Azure updates

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

Public Preview: Azure Container Apps supports environment level mTLS encryption

Target availability: Q3 2023

You can now encrypt traffic transmitted between applications within an environment using mTLS.

• Security
• Features

Generally Available: Azure Container Apps support for UDR, NAT Gateway, and smaller subnets

Target availability: Q3 2023

You can now define UDRs to manage how outbound traffic is routed for your container app environment’s subnet.

• Azure Container Apps
• Features

Public preview: Azure Container Apps supports additional TCP ports

Target availability: Q3 2023

You can now run applications that accept TCP connections on multiple ports.

• Security
• Features

Generally available: Azure Container Apps dedicated plan

Target availability: Q3 2023

You can now run your apps on dedicated workload profiles that offer more CPU and memory if needed.

• Azure Container Apps
• Features
• Pricing & Offerings

Retirement: Azure Container Apps preview API versions 2022-06-01-preview and 2022-11-01-preview

Target retirement date: November 16, 2023

If you're using Azure Resource Manager API version 2022-06-01-preview or 2022-11-01-preview to manage Azure Container Apps, please update your API requests to use version 2023-04-01-preview or later.

• Azure Container Apps
• Retirements

Generally available: Azure Key Vault references for secrets in Azure Container Apps

Target availability: Q3 2023

You can now use Azure Key Vault references to access your secrets in Azure Container Apps.

• Azure Container Apps
• Security
• Features

Generally available: Session affinity for Azure Container Apps

Target availability: Q3 2023

Azure Container Apps now supports sticky sessions.

• Azure Container Apps
• Features

Generally available: Secrets volume mounts for Azure Container Apps

Target availability: Q3 2023

You can now mount secrets as volumes in Azure Container Apps.

• Azure Container Apps
• Features

Generally available: Init containers in Azure Container Apps

Target availability: Q3 2023

You can now use init containers with Azure Container Apps in production.

• Azure Container Apps
• Features

Generally Available: Cross Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) in Azure Container Apps

Target availability: Q3 2023

You can now setup Cross Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) from the portal or through the CLI.

• Features

General availability | Azure NetApp Files: SMB Continuous Availability (CA) shares

Azure NetApp Files SMB Continuous Availability (CA) shares is now Generally Available (GA)

• Azure NetApp Files
• Services
• Features

Microsoft Azure Load Testing - additional Azure components for server-side monitoring

Azure Load Testing load testing now supports additional Azure components for server-side monitoring during a load test run.

• Azure Load Testing
• Services
• Features

Generally Available: Linked backends for Azure Static Web Apps

You can now link your backend APIs to your Static Web Apps applications for seamless routing and integrated security.

• Static Web Apps
• Microsoft Build
• Features

Public preview: Azure Functions for cloud-native microservices

Quickly build event driven, cloud native apps, with the flexibility to run functions along with other microservices, APIs, websites, workflows or any container hosted programs.

• Azure Functions
• Azure Container Apps
• Microsoft Build
• Features

Public preview: Secrets volume mounts for Azure Container Apps

You can now mount secrets as volumes in Azure Container Apps.

• Azure Container Apps
• Microsoft Build
• Features