Updates Archives
Monthly updates for May 2024
Public preview of the App Configuration Extension for AKS
Azure App Configuration extension for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) allows you to install and manage Azure App Configuration Kubernetes Provider on your AKS cluster via Azure Resource Manager (ARM).
Azure portal now offers in context observability for AKS object overviews
View your key performance metrics for your AKS resources in context with the Azure Portal
Generally Available: Azure Functions extension for Dapr
You can now use Dapr’s powerful cloud native building block API with Azure Functions.
Public preview: Kubernetes version 1.30 support in AKS
You can now benefit from the latest enhancements available in Kubernetes 1.30 when using AKS.
Generally Available: Azure Kubernetes Fleet Manager workload orchestration
You can now set taints and tolerations and rollout upgrades to only available resources.
Generally Available: KEDA in the Azure Portal
You can now easily create and monitor your scaled objects all within the Portal interface.
Public preview: Azure Kubernetes Fleet Manager support for property-based scheduling and override
You can now customize cluster-specific resources and schedule workloads to clusters based on new heuristics.
Draft now supports best practices via deployment safeguards
You can now scan your manifests to ensure you are following best practices.
Public preview: AKS Automatic
AKS Automatic clusters are optimized to run most production workloads and provision compute resources based on Kubernetes manifests. The streamlined configuration follows AKS best practices and recommendations for cluster and workload setup, scalability, and security.
Generally Available: Automated deployments for AKS
Automated deployments for AKS simplifies the process of setting up the authorization of a workflow to a repository, generation of a starter application, and more.
Public preview: Deployment safeguards mutations in enforcement mode for AKS
Deployment safeguards in AKS can now adjust your deployment resources by applying best practices.
Public preview: Azure Application Gateway v2 Basic SKU
Designed for customers, especially developers or small enterprises who are looking for a cost-effective Application Load Balancer solution and don’t require high scalability and the advanced features.
New version of AKS extension in Visual Studio Code now available
You can now take advantage of new enhancements available in version 1.4.3
Public preview: Initialization taints in AKS
You can now use node initialization taints in AKS e.g. in scenarios where you may need extra time to setup your nodes.
GA: Support for disabling Windows outboundNAT in AKS
You can now manually disable Windows outboundNAT when creating new Windows node pools in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).
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