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Microsoft Azure Load Testing - additional Azure components for server-side monitoring
Azure Load Testing load testing now supports additional Azure components for server-side monitoring during a load test run.
May 2023
GA Azure API Management Self-hosted gateway authentication using Azure Active Directory
New authentication method for the Self-hosted gateway with the configuration endpoint
Generally Available: Linked backends for Azure Static Web Apps
You can now link your backend APIs to your Static Web Apps applications for seamless routing and integrated security.
Public preview: Azure Functions for cloud-native microservices
Quickly build event driven, cloud native apps, with the flexibility to run functions along with other microservices, APIs, websites, workflows or any container hosted programs.
Public preview: Secrets volume mounts for Azure Container Apps
You can now mount secrets as volumes in Azure Container Apps.
Public preview: Free managed TLS certificates for Azure Container Apps
You can now use managed certificates with Azure Container Apps
Public preview: Serverlessly run on-demand, scheduled, and event-driven jobs on Azure Container Apps
Run workloads that perform a task for a finite duration and exit, and schedule these workloads or run them in response to events.
Generally Available: Azure Linux support in AKS
Deploy Azure Linux as the node pool host OS in the AKS cluster and build apps on top of the preferred container.
Public preview: Init containers in Azure Container Apps
You can now have separate containers that run before application containers are started in a replica and can perform all of the initialization logic.
Public Preview: Cross Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) in Azure Container Apps
You can now enable CORS for your Azure Container App through the portal or CLI.
GA: Azure Pipelines task to build and deploy to Azure Container Apps
Use an Azure Pipelines task to build and deploy to Azure Container Apps.
GA: GitHub action to build and deploy to Azure Container Apps
Use a GitHub action to build and deploy to Azure Container Apps.
April 2023
Generally Available: Inbound IP restrictions for Azure Container Apps
You can now restrict inbound traffic by IP without using a custom solution.
Public preview: Session affinity for Azure Container Apps
You can now enable session affinity without writing code.
Generally Available: TCP support for Azure Container Apps
You can now expose arbitrary TCP ports from your container apps.
Public preview: Azure Key Vault references for secrets in Azure Container Apps
You can now source Container Apps secrets values from Azure Key Vault
Public preview: Azure Container Apps available in Azure China
You can now use Azure Container Apps in Azure China.
Public preview: Azure Container Apps offers new plan and pricing structure
You can now run your apps using serverless, consumption-based compute, and optionally run your apps on dedicated workload profiles that offer more CPU and memory if needed.
Public preview: Azure Container Apps supports user defined routes (UDR) and smaller subnets
You can now define UDRs to manage how outbound traffic is routed for your container app environment’s subnet
March 2023
Generally available: Mount Azure Files and ephemeral storage in Azure Container Apps
Persist data in Azure Container Apps via mounted volumes.
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