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June 2023

Jun 1

General Availability: Isovalent Cilium Enterprise through Azure Marketplace

NOW AVAILABLE

Target availability: Q2 2023

Isovalent Cilium Enterprise is now generally available through Azure Marketplace.

  • Virtual Network
  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Services
  • Microsoft Build
  • Features

May 2023

May 30

General availability: Azure CNI powered by Cilium

NOW AVAILABLE

Target availability: Q2 2023

Leverage next generation eBPF dataplane for pod networking, Kubernetes network policies and service load balancing.

  • Services
  • Microsoft Build
  • Features
  • Security
May 25

Public Preview – Support for WebSocket APIs in Azure API Management Self-hosted Gateway 

IN PREVIEW

We are announcing the native support for WebSocket APIs in the self-hosted gateway feature inside Azure API Management.

  • API Management
  • Features
May 23

General Availability: Azure Monitor managed service for Prometheus

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Monitor managed service for Prometheus is now Generally Available.

  • Azure Monitor
  • Managed Prometheus
  • Azure Managed Grafana
  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes
  • Management
  • Pricing & Offerings
  • Microsoft Build
  • Open Source
May 23

Public preview: Automated deployments in AKS now supports Draft

IN PREVIEW

Configure automated deployments to create a Dockerfile, build a container image and create Kubernetes deployment files directly from your source code.

  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Microsoft Build
  • Features
May 23

Public preview: Azure Monitor managed service for Prometheus for Azure Arc-enabled Kubernetes

IN PREVIEW

Azure Monitor managed service for Prometheus is now extending monitoring support for Kubernetes clusters hosted on Azure Arc.

  • Azure Arc
  • Azure Monitor
  • Azure Managed Grafana
  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Management
  • Microsoft Build
  • Open Source
  • Features
May 23

AKS DevX Extension Updates for Visual Studio Code

NOW AVAILABLE

Easily create and deploy GitHub Actions to automate your deployments.

  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Microsoft Build
  • Open Source
May 23

Public preview: Multi-cluster update support in Azure Kubernetes Fleet Manager

IN PREVIEW

Orchestrate upgrades to your clusters in a planned manner across multiple clusters to achieve a consistent environment across a set of clusters.

  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Microsoft Build
  • Features
May 23

Generally Available: Kubernetes marketplace

NOW AVAILABLE

Access to a vibrant ecosystem of first-party and third-party solutions for building robust enterprise solutions.

  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Microsoft Build
  • Features
May 23

Generally Available: Azure Linux support in AKS

NOW AVAILABLE

Deploy Azure Linux as the node pool host OS in the AKS cluster and build apps on top of the preferred container.

  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Linux Virtual Machines
  • Microsoft Build
  • Features
May 15

Public preview: Azure Container Storage

IN PREVIEW

Azure Container Storage is a new Azure service built natively for containers that enables customers to create and manage volumes for running production scale stateful container applications.

  • Azure Disk Storage
  • Services
  • Features

April 2023

Apr 28

Application Gateway V1 will be retired on 28 April 2026– Transition to Application Gateway V2

Target retirement date: April 28, 2026

Application Gateway V1 will be retired on 28 April 2026

  • Application Gateway
  • Retirements
  • Security
Apr 19

Public preview: Azure Container Apps available in Azure China

IN PREVIEW

You can now use Azure Container Apps in Azure China.

  • Azure Container Apps
  • Regions & Datacenters
Apr 18

Generally Available: Kubernetes 1.26 support in AKS

NOW AVAILABLE

Benefit from Kubernetes 1.26 features in production.

  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Features
Apr 18

Public preview: AKS service mesh addon for Istio

IN PREVIEW

Installing and using Istio on your AKS clusters is now easier.

  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Open Source
  • Features
Apr 18

Generally Available: Long term support version in AKS

NOW AVAILABLE

You now have the option to enable long term support for a specific Kubernetes version.

  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Features
Apr 18

Public preview: Fail Fast Upgrade on API Breaking change detection

IN PREVIEW

Use this feature to reduce time you have to spend on post upgrade workload troubleshooting

  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Features
Apr 18

OpenCost for AKS cost visibility

NOW AVAILABLE

Get greater visibility into current and historic Kubernetes spend and resource allocation..

  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Open Source
Apr 18

GA: Azure Active Directory workload identity with AKS

NOW AVAILABLE

You can now use AAD workload identity with AKS in production

  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Features
  • Security
Apr 18

Azure Service Operator stable release version 2.0 now available

NOW AVAILABLE

Create and manage over 100 Azure resources such as databases, storage accounts, VMs, and more from within Kubernetes.

  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Open Source

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