Azure AKS (changelog)

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Notes

AKS Roadmap: https://aka.ms/aks/roadmap
AKS Blog: https://aka.ms/aks/blog
AKS Release Notes: https://aka.ms/aks/release-notes
AKS Community YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@theakscommunity
AKS Public Community Channel: https://twitter.com/theakscommunity Updates about the service, including new features and new Azure regions: (AKS feed in Azure Updates)[https://azure.microsoft.com/updates/?product=kubernetes-service]

Release notes

2021-09-16 · Release 2021-09-16 · 1y+

Release 2021-09-16

This release is rolling out to all regions - estimated time for completed roll out is 2021-09-23 for public cloud and 2021-09-30 for sovereign clouds.

Announcement

In order to preserve any deallocated VMs, you must to set Scale-down Mode to Deallocate. That includes VMs that have been deallocated using IaaS APIs (Virtual Machine Scale Set APIs). Setting Scale-down Mode to Delete will remove any deallocated VMs.

Release Notes

New Features
- You can now integrate Azure HPC Cache with Azure Kubernetes Service.
Preview Features
- Cloud Controller Manager is now in Public Preview in anticipation of moving Azure specific controllers out of tree.
Component Updates
- AKS Ubuntu 18.04 image updated to AKSUbuntu-1804-2021.09.19 - please refer to the link for package versions in this VHD.
- Azure Disk CSI driver has been updated to v1.7.0.
- Azure File CSI driver has been updated to v1.6.0.
Behavioral Change
- AKS Private Cluster "none" parameter now defaults to public DNS which means AKS will not create a Private DNS Zone. This changes from the previous behavior of "none" being bring your own Private DNS.