Operator and CRD support with Azure Managed Prometheus

Azure Monitor managed service for Prometheus will support CRD-based configs for scrape jobs to collect metrics from workloads running in your AKS cluster. With this new update, customers can use custom resources (service monitor and pod monitor) to configure metric collection with Managed Prometheus. Source: Microsoft Azure – aggiornamenti

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Microsoft open sources Retina: A cloud-native container networking observability platform

The Microsoft’s Azure Container Networking team is announcing Retina, a cloud-native container networking observability platform that enables Kubernetes users, admins, and developers to visualize, observe, debug, and analyze Kubernetes’ workload traffic irrespective of Container Network Interface (CNI), operating system (OS), and cloud. Source: Microsoft Azure – aggiornamenti

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Public preview: Kubernetes AI Toolchain Operator (KAITO) add-on for AKS

You can now choose from preset LLMs with images hosted by AKS and split inferencing across multiple lower-GPU count VMs Source: Microsoft Azure – aggiornamenti

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Open-Source Fleet Workload Placement Scheduling and Override

You can now schedule workloads in Fleet based on cost and availability of resource heuristics. Source: Microsoft Azure – aggiornamenti

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Generally Available: Cost analysis add-on for AKS

You can now better understand the infra costs associated with running applications at the namespace and cluster levels and identify opportunities to optimize resource utilization through an Azure native experience. Source: Microsoft Azure – aggiornamenti

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Public preview: Windows GPU support in AKS

You can now run GPU workloads, such as machine learning, video encoding, large simulations, and gaming, on Windows nodepools in AKS. Source: Microsoft Azure – aggiornamenti

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Generally Available: Windows Gen 2 VM support in AKS

YOu can now use Gen 2 VM SKUs for Windows nodepools in AKS. Source: Microsoft Azure – aggiornamenti

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Generally Available: Custom kubelet configuration for Windows in AKS

You can now modify default values for kubelet parameters when using Windows nodepools in AKS. Source: Microsoft Azure – aggiornamenti

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Generally Available: Kubernetes 1.29 support in AKS

You can now take advantage of Kubernetes 1.29 version with AKS in production environment. Source: Microsoft Azure – aggiornamenti

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Public preview: Deployment safeguards in AKS

You can now use deployment safeguards to implement Kubernetes best practices and get warnings on deployment or deny the deployment of manifest files that are not following best practices. Source: Microsoft Azure – aggiornamenti

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