This release is rolling out to all regions - ETA for conclusion 2021-02-03 for public cloud.
Announcements
- The Azure Kubernetes Service pod security policy (preview) feature will be retired on May 31st, 2021.
- Once GA AKS will default to its new GPU specialized image as the supported option for GPU-capable agent nodes.
- As previously announced, with the Holiday Season ending AKS will deprecate Kubernetes v1.16, completing the extension given after the GA of v1.19 for the holiday season and returning to the regular 3 supported versions window. After the week of January 31st, 2021 you will no longer be able to create v1.16.x based clusters or node pools.
Release Notes
- Features
- AKS now supports NCasT4_v3 SKUs.
- New Kubernetes patch versions available, v1.17.16, 1.18.14, v1.19.6.
- AKS Managed AAD now supports Azure AD Conditional Access. See more: https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/aks/managed-aad#use-conditional-access-with-azure-ad-and-aks
- Preview Features
- AKS now supports WinDSR in AKS Windows nodes in preview by registering the
Microsoft.ContainerService/EnableAKSWindowsDSRfeature flag. - New options for Custom node Configuration:
ContainerLogMaxSizeMB,ContainerLogMaxFiles,PodMaxPids. - AKS now supports Auto-Upgrade channels. https://aka.ms/aks/autoupgrade
- AKS now supports WinDSR in AKS Windows nodes in preview by registering the
- Bug Fixes
- When clusters that are using bring your own subnet and route table with kubenet are deleted, they will now clean up any routes set by Kubernetes/AKS.
- Added new IP availability validation for cluster upgrade of kubenet clusters.
- Fixed bug where
Standard_DC2s_v2,Standard_DC4s_v2,Standard_DC8_v2were incorrectly listed as supporting Accelerated Networking resulting in creation failures.
- Behavioral Change
- The Reset Service Principal operation will now perform a node image upgrade in-order to update the configuration of each agent node.
- Component Updates
- AKS Windows image has been updated to 2019-datacenter-core-smalldisk-17763.1697.210113.
- AKS Ubuntu 16.04 image updated to AKSUbuntu-1604-2021.01.13.
- AKS Ubuntu 18.04 image updated to AKSUbuntu-1804-2021.01.13.
- Virtual Node updated to Virtual Kubelet 1.3.2.