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July 2023

Jul 19

Generally available: Event Grid upgrade enhancements for AKS

NOW AVAILABLE

Target availability: Q3 2023

You can now receive and programmatically handle AKS generated upgrade events in Event Grid

  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Event Grid
  • Features
Jul 10

Azure Managed Lustre now generally available

NOW AVAILABLE

Reduce infrastructure setup with a managed file system optimized for HPC and AI workloads.

  • Azure Managed Lustre
  • Services
  • Pricing & Offerings

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.

  • Virtual Network
  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Security
  • Services
  • Microsoft Build
  • 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
  • Open Source
  • Management
  • Microsoft Build
  • Pricing & Offerings
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)
  • Open Source
  • Management
  • Microsoft Build
  • 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)
  • Open Source
  • Microsoft Build
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
  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • 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
  • Security
  • Retirements
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

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

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

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)
  • Security
  • Features
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
Apr 18

Public Preview: Isovalent Cilium Enterprise through Azure Marketplace

IN PREVIEW

Isovalent Cilium Enterprise is now available to Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) customers in the Microsoft Azure Marketplace marking a key milestone in delivering the expansive eBPF-powered Cilium and Isovalent Cilium Enterprise to Azure Kubernetes Service and Azure.

  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Virtual Network
  • Services
  • Pricing & Offerings
  • Features
Apr 17

General Availability: Azure CNI Overlay

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure CNI Overlay utilizes an overlay network to reduce IP utilization while providing better performance and scale.  

  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Virtual Network
  • Features

March 2023

Mar 29

Public preview: AKS support for Kubernetes 1.26 release

IN PREVIEW

You can now try out Kubernetes v1.26 features with Azure Kubernetes Service

  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Features
Mar 17

We’re retiring Cluster Configuration with Flux v1 on 24 May 2025 – transition to GitOps extension for Kubernetes to move to Flux v2

Target retirement date: May 24, 2025

Migrate to GitOps Extension for Flux v2 by 24 May 2025

  • Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes
  • Retirements

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