Azure updates

Migrate your Git Repository to automated deployments with APIOps by 15 March 2025

Target retirement date: March 15, 2025

The Git repository feature in Azure API Management will be retired 15 March 2025

• Retirements

Delaying Domain Front Block on Azure Front Door and CDN services

Azure Front Door and Azure CDN Standard from Microsoft (classic) are postponing the domain fronting blocking enforcement to January 22, 2024, and will add two log fields to help you check if your resources display domain fronting behavior by December 25, 2023.

• Azure Front Door
• Content Delivery Network
• Security
• Features

Changes to My Groups admin controls

Target retirement date: June 30, 2024

New settings will enable admins to restrict end users from viewing and editing security groups in My Groups. The existing settings that allow enabling or disabling of My Groups will be retired in June 2024.

• Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure AD)
• Security
• Retirements

Update to Azure Functions Cosmos DB extension version 4.x by 31 August 2024 for continued support

Target retirement date: August 31, 2024

Applications hosted on Azure Functions that are using Azure Cosmos DB extension version 3.x will be unsupported after 31 August 2024.

• Azure Functions
• Retirements

Switch to Azure AD authentication for application insights by 30 September 2025

Target retirement date: September 30, 2025

API keys used to stream live metrics telemetry into application insights will be retired on 30 September 2025.

• Retirements

Azure CycleCloud 8.4.0 release

Target availability: Q2 2023

We’re excited to announce the release of CycleCloud 8.4.0. Here is the list of the improvements and bug fixes: New Features • Slurm 3.0 is now supported o Support for dynamic nodes, and dynamic partitions via dynamic nodearrays, supporting both single and multiple VM sizes o New slurm versions 23.02 and 22.05.8 o Cost reporting via azslurm CLI o azslurm cli based autoscaler o Ubuntu 20 support o Removed need for topology plugin, and therefore also any submit plugin • Encryption-At-Host is now supported • Added Event Log for auditing storage credentials • Cluster usage schema now includes VM size details • New regions supported for pricing, including Poland, Sweden, and Jio India Resolved Issues • VMSS which were removed outside of CycleCloud could trigger a null-pointer exception. • Users were not able to interact with checkboxes in forms • node.json was not parsed using utf-8 encoding on Windows • Pricing for Ultra disks was not collected correctly • VMs using Ultra disks failed to be created if there was no price information • Restoring from backup sometimes picked an older version to restore from • Restoring from backup did not work if port 80/443 were in use • LSF example template was broken • In certain cases, nodes could be added to the cluster but not counted against the limits • Users were not able to change their password • CVE-2021-43980 is mitigated Here’s a link to the release notes in our public documentation: Release Notes v8.4.0 - Azure CycleCloud | Microsoft Learn UPGRADING CYCLECLOUD Please follow these links depending on the customer’s configuration:  Upgrading on Debian or Ubuntu  Upgrading on Enterprise Linux (RHEL) clones  Upgrading from the Microsoft Download center More info: Upgrade or Migrate - Azure CycleCloud | Microsoft Docs QUESTIONS? Please feel free to reach out at askcyclecloud@microsoft.com, or the AskCycleCloud Teams channel

• Open Source

We’re retiring Cluster Configuration with Flux v1 on 24 May 2025 – transition to GitOps extension for Kubernetes to move to Flux v2

Target retirement date: May 24, 2025

Migrate to GitOps Extension for Flux v2 by 24 May 2025

• Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes
• Retirements

Azure Percept DK Retirement Announcement

Target retirement date: March 30, 2023

Azure Percept DK and support from associated Azure services will be retired on March 30th, 2023.

• Retirements

Generally available: AKS support for Ubuntu 22.04

AKS will start using Ubuntu 22 instead of Ubuntu 18 as the Ubuntu version for node pools.

• Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
• Features

App Service support for Ruby is ending 12 April 2023 

Target retirement date: April 12, 2023

App Service support for Ruby workloads is ending on 12 April 2023. Migrate Ruby applications to use a custom container.

• Retirements

Retirement of Computer Vision API v3.2 previews

Target retirement date: January 30, 2023

Migrate your workloads to Computer Vision API v3.2 GA before 30 January 2023.

• Retirements

Azure VM insights guest health (preview) will be retired on 30 November 2022

Target retirement date: November 30, 2022

Transition to Azure Monitor log alerts for VM guest health by 30 November 2022.

• Retirements

Update: ND-series Azure Virtual Machines will be retired on 31 August 2023

Target retirement date: August 31, 2023

Transition to new HPC virtual machines by 31 August 2023.

• Virtual Machines
• Retirements

General availability: Azure Red Hat OpenShift support for OpenShift 4.9

Benefit from new features and enhancements in OpenShift release 4.9.

• Azure Red Hat OpenShift
• Services