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Announcements
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- Starting with Kubernetes 1.25, the following changes will be made default:
- Ubuntu 22.04 for x86, AMD and ARM64 architectures will be the default host.
- Windows Server 2022 will be the default Windows host. Important, old windows 2019 containers will not work on windows server 2022 hosts.
- Azure Cloud Provider for Azure will use v1.25
- Kubernetes 1.21 version has been deprecated as of July 31st, 2022. See documentation on how to upgrade your cluster.
- Some AKS labels have been deprecated with the Kubernetes 1.24 release. Update your AKS labels to the recommended substitutions. See more information on label deprecations and how to update your labels in the Use labels in an AKS cluster documentation.
- Docker is no longer supported as a container runtime on Windows. Follow these steps in our documentation to upgrade your Kubernetes cluster to change your container runtime to containerd.
Release notes
- Features
- Windows Server 2022 is now GA on AKS. Take a look at our documentation for guidance on upgrading your workloads from Windows Server 2019 to 2022 and adding new Windows Server 2022 nodepools. Windows Server 2019 will remain default for nodepool creation until kubernetes 1.25. Important, old windows 2019 containers will not work on windows server 2022 hosts.
- Component Updates
- Virtual Kubelet component of AKS Virtual Nodes was updates to v1.4.4 from v1.4.1 vk1.4.4.
- AKS Windows 2019 image has been updated to 17763.3406.220913
- AKS Windows 2022 image has been updated to 20348.1006.220913
- AKS Ubuntu 18.04 image updated to AKSUbuntu-1804-2022.09.13