Azure/AKS 2022-07-10.1

Release 2022-07-10

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Release 2022-07-10

This release is rolling out to all regions - estimated time for completed roll out is 2022-07-22 for public cloud and 2022-07-25 for sovereign clouds.
Monitor the release status by regions at AKS-Release-Tracker.

Announcements

• Starting with Kubernetes 1.24, the following changes will be made default:
  • The default format of clusterUser credential for AAD enabled clusters will be ‘exec’, which requires kubelogin binary in the execution PATH. If you are using Azure CLI, it will prompt users to download kubelogin. There will be no behavior change for non-AAD clusters, or AAD clusters whose version is older than 1.24. Existing downloaded kubeconfig will still work. We provide an optional query parameter ‘format’ when getting clusterUser credential to overwrite the default behavior change, you can explicitly specify format to ‘azure’ to get old format kubeconfig.
  • The NodeRestriction Admission Controller will be enabled. This will allow users to enable/disable node restriction.
  • CoreDNS version 1.9.2 will be default version. With this new version of CoreDNS wildcard queries are no longer allowed.
  • metrics-server version 0.6.1 will be the default version.
  • metrics-server vertical pod autoscaler will be enabled.
• Kubernetes 1.21 version deprecation will start taking effect from July 31st, 2022.
• Update your AKS labels to the recommended substitutions before deprecation after the Kubernetes v1.24 release. See more information on label deprecations and how to update your labels in the Use labels in an AKS cluster documentation.
• Konnectivity rollout is finished in global and started in Sovereign (China, USGov).

Release notes

• Features
  • Microsoft Defender cloud-native security agent for AKS clusters is now generally available.
• Bug Fixes
  • The nodepools will not inherit node resource group tags in az aks create --tags and az aks update --tags scenarios. Because nodepools have az aks nodepool add --tags and az aks nodepool update --tags.
• Component Updates
  • AKS Ubuntu 18.04 image updated to AKSUbuntu-1804-2022.07.04.
  • omsagent update ciprod06272022.