Azure DevOps & Cloud-Native Updates - May 2024#
Introduction#
Welcome to our Monthly Azure DevOps and Cloud Tech Updates Series!
Welcome to my monthly blog series where we bring you a concise roundup of significant Azure updates pertinent to DevOps, keeping you in the loop with the latest advancements.
Let’s check what’s new!
Updates#
ACA#
- Public preview: Aspire dashboard support in Azure Container Apps
- Public preview: Dynamic sessions in Azure Container Apps
- Public Preview: Set Java log levels in Azure Container Apps
- Public Preview: Monitor apps with Java metrics in Azure Container Apps
- Generally Available: Azure Functions can now run on Azure Container Apps
- Public Preview: NFS Azure Files volume mount support in Azure Container Apps
ACR#
AI#
- Public Preview Azure OpenAI Semantic Caching policy in Azure API Management
- GA Azure OpenAI Emit Token Metric policy in Azure API Management
- GA Import Azure OpenAI enpoints as an APIs in Azure API Management
- GA Azure OpenAI Token Limit Policy in Azure API Management
- Azure Machine Learning - General Availability for Build 2024
- Azure Machine Learning - Public Preview for Build 2024
- Introducing GPT-4o: OpenAI’s new flagship multimodal model now in preview on Azure
AKS#
- Public Preview: Kubernetes Metadata and Logs Filtering in Azure Monitor - Container Insights
- Public preview: Advanced Container Networking Services for Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS)
- Public Preview: Azure HDInsight on AKS is now available for preview in 6 new regions
- Public preview of the App Configuration Extension for AKS
- Azure portal now offers in context observability for AKS object overviews
- Generally Available: Azure Kubernetes Fleet Manager workload orchestration
- Public preview: Kubernetes version 1.30 support in AKS
- Public preview: Azure Kubernetes Fleet Manager support for property-based scheduling and override
- Public preview: Deployment safeguards mutations in enforcement mode for AKS
- Generally Available: Automated deployments for AKS
- New version of AKS extension in Visual Studio Code now available
- Public preview: Initialization taints in AKS
- GA: Support for disabling Windows outboundNAT in AKS
Compute#
- General Availability: VM Hibernation for General Purpose VMs
- Public Preview: Migrate virtual machine backups using standard backup policy to enhanced backup policy
- Public Preview: Azure Site Recovery support for Azure Trusted Launch VMs (Windows OS)
- Public preview: Standby pools for Virtual Machine Scale Sets with flexible orchestration
Database#
- Generally Available: 32TB storage support in Azure Database for MySQL Flexible Server Business Critical
- Public Preview: Microsoft Copilot now offers supportability in Azure Database for MySQL
- Generally Available: Accelerated logs in Azure Database for MySQL - Flexible Server
- General availability: Azure SQL updates for late-May 2024
- Public Preview - On-demand backup and Export in Azure Database for MySQL - Flexible Server
- Public preview - Major version upgrade support for PostgreSQL 16
- Public Preview: Azure SQL updates for late-May 2024
- Public Preview: New Azure SQL Database skills introduced to Microsoft Copilot in Azure
- Public Preview: In-database embeddings in Azure Database for PostgreSQL - Flexible Server
- Public Preview: Index recommendations in Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server
- General Availability: Azure AI extension in Azure Database for PostgreSQL
- General Availability: Azure Cosmos DB Vercel integration
- Public Preview: DiskANN vector indexing and search in Azure Cosmos DB NoSQL
- General availability: Azure Cosmos DB Go SDK
- Public Preview: vCore-based Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB cross-region disaster recovery (DR)
- General availability: Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL integrations in LangChain and Semantic Kernel
- General availability: Computed properties in Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL
- General availability: Latest version of the TimeScaleDB extension on Azure Database for PostgreSQL - Flexible Server
- General availability: Latest PostgreSQL minor versions supported by Azure Database for PostgreSQL - Flexible Server
- General Availability: Azure Cosmos DB Data Explorer keyboard shortcuts
- General availability: Azure Cosmos DB API for MongoDB RU supports version 5.0 and 6.0
