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RSS feedNovember 2023
GA: Application routing add-on for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
You can now enable an ingress controller with SSL termination to quickly and securely access your applications in AKS
Public preview: Artifact streaming support in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
You can now scale your AKS workloads without having to fully wait for images to be pulled into the clusters.
Public preview: Image integrity support in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
You can now ensure that only signed container images are deployed to your AKS clusters.
Preview: Azure Container Storage in AKS
You can now easily deploy and use Azure Container Storage (in preview) seamlessly via the Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) preview CLI experience.
Public Preview: Azure integration with Canonical’s Snapshot Service for safe deployment
Azure Guest Patching Service and Azure Kubernetes Service will now apply the same package update from a specific date to all regions following safe deployment principles.
October 2023
Private Preview: Regional Disaster Recovery by Azure Backup for AKS
Customers can now utilize Azure Backup for AKS to recover their containerized applications and data during a regional disaster scenario.
September 2023
GA: Azure Container Apps in Azure China cloud
You can now run microservices, API’s, and other container workloads without managing infrastructure in Azure China cloud
GA: Vertical Pod Autoscaling add-on for AKS
Use Vertical Pod Autoscaling add-on for AKS to improve cost-efficiency, and cluster utilization for your workloads
Public preview: AKS support for Kubernetes version 1.28
Take advantage of the latest features in Kubernetes version 1.28 with AKS.
GA: Node OS patching - NodeImage feature in AKS
You can have a flexible and customized strategy for node-level OS security updates.
Retirement: HTTP application routing add-on (preview) for AKS will retire 03/03/2025
Target retirement date: March 03, 2025
Transition your ingresses to Web Application routing add-on before 3/3/2025 to avoid service disruptions.
Public Preview: Azure Container Storage Updates: Expanded regions and performance options
Azure Container Storage (in preview) offers volume management built natively for containers. With the latest updates you can now deploy in 26 regions, use volume resize & cloning and choose from an expanded list of Disk SKUs.
August 2023
Retirement: Kubernetes 1.24 support in AKS
Target retirement date: August 16, 2023
Migrate to Kubernetes 1.25 or higher in AKS.
Generally Available: Kubernetes 1.27 support in AKS
Target availability: Q3 2023
You can now take advantage of Kubernetes release 1.27 enhancements in production.
Generally Available: Private Link service integration
Target availability: Q3 2023
You can now directly create a Private Link Service (PLS) for Kubernetes services via annotations in the service manifest file.
July 2023
Azure DevOps July 2023 updates
Target availability: Q3 2023
In July, we've delivered multiple improvements across Azure DevOps services. You can now dismiss dependency scanning alerts in Advanced Security that you believe to be a false positive or acceptable risk. In Azure Repos, we changed the default behavior to remove "Edit policies" permission when creating a new branch.
Public preview: Azure Application Gateway for Containers
Application Gateway for Containers is the next evolution to Application Gateway's Ingress Controller; bringing performance, scale, deployment, and feature enhancements.
Generally available: Event Grid upgrade enhancements for AKS
Target availability: Q3 2023
You can now receive and programmatically handle AKS generated upgrade events in Event Grid
Azure Managed Lustre now generally available
Reduce infrastructure setup with a managed file system optimized for HPC and AI workloads.
June 2023
Public Preview: Network Observability add-on on AKS
Enable network observability add-on on AKS clusters to gain insights into how your cluster operate and to identify potential problems before they cause outages or performance degradation.
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