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General availability: Listener TLS certificates management in the Azure portal
You can now manage the TLS certificates associated with Listeners through Azure portal.
Generally Available: VM IP based load balancer in AKS
You can now choose IP-based backend pool membership for new or existing clusters in AKS.
Generally Available: HostPort auto assign in AKS
AKS now lets you deploy pods without manually specifying host ports.
January 2024
Public Preview: Load Balancer in Azure API Management
Target availability: Q1 2024
Customers have the ability to create a load balancer that directs traffic to multiple endpoints.
November 2023
Announcing the public preview of Azure confidential VMs with Intel TDX
Microsoft is excited to announce the public preview of DCesv5 and ECesv5-series confidential VMs. These VMs are powered by 4th Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors with Intel® Trust Domain Extensions (TDX). They enable organizations to bring confidential workloads to the cloud without code changes to applications and will be available starting December 1st.
October 2023
Default outbound access for VMs in Azure will be retired— updates and more information
Target retirement date: September 30, 2025
Default outbound access connectivity for virtual machines will be retired in September 2025 -- updates and more information
Breaking Change Notice: Virtual Machine Scale Set Default Orchestration Mode changing from Uniform to Flexible on PowerShell, Azure CLI
Starting November 2023, Virtual Machine Scale Sets created on PowerShell and Azure CLI will automatically default to Flexible orchestration mode.
September 2023
Default outbound access for VMs in Azure will be retired— transition to a new method of internet access
Target retirement date: September 30, 2025
Default outbound access connectivity for virtual machines will be retired in September 2025
General availability: Gateway Load Balancer IPv6 Support
IPv6 support for Gateway Load Balancer is now generally available in all regions, enabling bump-in-the-wire network virtual appliance (NVA) insertion for your dual-stack architectures.
August 2023
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’s cross-region Load Balancer is now generally available
Azure Load Balancer support for cross-region load balancing is now generally available. You can now load balance across Azure regions enabling a globally redundant architecture via Azure Load Balancer.
June 2023
General availability: Inbound ICMPv6 pings and traceroute are now supported on Azure Load Balancer
Ping and traceroute to both IPv4 and IPv6 frontend of a Standard Public Load Balancer like you natively would on an on-premises device without any external software needed.
General availability: Azure Load Balancer per VM limit removal
Increase resiliency, higher availability, and flexibility by utilizing more than 2 Standard Load Balancers per VM.
May 2023
General availability: Inbound ICMPv4 pings are now supported on Azure Load Balancer
Inbound ICMPv4 pings are now supported on Azure Load Balancer.
March 2023
Public preview: Listener TLS certificates management available in the Azure portal
You can now manage the TLS certificates associated with Listeners through Azure portal.
October 2022
Public preview: IPVS load balancer support in AKS
You can now use the IP Virtual Server (IPVS) load balancer with AKS, with configurable connection scheduling and TCP/UDP timeouts.
Upgrade to Standard SKU public IP addresses in Azure by 30 September 2025—Basic SKU will be retired
Target retirement date: September 30, 2025
Basic SKU public IP addresses will be retired.
September 2022
Azure Basic Load Balancer will be retired on 30 September 2025—upgrade to Standard Load Balancer
Target retirement date: September 30, 2025
Basic Load Balancer will be retired.
Public preview: API Server VNET Integration for AKS private cluster
You can now use an API Server VNet Integration to ensure network traffic between your API server and your node pools remains on the private network only.
August 2022
General availability: Azure App Service Environment v3 support for custom domain suffix
General availability: Azure App Service Environment v3 support for custom domain suffix
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