This release is rolling out to all regions - ETA for conclusion 2020-11-19 for public cloud
Announcements
- AKS will default to containerd as the default runtime on kubernetes v1.19+ after this feature GAs. During preview we encourage to create nodepools with the new container runtime to validate workloads still work as expected. And do check the containerd differences and limitations. After GA of kubernetes v1.19, containerd will be served by default for all new clusters or cluster that upgrade to v1.19. If you are doing container builds in cluster please use the recommended docker buildx.
- After the GA of Ephemeral OS and release of the 2020-11-01 AKS API version. Clusters and nodepools will be created by default with Ephemeral OS. You can still select managed disks explicitly if you prefer that option. See more at https://aka.ms/aks/ephemeral-os.
- The Azure Kubernetes Service pod security policy (preview) feature will be retired on February 1st 2021.
- Once GA AKS will default to its new GPU specialized image as the supported option for GPU-capable agent nodes.
Release Notes
- Features
- Migration from Service Principal-based clusters to Managed Identity Managed clusters is now supported. See how here.
- Added Standard_Dxds_v4 VM SKUs.
- Added Standard_exds_v4.
- Behavioral changes
- From kubernetes clusters v1.19+
az aks browseCLI command will open the Azure Portal resource view instead of the kubernetes dashboard that no longer is supported on these clusters.
- From kubernetes clusters v1.19+
- Bug Fixes
- Component updates
- AKS Ubuntu 16.04 image updated to AKSUbuntu-1604-2020.10.28.
- AKS Ubuntu 18.04 image updated to AKSUbuntu-1804-2020.10.28.
- Azure Monitor for Containers updated to version 10272020
- Updated CNI network monitor addon to version v1.1.18.
- The new AKS API version 2020-11-11 has been published.