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Generally available: Azure Monitor integration with Azure Container Apps
You can now choose different destinations for your Azure Container Apps logs
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.
Generally Available: Durable Functions support of managed identity for Azure Storage
You can now use an identity-based connection to access Azure Storage, instead of embedding secrets in connection strings.
Azure Red Hat OpenShift version 4.11 now available
Take advantage of the features in OpenShift version 4.11.
Azure Red Hat OpenShift March Updates
Expanded regional availability and several new features for workload optimization, enhanced security, and performance.
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: Confidential containers on ACI
ACI now lets you run containers in a trusted execution environment (TEE)
GA: Online live resize of persistent volumes
Scale up persistent volumes without taking the application offline.
Public preview: Pod sandboxing in AKS
AKS now allows you to isolate workloads at the kernel level.
Public preview: Caching in ACR
You can now use caching in ACR to achieve faster and more reliable pull operations.
Public preview: AKS NodeOSUpgrade channel
You now have more flexible options for managing your upgrades.
February 2023
Generally Available: Azure Red Hat OpenShift in Qatar Central
Azure Red Hat OpenShift is now available in Qatar Central region.
Public preview: Azure Managed Lustre
Accelerate HPC and AI workloads with a managed parallel file system
Generally Available: Azure Functions Linux Elastic Premium plan increased maximum scale-out limits
Maximum scale-out limits for Functions Linux Premium plans have been increased in several regions.
Generally Available: Availability zones support for Azure Functions in new regions
You can now use Availability Zones with Azure Functions in Norway East, South Africa North, Switzerland North, and UAE North.
Generally Available: Durable Functions support for .NET isolated model
Durable Functions support for .NET 7.0 running in the isolated worker process is now generally available.
Public Preview: SDK type bindings
Azure Functions .NET isolated worker now supports blob triggers and input bindings.
Generally available: Azure Functions support for Python 3.10
You can now develop Python 3.10 apps locally and deploy them to all Azure Functions plans.
Public preview: Upgrade scheduler
Use the upgrade scheduler feature instead of the planned maintenance feature for more flexibility.
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