Kubernetes Service

Use Vertical Pod Autoscaling add-on for AKS to improve cost-efficiency, and cluster utilization for your workloads

You can now automate the removal of all the unused, vulnerable images from your AKS nodes.

It is now easier and faster to query your logs.

Take advantage of the latest features in Kubernetes version 1.28 with AKS.

You can have a flexible and customized strategy for node-level OS security updates.

Transition your ingresses to Web Application routing add-on before 3/3/2025 to avoid service disruptions.

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…

You can now have dedicated maintenance for weekly AKS releases, auto upgrades and Node OS patching.

Migrate to Kubernetes 1.25 or higher in AKS.

You can now take advantage of Kubernetes release 1.27 enhancements in production.

You can now directly create a Private Link Service (PLS) for Kubernetes services via annotations in the service manifest file.

You can now use your own keys to encrypt your ephemeral OS disks.

You can now get complete observability into the network health and connectivity of your AKS cluster.

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

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.

More accurate information about specific add-ons and node images

Isovalent Cilium Enterprise is now generally available through Azure Marketplace.

Leverage next generation eBPF dataplane for pod networking, Kubernetes network policies and service load balancing.

Azure Monitor managed service for Prometheus is now Generally Available.

The new Network Observability AKS add-on provides complete observability into the network health and connectivity of your AKS cluster.

Configure automated deployments to create a Dockerfile, build a container image and create Kubernetes deployment files directly from your source code.

Azure Monitor managed service for Prometheus is now extending monitoring support for Kubernetes clusters hosted on Azure Arc.

Customers can now use Azure Monitor Container insights “Cluster Optimization” workbook to optimize container limits and request, identify event anomalies and detect liveness probe failures.

Azure Monitor managed service for Prometheus delivers the best of the open-source ecosystem while automating complex tasks such as scaling, high-availability, and long-term data retention.

Easily create and deploy GitHub Actions to automate your deployments.

You can now modify the node configuration on Windows nodes, as you do with Linux.

Access to a vibrant ecosystem of first-party and third-party solutions for building robust enterprise solutions.

You can now run Windows workloads on Generation 2 VMs.

Deploy Azure Linux as the node pool host OS in the AKS cluster and build apps on top of the preferred container.

Azure Container Storage, a unique storage provisioning and management service built natively for containers, is introducing several new features 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.

You can now abort long running operations in AKS via the CLI.

Benefit from Kubernetes 1.26 features in production.

Installing and using Istio on your AKS clusters is now easier.

You now have the option to enable long term support for a specific Kubernetes version.

Use this feature to reduce time you have to spend on post upgrade workload troubleshooting

Simplify your AKS cluster management, routing configurations, and efficiently scale your clusters.

Get greater visibility into current and historic Kubernetes spend and resource allocation..

You can now use AAD workload identity with AKS in production

Create and manage over 100 Azure resources such as databases, storage accounts, VMs, and more from within Kubernetes.

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…

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

You can use this feature to stop unintended changes to AKS resources and reduce support issues.

Azure Monitor managed service for Prometheus has updated our AKS metrics add-on to support Prometheus metric collection from the Windows nodes in your AKS clusters.

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

Migrate to containers before May 1, 2023

Transition your Kubernetes workloads on Windows Server 2019 to Windows Server 2022 by March 1 2026.

Azure Kubernetes Service Edge Essentials is a Microsoft supported lightweight Kubernetes distribution that is fine tuned to run on edge devices with constrained resources.

Azure Backup is announcing public preview of Backup for AKS allowing customers to protect their applications by providing ability to backup and restore AKS clusters.

Migrate your existing in-tree disk and file volumes to CSI drivers using provided guidance.