Functions#
- Public preview: Azure Functions support for HTTP streams in Python
- Generally Available: Azure Functions Support for HTTP Streams in Node.js
- Generally Available: Azure Functions extension for Dapr
- Public Preview: Azure Functions brings new flexibility with Azure Functions Flex Consumption
- Public preview: Get started with Azure Functions using Visual Studio Code for the Web
- Public preview: Azure Functions extension for OpenAI
- Public preview: SDK type bindings for Azure Blog Storage with Azure Functions in Python
- General availability: Azure Cache for Redis triggers and bindings for Azure Functions
Monitoring#
- Monitor effectively using Azure Monitor for Azure Site Recovery
- Public preview: Managed Prometheus visualizations for Azure Monitor container insights
- Public Preview Azure Logic Apps Monitoring Dashboard for Workflow Monitoring, Troubleshooting, and Resubmissions
Networking#
- Azure Virtual Network Manager’s virtual network verifier is now in public preview
- General availability: ExpressRoute Seamless Gateway Migration
- Public preview: Azure Application Gateway v2 Basic SKU
- Azure Virtual Network Manager user-defined route (UDR) management now in public preview
Storage#
- Azure Ultra Disk Storage is now available in Italy North
- Public Preview: Azure Storage Actions is now available in 14 more regions
Others#
- Public Preview: Analyze data using Log Analytics Simple mode
- Feature Update: Azure Action Groups
- Public preview: Azure Load Balancer now supports Admin State
- Public preview: Azure NetApp Files support for Active Directory connection per NetApp account
- Public preview: Azure Bastion Premium
- General Availability: Azure NetApp Files backup
- Public preview: Azure Load Balancer health event logs
- General availability: Azure NetApp Files support for large volumes up to 500TiB in size
- General availability: Activity log alerts can now run in EU Data Boundary
- General Availability: Azure API Center Extension for VS Code
- Visual Studio Code extension for sAzure Web PubSub now in preview
- Public preview: Azure NetApp Files application volume group for Oracle
- Announcing General Availability of Graph Semantics in Kusto
- Azure Firewall: New Regions Availability
- Expanding extensibility model to Pulumi in Azure Deployment Environments
- Public preview: Azure Firewall integration in Microsoft Copilot for Security
- Public preview: Azure Web Application Firewall (WAF) integration in Microsoft Copilot for Security
- New Azure Event Grid capabilities support IoT solutions, event sources
- Microsoft Dev Box introduces new ready-to-code and enterprise management capabilities
- GA Circuit Breaker in Azure API Management
- GA OData API type in Azure API Management
- GA Load Balancer in Azure API Management
- GA Support for gRPC APIs in Azure API Management Self-hosted Gateway
- GA Improved Onboarding Experience on VS Code for Azure Logic Apps Standard
- Public Preview Azure Logic Apps Standard .NET 8 Custom Code Support
- Public Preview Azure Logic Apps Standard Support for Zero Downtime deployment scenarios
- Public Preview Azure Logic Apps Standard Deployment Scripting Tools in VS Code
- GA EDI capabilities in Azure Logic Apps Standard
- Public Preview Azure Service Bus Enhancements
- Public Preview Azure Integration Account Enhancements
- Generally Available: KEDA in the Azure Portal
- Draft now supports best practices via deployment safeguards
- Public preview: Change from serverless to provisioned capacity mode
- Public preview: Azure Cache for Redis Enterprise now offers a 1GB E1 SKU
- Experimentation capabilities for Azure App Configuration now in public preview
- General availability: Azure Cache for Redis now supports Microsoft Entra ID authentication and authorization
- General Availability: Data API builder
- Public preview: Sensitive data protection for Azure Front Door Web Application Firewall
- Azure Front Door server variable enhancement generally available
- General availability: Azure Bastion Developer SKU
- General availability: Customer-managed keys on existing accounts
- Azure Front Door log scrubbing of sensitive data is generally available
- General Availability - Azure API Center
- Action needed: Update Azure Autoscale Notifications to using additional email addresses for notifications
- Azure Governance Update - Management Groups
- Generally available: Azure IoT Edge v1.5.0 (LTS) release