This release is rolling out to all regions - ETA for conclusion 2021-03-03 for public cloud.
Announcements
- The Azure Kubernetes Service pod security policy (preview) feature will be retired on June 30th, 2021.
- Once GA AKS will default to its new GPU specialized image as the supported option for GPU-capable agent nodes.
- Starting this week (Azure China Cloud and Azure Government Cloud users will get this update in the following weeks), we will upgrade AKS clusters Calico network policy from Calico version v3.8.9 to v3.17.2 for cluster 1.20.2 and above. This upgrade will cause a breaking change to the default behavior of all-interfaces Host Endpoints. For customers that use Host Endpoints, and only these, this version brings a change. Please follow our guidance to apply the appropriate label and Global Network Policy if you want to keep the v3.8.9 default behavior of all-interfaces Host Endpoints.
- Systemd-resolved will no longer be used in AKS Ubuntu 18.04 images starting on next week's release. This resolves past issues regarding private DNS with .local entries not working with Kubernetes 1.18 and Ubuntu 18.04.
- CSI Drivers will become default for Kubernetes versions 1.21+.
Release Notes
- Component Updates
- Calico updated to v3.17.2 for Kubernetes versions 1.20+.
- NMI image updated to 1.7.4.
- AKS Ubuntu 16.04 image updated to AKSUbuntu-1604-2021.02.17.
- AKS Ubuntu 18.04 image updated to AKSUbuntu-1804-2021.02.17.