Azure Kubernetes Service
Deploy and scale containers on managed Kubernetes.
Overview
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) makes it simple to deploy a managed Kubernetes cluster in Azure. AKS reduces the complexity and operational overhead of managing Kubernetes by offloading much of that responsibility to Azure. As a hosted Kubernetes service, Azure handles critical tasks like health monitoring and maintenance for you. The Kubernetes masters are managed by Azure. You only manage and maintain the agent nodes. As a managed Kubernetes service, AKS is free - you only pay for the agent nodes within your clusters, not for the masters.
Key Resources
Getting Started
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Ayobami Ayodeji shows us Microsoft's architectural approach and reference implementation to prepare landing zone subscriptions for a scalable Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)...
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Public Roadmap for the Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
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Azure Kubernetes Service Public Office Hours
News
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| 4/23/2025 |
ACI provides a fast and simple way to run containers in the cloud. As a serverless solution, ACI eliminates the need to manage underlying infrastructure, automatically scaling to meet application...
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| 4/16/2025 |
We’re
excited to announce the Private Preview of Azure Backup for AKS
with support for Azure file share-based Persistent Volumes! With this
new capability, customers can now enable snapshot-based...
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| 4/7/2025 |
A few weeks ago, we announced the Public Preview Refresh release of Logic Apps hybrid deployment model that allows customers to run Logic Apps workloads on a customer managed infrastructure.
This...
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| 4/4/2025 |
In this episode, Sujit D'Mello and Cynthia Kreng are joined by special guest Mike Becker, an Azure Architect at Microsoft, to discuss how various Azure services can be combined to create a...
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| 4/4/2025 |
GitHub Copilot for Azure is an extension that simplifies managing Azure resources directly from VS Code. Integrated with GitHub Copilot Chat, you can perform tasks like creating and modifying...
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| 4/3/2025 |
JDConf 2025 is just around the corner, and whether you’re a Java developer, architect, team leader, or decision maker I hope you’ll join me as we explore how Java is evolving with the power of AI...
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| 4/2/2025 |
To help
you optimize your AKS clusters, Azure Advisor now offers AKS cost
recommendations. These advisors are designed to identify cost savings
opportunities and provide actionable insights to...
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| 4/2/2025 |
Today, you
can control an AKS cluster's egress traffic using Azure Firewall. While this
configuration is intended to isolate the cluster to protect sensitive business
or customer data, it adds an...
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| 4/2/2025 |
To address
existing SLB rule limits and private link constraints, AKS now supports
multiple standard load balancers (SLB) per cluster. This enhancement allows for
better scalability, workload...
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| 4/2/2025 |
AKS now
allows you to define both IP ranges and service tags for Service LoadBalancers,
providing more flexible traffic control than loadBalancerSourceRanges. This
eliminates the need for manual...
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| 4/2/2025 |
AKS now
supports Cilium endpoint slices, improving scalability and efficiency of
network endpoint management. By reducing API server load and optimizing service
discovery, endpoint slices enhance...
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| 4/2/2025 |
AKS now
supports Layer 7 (L7) network policies in Advanced Container Networking
Services + Cilium clusters, enabling fine-grained control over application
traffic. With L7 policies, customers can...
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| 4/2/2025 |
To improve
compatibility and flexibility for customers transitioning to ePBF-based
networking, AKS now supports the Cilium dataplane with Azure CNI Node Subnet.
This enhancement allows you to...
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| 4/2/2025 |
AKS now
supports setting a maxUnavailable option for upgrading nodepools to a newer
version of both Kubernetes and node images. With maxUnavailable, you no longer
need to use surge nodes to begin...
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| 4/2/2025 |
AKS now
offers improved load balancing for services using externalTrafficPolicy:
Cluster. This enhancement enables the standard load balancer (SLB) to probe
kube-proxy directly instead of backend...
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| 4/2/2025 |
To enable
better security auditing, performance analysis, and troubleshooting of network
flows within your AKS clusters, AKS now supports persistent network flow
logging with Advanced Container...
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| 4/2/2025 |
AKS
supports WireGuard encryption in Advanced Container Networking Services +
Cilium data plane clusters. This enables seamless node-to-node encryption for
improved security. This integration...
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| 4/2/2025 |
By
default, AKS installs NVIDIA GPU drivers when a node pool is created using a VM
size that supports NVIDIA GPUs. The ability to skip automatic driver
installation on your GPU-enabled node pools...
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| 4/2/2025 |
To provide
seamless monitoring for Java and Node deployments, AKS now offers Application
Insights integration for Java and Node microservices. This integration,
available in public preview,...
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| 4/2/2025 |
The AKS
communication manager streamlines notifications for all your AKS maintenance
tasks by using Azure Resource Notification and Azure Resource Graph frameworks.
This tool enables you to...
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