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Service Fabric node-by-node cluster upgrades are now in development
Enable more granular upgrades than just standard five Upgrade Domain (UDs), so that individual nodes or UDs of different sizes can be chosen when performing application and cluster upgrades.
Availability Zones support for Service Fabric clusters
Achieve higher reliability and resiliency by using Availability Zones (AZ)
Support for Managed Identities (MI) for applications and services is in development
Service Fabric applications and services running in a Service Fabric cluster have then own first-class identity in Azure Active Directory so that they can securely communicate with Azure services.
Service Fabric control plane audit logging in development
Investigate suspicious requests, collect statistics, monitoring alerts and track who initiated and applied changes to the Service Fabric cluster via Azure AD accounts
Low Priority VM support is now in development
Low Priority VM Scale Sets have no SLA, so are suitable only for scenarios where workloads can handle virtual machines being removed from the cluster with short/no notice at the benefit of reduced costs.
February 2019
Azure DevOps Roadmap update for 2019 Q1
We updated the Features Timeline to provide visibility on our key investments for this quarter.
January 2019
In Development - AKS Pod Identity
AKS pod identity gives pods running in Kubernetes their own first-class identity in Azure Active Directory so they can securely communicate with Azure services.
In Development - AKS cluster auto-upgrade
Cluster auto-upgrade ensures that nodes in a cluster are running the latest version of Kubernetes.
In Development - Node auto-repair support for AKS
Node auto-repair monitors nodes in a cluster and initiates a repair process if a node fails to meet health criteria.
In Development - AKS private cluster
Limit access to the Kubernetes API server to your Azure virtual network.
In Development - Availability Zones (AZ) support for AKS
Achieve higher reliability and resiliency by using Availability Zones (AZ).
In Development - Multiple node pools for your AKS workloads
Multiple node pools enable you to have different VM size per node pool to accommodate custom resource needs
In Development - Authorized IP Ranges for Kubernetes API server
Restrict access to the Kubernetes API server to specific IP addresses or IP ranges.
In Development - AKS pod security policy
Control sensitive pod specifications by setting up policies to validate requests to pods.
In Development - AKS cluster autoscaling
Scale more efficiently and run applications without downtime.
Azure FXT Edge Filer (Avere Update)
An updated Avere FXT Edge Filer appliance is in development. This redesigned hardware will take advantage of Avere software technology to accelerate network-attached storage environments and expand access to Azure Blob. General availability is expected in May 2019.
December 2018
Log Analytics solutions and views will soon drill in to the new Logs UX
Three months ago, we announced the new Azure Monitor Logs UX. Starting in early January, solutions and views will open the new Logs UX instead, offering an improved query editor and a full schema view.
November 2018
Japanese Era Update
On May 1, 2019, a new Japanese era and associated calendar will begin. Microsoft is preparing for these changes.
Azure Stack security—drift detection
New and updated features are being developed to ensure customers can determine that their Azure Stack system has not been tampered with and can remediate if configuration has drifted.
Azure Stack infrastructure backup and cloud recovery
We're developing enhancements for Azure Stack that will simplify infrastructure backup by eliminating the need for manual operator intervention.
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