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May 2024

May 8

Public Preview: NFS Azure Files volume mount support in Azure Container Apps

IN PREVIEW

You can now mount NFS file shares in Azure Container Apps.

  • Azure Container Apps
  • Features
May 8

General Availability: Azure Cosmos DB Data Explorer keyboard shortcuts

NOW AVAILABLE

Target availability: Q2 2024

Work Smarter: Enhance Productivity with Azure Cosmos DB Data Explorer shortcut keys.

  • Azure Cosmos DB
  • Features

April 2024

Apr 30

Public Preview: Azure HDInsight on AKS is now available for preview in 7 new regions

IN PREVIEW

Target availability: Q2 2024

Azure HDInsight on AKS is now available for preview in seven new regions - East US 2 EUAP, West US, Japan East, Australia East, Canada Central, North Europe, Brazil South. Azure HDInsight on AKS is a modern, reliable, secure, and fully managed Platform as a Service (PaaS) that runs on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). HDInsight on AKS allows you to deploy popular Open-Source Analytics workloads like Apache Spark™, Apache Flink®️, and Trino without the overhead of managing and monitoring containers. For more information about Azure HDInsight on AKS, see the documentation.

  • HDInsight on AKS
  • Regions & Datacenters
  • Open Source
  • Features
Apr 29

Infrastructure and quality enhancements for Azure Container Registry

NOW AVAILABLE

ACR now supports expanded registry capacity of up to 40TiB and optimized geo-replication performance.

  • Azure Container Registry
  • Features
Apr 25

Public preview: Extensibility model in Azure Deployment Environments

IN PREVIEW

Azure Deployment Environments is adding a new extensibility model that empowers customers to customize deployment workflows using Bicep, Terraform, Pulumi, or any other infrastructure-as-code (IaC) framework of their choice.

  • Azure Deployment Environments
  • Features
Apr 2

Public Preview: Azure Monitor introduces Prometheus community recommended alerts

IN PREVIEW

Target availability: Q1 2024

Enable Prometheus community recommended alerts to monitor key signals to be promptly notified on potential critical issues within your clusters.

  • Azure Monitor
  • Managed Prometheus
  • Alerts (Classic)
  • Features

March 2024

Mar 29

Retirement notice: Windows Server 2022 will retire with k8s 1.34 in March 2027

Target retirement date: March 15, 2027

Windows Server 2022 will be retired on 15 March 2027

  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Retirements
Mar 29

Support for Ubuntu 20.04 LTS for Batch pools will be retired on 23 April 2025

Target retirement date: April 24, 2025

End of life announcement for Ubuntu 20.04 LTS support for Azure Batch pools on 23 April 2025

  • Batch
  • Retirements
Mar 27

Generally Available: Free managed certificates on Azure Container Apps

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Container Apps now provides a free managed certificate for your custom domain.

  • Azure Container Apps
  • Security
  • Features
Mar 27

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

IN PREVIEW

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
Mar 27

Public Preview: Azure Container Apps OpenTelemetry Agent support

IN PREVIEW

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

  • Azure Container Apps
  • Features
Mar 27

Public preview: Change partition key of a container in Azure Cosmos DB (NoSQL API)

IN PREVIEW

Target availability: Q1 2024

The ability to change the partition key of a container in Azure Cosmos is now available in preview for NoSQL API.

  • Azure Cosmos DB
  • Features
Mar 25

General Availability: Automatic Scaling for App Service Web Apps

NOW AVAILABLE

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

  • App Service
  • App Service (Linux)
  • Features
Mar 25

Preview: New Features in Azure Container Storage

IN PREVIEW

Azure Container Storage is a fully managed volume orchestration service built natively for containers. New capabilities include support for Temp SSD, simplified installation via AKS CLI, and scalable storage for cost-efficient workload management.

  • Azure Container Storage
  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Features
Mar 19

Microsoft open sources Retina: A cloud-native container networking observability platform

NOW AVAILABLE

The Microsoft's Azure Container Networking team is announcing Retina, a cloud-native container networking observability platform that enables Kubernetes users, admins, and developers to visualize, observe, debug, and analyze Kubernetes’ workload traffic irrespective of Container Network Interface (CNI), operating system (OS), and cloud.

  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Network Watcher
  • Open Source
  • Services
  • Features
Mar 18

Public preview: Azure CNI static block IP allocation support in AKS

IN PREVIEW

You can now scale beyond the current 65k Pod IPs and scale up to 1 Million Pods.

  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Features
Mar 14

Azure Monitor managed service for Prometheus now supports TLS & mTLS based scraping

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Monitor managed service for Prometheus now supports TLS & mTLS based scraping for Prometheus instance served with TLS. To enable TLS and mTLS based scraping, you can configure the TLS settings in the ConfigMap.

  • Managed Prometheus
  • Azure Monitor
  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Features
Mar 13

Public Preview: JVM memory fit in Azure Container Apps

IN PREVIEW

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

  • Azure Container Apps
  • Features
Mar 13

Public Preview: Managed Java components in Azure Container Apps

IN PREVIEW

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

  • Azure Container Apps
  • Features
Mar 13

Public Preview: Tomcat support in Azure Container Apps

IN PREVIEW

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

  • Azure Container Apps
  • Features

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