This release is rolling out to all regions - estimated time for completed roll out is 2021-08-05 for public cloud and 2021-08-10 for sovereign clouds.
Announcements
- As a response to customer feedback and issues with previous Kubernetes version patches that left a lot of users with hard options. The AKS Team is extending a limited scope of support for all clusters and nodepools on 1.18 as a courtesy. Customers with clusters and nodepools on 1.18 after the announced deprecation date of 2021-06-30 will be granted an extension of capabilities outside the usual scope of support for deprecated versions .The scope of this limited extension is effective from '2021-06-30 to 2021-07-31' and is limited to the following:
- Creation of new clusters and nodepools on 1.18.
- CRUD operations on 1.18 clusters.
- Azure Support of non-Kubernetes related, platform issues. Platform issues include trouble with networking, storage, or compute running on Azure. Any support requests for K8s patching and troubleshooting will be requested to upgrade into a supported version.
Release Notes
- Bug Fixes
- Added missing tolerations to Pod Identity Pods. Closes #2146.
- Component Updates
- AKS Ubuntu 18.04 image updated to AKSUbuntu-1804-2021.07.25.