone.
Public preview: Policy-driven resiliency in Azure Container Apps
You can now use and customize policies that provide high value resiliency capabilities and apply them to your Container Apps.
Public preview: Dedicated GPU workload profiles
You can now run GPU-enabled workloads in Azure Container Apps.
Kubernetes AI toolchain operator
You can now more easily deploy machine learning (ML) models on AKS using the Kubernetes AI toolchain operator.
GA: Azure Kubernetes Fleet Manager
Azure Kubernetes Fleet Manager is now generally available and offers an update orchestration feature so you can create an update strategy once and reference it in multiple update runs.
Public preview: Confidential containers on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
AKS now lets you run individual pods in their own trusted execution environment (TEE)
GA: Azure Functions supports .NET 8 in the isolated worker model
Azure Functions now supports .NET 8, using the isolated worker model.
Azure Red Hat OpenShift November 2023 updates
Azure Red Hat OpenShift now offers extended support, larger cluster size, and tagging support.
Provider for running Karpenter on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
You can now use an open-source provider for running Karpenter on AKS to improve the efficiency and cost of running workloads on Kubernetes clusters.
GA: Kubernetes Event-driven Autoscaling (KEDA) Add-on for AKS
You can now use the KEDA add-on for AKS in production.
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