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GA: Istio-based service mesh add-on for Azure Kubernetes Service
You can deploy an officially supported Istio addon for AKS
Public preview: Disable network policy in AKS for migration
You can now temporarily disable your network policy engines to perform a migration.
Public Preview: Regional Disaster Recovery by Azure Backup for AKS
Customers can now utilize Azure Backup for AKS to recover their containerized applications and data during a regional disaster scenario.
Public preview: AKS cluster control plane metrics in managed Prometheus
You can now monitor the health, load and performance of the API server and etcd in the control plane of your AKS clusters
January 2024
Public preview: Istio add-on for AKS now supports plug-in certificate authority (CA)
You can now bring your own certificates and keys to use with Istio add-on for signing workload certificates for improved security.
Public preview: Upgrade support in Istio add-on for AKS
You can now upgrade to new Istio revisions as they are made available in the Istio add-on for AKS.
Public Preview: Azure Functions Support for Java 21 on Linux
Azure Functions now supports Java 21 in preview on dedicated, consumption, and premium plans for Linux.
Generally Available: Azure Container Apps supports additional TCP ports
You can now run containers apps that accept TCP connections on multiple ports.
Public Preview: Distributed tracing v2 for durable Functions
Distributed tracing v2 for durable Functions is in public preview. This version supports all languages and storage backends and provides detailed spans.
Visual Studio Code extension update for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
You can use VS Code extension update for AKS to interact with a new create cluster experience, abort/reconcile cluster, and more.
Public preview: Node OS API options feature for AKS
You can now get Node IP for tasks such as troubleshooting, without needing kubectl access
Public preview: Disable Secure Shell (SSH) support in AKS
You can now disable SSH for AKS to reduce the attach surface on your cluster.
Generally Available: Outbound type migration in AKS
You can now update the outbound type of existing clusters without having to rebuild the cluster
Public preview: Kube-reserved resource optimization in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
You will see AKS reserve up to 20% less memorry on nodes.
Azure Red Hat OpenShift January 2024 updates
Target availability: Q1 2024
Azure Red Hat OpenShift now offers Resource Health for clusters with integration with Azure Monitor via Signals and Alerts.
Public Preview: Azure Data Explorer connector for Apache Flink
Azure Data Explorer connector for Apache Flink (Public Preview)
December 2023
Generally Available: Multi-line Logging Feature in Azure Monitor - Container Insights
Target availability: Q4 2023
Multi-Line Logging in Azure Monitor - Container Insights is designed to simplify and streamline your Log Analysis. This feature allows you to seamlessly collect and store multiple lines of log data within a single log entry, enhancing the ease with which you can view and analyze logs from your containerized applications.
Retirement: Azure Container Apps preview API versions 2023-04-01-preview
Target retirement date: March 06, 2024
Azure Resource Manager API version 2023-04-01-preview will be retired in March 2024. Upgrade to a newer version before then.
Generally Available: AKS support for API breaking change detection
AKS now alerts you on API breaking changes on minor version change cluster upgrades.
Public preview: Node autoprovision support in AKS
AKS can now take care of VM SKU selection based on the workloads you are scheduling rather than you having to pre-allocate node pools of a certain SKU type.
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