Updates Archives
Monthly updates for March 2024
Retirement notice: Windows Server 2022 will retire with k8s 1.34 in March 2027
Target retirement date: March 15, 2027
Windows Server 2022 will be retired on 15 March 2027
Retirement: Support for .NET 6 ends on 12 November 2024—upgrade your Azure Functions apps to .NET 8
Target retirement date: November 12, 2024
Upgrade your Azure Functions apps to .NET 8
Retirement: Support for the in-process model for .NET apps in Azure Functions ends 10 November 2026.
Target retirement date: November 10, 2026
Migrate your .NET apps in Azure Functions to the isolated worker model
GA: Azure SQL Trigger support for Azure Functions
You can now build application logic in Azure Function apps which can be driven by the data from Azure SQL database
Generally Available: Free managed certificates on Azure Container Apps
Azure Container Apps now provides a free managed certificate for your custom domain.
Public preview: Support for Key Vault Certificates in Azure Container Apps
You can now use Azure Key Vault to store and manage your own TLS/SSL certificates for use with Azure Container Apps.
Public preview: PowerShell 7.4 support for Azure Functions
You can now develop apps using PowerShell 7.4 locally and deploy them to Azure Functions
Public Preview: Azure Container Apps OpenTelemetry Agent support
You can now use open-source standards to send your app’s data.
Preview: New Features in Azure Container Storage
Azure Container Storage is a fully managed volume orchestration service built natively for containers. New capabilities include support for Temp SSD, simplified installation via AKS CLI, and scalable storage for cost-efficient workload management.
Retirement: Support for .NET 7 ends on 14 May 2024—upgrade your Azure Functions resources to .NET 8
Target retirement date: May 24, 2024
Upgrade your Azure Functions resources to .NET 8 by 14 May 2024
Operator and CRD support with Azure Managed Prometheus
Azure Monitor managed service for Prometheus will support CRD-based configs for scrape jobs to collect metrics from workloads running in your AKS cluster. With this new update, customers can use custom resources (service monitor and pod monitor) to configure metric collection with Managed Prometheus.
Microsoft open sources Retina: A cloud-native container networking observability platform
The Microsoft's Azure Container Networking team is announcing Retina, a cloud-native container networking observability platform that enables Kubernetes users, admins, and developers to visualize, observe, debug, and analyze Kubernetes’ workload traffic irrespective of Container Network Interface (CNI), operating system (OS), and cloud.
Public preview: Kubernetes AI Toolchain Operator (KAITO) add-on for AKS
You can now choose from preset LLMs with images hosted by AKS and split inferencing across multiple lower-GPU count VMs
Generally Available: Cost analysis add-on for AKS
You can now better understand the infra costs associated with running applications at the namespace and cluster levels and identify opportunities to optimize resource utilization through an Azure native experience.
Open-Source Fleet Workload Placement Scheduling and Override
You can now schedule workloads in Fleet based on cost and availability of resource heuristics.
Generally Available: Windows Gen 2 VM support in AKS
YOu can now use Gen 2 VM SKUs for Windows nodepools in AKS.
Public preview: Windows GPU support in AKS
You can now run GPU workloads, such as machine learning, video encoding, large simulations, and gaming, on Windows nodepools in AKS.
Generally Available: Kubernetes 1.29 support in AKS
You can now take advantage of Kubernetes 1.29 version with AKS in production environment.
Generally Available: Custom kubelet configuration for Windows in AKS
You can now modify default values for kubelet parameters when using Windows nodepools in AKS.
Public preview: Azure CNI static block IP allocation support in AKS
You can now scale beyond the current 65k Pod IPs and scale up to 1 Million Pods.
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