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RSS feedMay 2023
Generally Available: Azure Linux support in AKS
Deploy Azure Linux as the node pool host OS in the AKS cluster and build apps on top of the preferred container.
Public preview: Init containers in Azure Container Apps
You can now have separate containers that run before application containers are started in a replica and can perform all of the initialization logic.
Public Preview: Cross Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) in Azure Container Apps
You can now enable CORS for your Azure Container App through the portal or CLI.
GA: Azure Pipelines task to build and deploy to Azure Container Apps
Use an Azure Pipelines task to build and deploy to Azure Container Apps.
GA: GitHub action to build and deploy to Azure Container Apps
Use a GitHub action to build and deploy to Azure Container Apps.
April 2023
Generally Available: Inbound IP restrictions for Azure Container Apps
You can now restrict inbound traffic by IP without using a custom solution.
Public preview: Session affinity for Azure Container Apps
You can now enable session affinity without writing code.
Generally Available: TCP support for Azure Container Apps
You can now expose arbitrary TCP ports from your container apps.
Public preview: Azure Key Vault references for secrets in Azure Container Apps
You can now source Container Apps secrets values from Azure Key Vault
Public preview: Azure Container Apps available in Azure China
You can now use Azure Container Apps in Azure China.
Public preview: Azure Container Apps offers new plan and pricing structure
You can now run your apps using serverless, consumption-based compute, and optionally run your apps on dedicated workload profiles that offer more CPU and memory if needed.
Public preview: Azure Container Apps supports user defined routes (UDR) and smaller subnets
You can now define UDRs to manage how outbound traffic is routed for your container app environment’s subnet
March 2023
Generally available: Mount Azure Files and ephemeral storage in Azure Container Apps
Persist data in Azure Container Apps via mounted volumes.
Generally available: Azure Monitor integration with Azure Container Apps
You can now choose different destinations for your Azure Container Apps logs
Public preview: Data API builder instantly creates modern REST and GraphQL endpoints for modern databases
Improve development velocity and efficiency via modern REST and GraphQL API using the new data API builder with support for multiple Azure databases.
January 2023
General availability: Mount Azure Storage as a local share in App Service Windows Code
Mounting Azure Storage File share as a network share in Windows code (non-container) in App Service is now generally available.
December 2022
Public preview: Azure Arc enabled Azure Container Apps
You can now run Azure Container Apps on your own Azure Arc-enabled Kubernetes clusters (AKS and AKS-HCI).
November 2022
Public preview: Inbound IP restrictions support in Azure Container Apps
You can now restrict inbound traffic to your Azure Container Apps by IP without using a custom solution.
Public preview: GitHub action to build and deploy to Azure Container Apps
Azure Container Apps now supports, in public preview, a new GitHub action that builds and deploys container apps from GitHub Actions workflows.
Public preview: Azure Pipelines task to build and deploy to Azure Container Apps
You can now use a new Azure Pipelines task to build and deploy container apps from Azure DevOps.
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