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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.
November 2023
General Availability - Azure Backup for AKS
Azure Backup is announcing General Availability of Azure Backup for AKS allowing customers to protect their applications by providing ability to backup and restore AKS clusters.
General Availability of Azure App Configuration Kubernetes Provider
Azure App Configuration Kubernetes Provider lets you centrally configure the applications running in Kubernetes clusters. The latest version offers workload identity authentication in the provider and dynamic refresh of the configuration data.
Generally Available: Collect Syslog from AKS nodes using Azure Monitor Container Insights
The Syslog collection feature in Azure Monitor - Container Insights is generally available.
Public Preview: Azure IoT Operations
Azure IoT Operations is now in Public Preview. Azure IoT Operations addresses an enterprise’s fundamental needs, but also wrangles edge data to generate local insights and brings interoperability and scalability to IoT solutions.
Public preview: Cost analysis add-on for AKS
You now have increased visibility and transparency into cluster costs.
Kubernetes AI toolchain operator
You can now more easily deploy machine learning (ML) models on AKS using the Kubernetes AI toolchain operator.
GA: Azure Kubernetes Fleet Manager
Azure Kubernetes Fleet Manager is now generally available and offers an update orchestration feature so you can create an update strategy once and reference it in multiple update runs.
Public preview: Confidential containers on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
AKS now lets you run individual pods in their own trusted execution environment (TEE)
Provider for running Karpenter on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
You can now use an open-source provider for running Karpenter on AKS to improve the efficiency and cost of running workloads on Kubernetes clusters.
GA: Kubernetes Event-driven Autoscaling (KEDA) Add-on for AKS
You can now use the KEDA add-on for AKS in production.
GA: Kubernetes 1.28 support in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
You can now take advantage of Kubernetes 1.28 features in production.
GA: Application routing add-on for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
You can now enable an ingress controller with SSL termination to quickly and securely access your applications in AKS
Public preview: Dual-stack networking in Azure CNI Overlay for AKS
You can now use dual-stack networking to communicate with services requiring IPv6 communication..
Public preview: Artifact streaming support in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
You can now scale your AKS workloads without having to fully wait for images to be pulled into the clusters.
Public preview: Image integrity support in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
You can now ensure that only signed container images are deployed to your AKS clusters.
Preview: Azure Container Storage in AKS
You can now easily deploy and use Azure Container Storage (in preview) seamlessly via the Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) preview CLI experience.
Public Preview: Azure integration with Canonical’s Snapshot Service for safe deployment
Azure Guest Patching Service and Azure Kubernetes Service will now apply the same package update from a specific date to all regions following safe deployment principles.
October 2023
Public preview: Disable Secure Shell (SSH) support in AKS
You can now disable secure shell (SSH) in AKS
GA: Bring our own keys (BYOK) on Ephemeral OS Disk
You can now encrypt OS and Data disks of your AKS nodes in production with your own managed keys.
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