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Public preview: Azure Container Apps available in Azure China
You can now use Azure Container Apps in Azure China.
General Availability: Azure CNI Overlay
Azure CNI Overlay utilizes an overlay network to reduce IP utilization while providing better performance and scale.
March 2023
Generally available: Mount Azure Files and ephemeral storage in Azure Container Apps
Persist data in Azure Container Apps via mounted volumes.
Now available: Azure Kubernetes Service Edge Essentials
Azure Kubernetes Service Edge Essentials is a Microsoft supported lightweight Kubernetes distribution that is fine tuned to run on edge devices with constrained resources.
Public Preview: Collect Syslog from AKS nodes using Azure Monitor container insights
Customers can now collect Syslog from their AKS Clusters using Azure Monitor container insights
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.
Public Preview - Backup for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
Azure Backup is announcing public preview of Backup for AKS allowing customers to protect their applications by providing ability to backup and restore AKS clusters.
Public preview: Confidential containers on ACI
ACI now lets you run containers in a trusted execution environment (TEE)
Public preview: Pod sandboxing in AKS
AKS now allows you to isolate workloads at the kernel level.
February 2023
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.
Azure Red Hat OpenShift on Azure Government is now Generally Available
Azure Red Hat OpenShift is now generally available for Azure Government customers (federal, state, local governments, and their partners).
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).
Public preview: New UX for the AKS DevX Extension for Visual Studio Code
Easily containerize non-container applications using Draft.
November 2022
Generally available: Azure Blob Storage integration with Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL
Now you can interact with your Azure Blob Storage directly from Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL, making it a perfect staging environment for getting your data into the cloud.
October 2022
Public preview: Mariner container optimized OS
Get reliability and consistency from cloud to edge across the AKS using the Mariner container optimized OS.
Generally available: Premium SSD v2 disks available on Azure Disk CSI driver
Premium SSD v2 support is now generally available on AKS.
Public preview: Azure Monitor managed service for Prometheus
Azure Monitor's new fully managed Prometheus compatible service delivers the best of what you like about open-source ecosystem while automating complex tasks such as scaling, high-availability, and long-term data retention.
General availability: AMD-based confidential VMs for Azure Kubernetes Service
Announcing the general availability of confidential node pools on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) with AMD SEV-SNP confidential VMs.
Public preview: Azure Kubernetes Service hybrid deployment options
Azure Kubernetes Service has new hybrid deployment options.
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