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March 2024

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
  • Services
  • Features
  • Open Source
Mar 19

Billing for Azure Monitor stateful log search alerts

IN PREVIEW

Starting from May 1, 2024, you will be charged for stateful log alerts in Azure Monitor.

  • Services
  • Compliance
  • Features
Mar 18

Public preview: Kubernetes AI Toolchain Operator (KAITO) add-on for AKS

IN PREVIEW

You can now choose from preset LLMs with images hosted by AKS and split inferencing across multiple lower-GPU count VMs

  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Features
Mar 18

Generally Available: Cost analysis add-on for AKS

NOW AVAILABLE

You can now better understand the infra costs associated with running applications at the namespace and cluster levels and identify opportunities to optimize resource utilization through an Azure native experience.

  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Features
Mar 18

Open-Source Fleet Workload Placement Scheduling and Override

NOW AVAILABLE

You can now schedule workloads in Fleet based on cost and availability of resource heuristics.

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

Generally Available: Windows Gen 2 VM support in AKS

NOW AVAILABLE

YOu can now use Gen 2 VM SKUs for Windows nodepools in AKS.

  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Features
Mar 18

Public preview: Windows GPU support in AKS

IN PREVIEW

You can now run GPU workloads, such as machine learning, video encoding, large simulations, and gaming, on Windows nodepools in AKS.

  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Features
Mar 18

Generally Available: Kubernetes 1.29 support in AKS

NOW AVAILABLE

You can now take advantage of Kubernetes 1.29 version with AKS in production environment.

  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Features
Mar 18

Generally Available: Custom kubelet configuration for Windows in AKS

NOW AVAILABLE

You can now modify default values for kubelet parameters when using Windows nodepools in AKS.

  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • 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 18

Public preview: Deployment safeguards in AKS

You can now use deployment safeguards to implement Kubernetes best practices and get warnings on deployment or deny the deployment of manifest files that are not following best practices.

  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Features
Mar 18

Generally Available: Azure CNI overlay dual stack Support in AKS (Linux only)

NOW AVAILABLE

You can now deploy AKS clusters in dual stack mode which now enables resource connection through IPv4 or IPv6.

  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Features
Mar 18

Generally Available: VM IP based load balancer in AKS

NOW AVAILABLE

You can now choose IP-based backend pool membership for new or existing clusters in AKS.

  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Features
Mar 18

Generally Available: Host Network Security Group (NSG) control in AKS

NOW AVAILABLE

You can now directly configure allowed ports in your nodepool settings.

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

Generally Available: HostPort auto assign in AKS

NOW AVAILABLE

AKS now lets you deploy pods without manually specifying host ports.

  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Features
Mar 18

Generally Available: Instance level Public IP tags in AKS

IN PREVIEW

You can now utilize Azure routing preference for your cluster, public node IPs in AKS

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

Public preview: Trusted launch support in AKS

IN PREVIEW

Administrators can now deploy AKS nodes with verified and signed bootloaders, OS kernels, and drivers.

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

Generally Available: Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) support for 5K Node limit by default for standard tier clusters

NOW AVAILABLE

You can now scale your AKS cluster to larger than 1000 nodes without having to request any special limit increases or whitelisting.

  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Features
Mar 18

Public preview: Azure Modeling and Simulation Workbench

IN PREVIEW

Azure Modeling and Simulation Workbench is a new service that provides a fully managed work environment for engineering development, accelerating project startup, and enabling secure collaboration between development teams.

  • Virtual Machines
  • Premium Blob Storage
  • Azure Modeling and Simulation Workbench
  • Azure NetApp Files
  • Services
  • Pricing & Offerings
Mar 18

Azure Monitor managed service for Prometheus is available in 13 additional Azure regions

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Managed Prometheus was announced GA in May 2023 and was available in 26 regions, with this new update Azure Managed Prometheus will be available in 13 additional regions.

  • Managed Prometheus
  • Azure Monitor
  • Regions & Datacenters

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