Azure/AKS 2021-09-16

Release 2021-09-16

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Release 2021-09-16

This release is rolling out to all regions - estimated time for completed roll out is 2021-09-23 for public cloud and 2021-09-30 for sovereign clouds.

Announcement

• In order to preserve any deallocated VMs, you must to set Scale-down Mode to Deallocate. That includes VMs that have been deallocated using IaaS APIs (Virtual Machine Scale Set APIs). Setting Scale-down Mode to Delete will remove any deallocated VMs.

Release Notes

• New Features
  • You can now integrate Azure HPC Cache with Azure Kubernetes Service.
• Preview Features
  • Cloud Controller Manager is now in Public Preview in anticipation of moving Azure specific controllers out of tree.
• Component Updates
  • AKS Ubuntu 18.04 image updated to AKSUbuntu-1804-2021.09.19 - please refer to the link for package versions in this VHD.
  • Azure Disk CSI driver has been updated to v1.7.0.
  • Azure File CSI driver has been updated to v1.6.0.
• Behavioral Change
  • AKS Private Cluster "none" parameter now defaults to public DNS which means AKS will not create a Private DNS Zone. This changes from the previous behavior of "none" being bring your own Private DNS.