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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| 7/24/2025 |
Kubernetes network solutions are challenging to plan due to rapidly evolving business needs. AKS users often face difficulties balancing simplicity, security, and scalability, while environmental...
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| 7/21/2025 |
When you deploy AKS, you deploy the control plan, which is managed by Microsoft, and one or more node pools, which contain the worker nodes used to run your Kubernetes workloads. These node pools...
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| 7/17/2025 |
Availability
Sets and the Basic load balancer are being deprecated on September 30 2025. AKS now supports, in public preview, a simple Azure CLI
command that will automatically migrate your AKS...
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| 7/17/2025 |
Virtual Machines node pools support in AKS is now generally
available. With Virtual Machines node pools, Azure Kubernetes Services directly
manages the provisioning and bootstrapping of every...
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| 7/17/2025 |
The max blocked nodes allowed feature for AKS lets you
specify how many nodes that fail to drain (blocked nodes) can be tolerated
during upgrades or similar operations. This feature only works if...
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| 7/17/2025 |
Extension Manager, the core component responsible for
managing the lifecycle of AKS
cluster extensions, has been moved from customer worker nodes to the AKS
control plane. This transition...
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| 7/17/2025 |
Managing dynamic workloads in Kubernetes
can often lead to overprovisioning, idle resources, and additional operational
overhead from maintaining pre-configured node pools. To address this,...
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| 7/2/2025 |
PostgreSQL continues to solidify its position as a top-tier database choice among workloads running on Kubernetes.
The post Running high-performance PostgreSQL on Azure Kubernetes Service...
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| 6/19/2025 |
On August 14 2025, Azure Kubernetes Service will no
longer support the skip-gpu-driver-install node pool tag to skip automatic
driver installation on GPU node pools. Starting on August 14 2025,...
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| 6/18/2025 |
Ubuntu 24.04 is now available on
AKS in Kubernetes version 1.32 and above. Containerd 2.0 is enabled by default.
AKS now supports Ubuntu 24.04 as a separate OS SKU, meaning that you can...
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| 6/18/2025 |
Azure Linux now also supports AKS
LTS starting with Kubernetes version 1.28 and above. This means you can now
pair a stable, enterprise-grade node operating system with the extended
lifecycle...
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| 6/18/2025 |
Kubernetes versions 1.31 and 1.32 are now available in all regions as Long term Support (LTS) versions. Every Kubernetes version supported by community is now LTS compatible. Learn more.
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| 6/17/2025 |
Promoting an application or infrastructure change into production often comes with a requirement to follow a change control process. This ensures that changes to production are properly reviewed...
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| 6/3/2025 |
Optimizing JVM Configuration for Azure Deployments
Tuning the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) for cloud deployments is notoriously challenging. Over 30% of developers tend to deploy Java workloads...
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| 5/28/2025 |
Today we’re excited to release the AI Infrastructure on Azure repository—a one-stop reference for teams building large-scale AI clusters on Azure.
Authors
Davide Vanzo - Senior Technical Program...
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| 5/26/2025 |
1. Simulation Meets Deep Learning: A New Paradigm
At the heart of this confluence lies the potential to fuse numerical rigor with data flexibility. Key emerging patterns include:
a. Surrogate...
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| 5/21/2025 |
1 Access management
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) supports Microsoft Entra ID integration, which allows you to control access to your cluster resources using Azure role-based access control...
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| 5/21/2025 |
The Kubernetes community releases a new minor
version approximately every four months, with a support window for each version
for one year. In Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), this support window...
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| 5/21/2025 |
Smart VM defaults are now generally available in AKS. Smart
VM defaults automatically select the optimal default VM SKU based on available
capacity and quota. This feature ensures that...
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| 5/21/2025 |
AKS supported Kubernetes version release updates are available in AKS release tracker. Users can check current in-support Kubernetes
versions and LTS versions for a specific region and track new...
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