Azure updates

Public preview: Support for Key Vault Certificates in Azure Container Apps

You can now use Azure Key Vault to store and manage your own TLS/SSL certificates for use with Azure Container Apps.

• Azure Container Apps
• Security
• Features

Public Preview: Azure Container Apps OpenTelemetry Agent support

You can now use open-source standards to send your app’s data.

• Azure Container Apps
• Features

General Availability: Automatic Scaling for App Service Web Apps

Azure App Service is pleased to announce general availability of the "Automatic Scaling" feature.

• App Service
• App Service (Linux)
• Features

Public Preview: Managed Java components in Azure Container Apps

You can now leverage managed Java components in Azure Container apps for service registry and externalized application properties.

• Azure Container Apps
• Features

Public Preview: JVM memory fit in Azure Container Apps

Java apps are now attuned to the container environment and primed for better performance and reliability by default.

• Azure Container Apps
• Features

Public Preview: Tomcat support in Azure Container Apps

You can now deploy a Java application using a WAR file to Azure Container Apps.

• Azure Container Apps
• Features

Private Preview: Support for Azure VMs using Premium SSD v2 in Azure Site Recovery

Target availability: Q1 2024

Private preview for the support for Azure VMs using Premium SSD v2 in Azure Site Recovery.

• Azure Site Recovery
• Compliance
• Management

Public preview: Vector database add-ons for Azure Container Apps

You can now get started quickly with cognitive search using Azure Container Apps and its native integration with three popular open source vector database variants.

• Azure Container Apps
• Microsoft Ignite
• Features

Public preview: Azure Container Apps adds native support for CNCF Buildpacks to automatically containerize your code

You can now focus on your code and quickly take your application from source to cloud. There’s no need to understand containers or how to package application code for deployment.

• Azure Container Apps
• Microsoft Ignite
• Features

Generally available: Azure Container Apps Landing Zone Accelerator

You can now provision Container Apps with workload profiles securely at an enterprise scale with a landing zone.

• Azure Container Apps
• Microsoft Ignite
• Features

Public preview: Policy-driven resiliency in Azure Container Apps

You can now use and customize policies that provide high value resiliency capabilities and apply them to your Container Apps.

• Azure Container Apps
• Microsoft Ignite
• Features

Public preview: Dedicated GPU workload profiles

You can now run GPU-enabled workloads in Azure Container Apps.

• Azure Container Apps
• Microsoft Ignite
• Features

General availability: Use Azure Key Vault to securely store and retrieve access key when mounting Azure Storage as a local share in App Service

You can now use Azure Key Vault to securely store and retrieve Azure Storage account access key when mounting it as a local share in App Service. Azure Key Vault has the benefits of storing application secrets centrally and securely with the ability to monitor, administer, and integrate with other Azure services like Azure App Service. This feature is available for App Service Linux code and container, Windows containers and Windows code. Please refer to https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/app-service/configure-connect-to-azure-storage?tabs=key-vault%2Ccli&pivots=container-linux for more details.

• App Service
• Features