Take advantage of the latest features in Dapr v1.9.0 with Dapr extension for AKS and Arc-enabled Kubernetes.
Generally available: CSI Extensible API for AKS
The CSI Extensible API is now generally available in AKS.
Public preview: ASO makes it easy to manage database and connection
Azure Service Operator (ASO) now has an integration with Workload Identity.
Public preview: AKS image cleaner
You can now more easily remove unused and vulnerable images stored on AKS nodes.
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.
Public preview: Vertical Pod Autoscaler
Vertical Pod Autoscaler can help you reduce operational overhead, increase savings and improve stability of your cluster.
Generally available: Premium SSD v2 disks available on Azure Disk CSI driver
Premium SSD v2 support is now generally available on AKS.
Generally available: Azure Storage — Attribute-based access control for standard storage accounts
ABAC for Azure Storage Blobs, ADLS Gen2, and queues is now generally available and can be used for access control by defining conditions on role-assignments based on resource and request attributes.
Generally available: AKS support for Ubuntu 22.04
AKS will start using Ubuntu 22 instead of Ubuntu 18 as the Ubuntu version for node pools.
Generally available: MERGE command for Azure Synapse Analytics
Runs insert, update, or delete operations on a target table from the results of a join with a source table.