This release is rolling out to all regions - ETA for conclusion 2021-03-24 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.
- Kubernetes version 1.17 will be deprecated in the last week of March 2021.
- Before k8s 1.20 a bug would allow exec probes to run indefinitely, ignoring any timeoutSeconds configuration value. The previous buggy behavior has been fixed, and timeouts are now enforced. Additionally, this change introduces a new default timeout of 1 second. Please audit all your existing exec probes to make sure that it is appropriate to enforce a 1 second timeout. If not, please provide an explicit timeoutSeconds value that is appropriate for each exec probe.
- CSI Drivers will become default for Kubernetes versions 1.21+.
Release Notes
- Bug Fixes
- Fixed an issue with using a managed identity created in a different subscription from the cluster while using pod identity github.
- Behavioral Changes
- Made improvements to Cluster AutoScaler for ignoring pods that are stuck in Terminating state to be considered for scale down after exhausting their grace period.
- WinDSR is enabled by default for [Kubernetes versions 1.20+]
- Component Updates
- Updated image tunnel-front to v1.9.2-v3.0.22
- AKS Windows image has been updated to 2019-datacenter-core-smalldisk-17763.1817.210310.
- AKS Ubuntu 16.04 image updated to AKSUbuntu-1604-2021.03.10.
- AKS Ubuntu 18.04 image updated to AKSUbuntu-1804-2021.03.10.