Reading Time: 11 minutesI spent the day before KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2026 at Azure Day with Kubernetes in Salt Lake City. It’s the AKS pre-day, and it’s always one of my favourite parts of the week. You get the product team Read more
Reading Time: 5 minutesI picked this one up via my AKS Docs Tracker over the weekend. A brand new article, Use the Upgrade Insights API in AKS (preview), appeared on Microsoft Learn, and it describes something I’ve wanted for a long time. A proper dry run Read more
Reading Time: 7 minutesI spotted this land in the aks-preview extension recently whilst keeping an eye on the AKS CLI pull requests. Azure/azure-cli-extensions#10448 adds –enable-upgrade-gate and –disable-upgrade-gate, and the description mentioned health-aware upgrades. That was enough for me to spin up a cluster and have a poke around. Read more
Reading Time: 18 minutesMicrosoft has added flex nodes to Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), and it’s one of the more interesting preview features I’ve seen land in a while. I picked it up through the AKS docs, had to read it twice before it Read more
Reading Time: 7 minutesPrepared Image Specification (PIS) for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) is in preview, and I’ve been putting it through its paces. The premise is straightforward. You pre-bake stable container images and host customisations into an AKS-managed node image so pods do Read more
Reading Time: 4 minutesI spotted this land in the aks-preview extension recently. Microsoft has merged support for a control plane scaling profile into the AKS CLI, introducing what the API calls “hyperscale” control plane sizes. For the first time you can specify a Read more
Reading Time: 3 minutesI picked this one up via the AKS Docs Tracker I run here. A new PR landed in the azure-aks-docs repo adding documentation for Shared Maintenance Windows, and it caught my attention straight away. If you’ve ever managed planned maintenance Read more
Reading Time: 9 minutesMicrosoft has shipped Automatic Pod Disruption Budget management for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). If you have ever sat watching an AKS upgrade stall because Kubernetes refused to evict a pod, this one is worth your attention. I have been on Read more
Reading Time: 5 minutesIf you have ever watched a routine cluster configuration change silently reimage your node pools mid-business-hours and wondered why you had no say in the matter, this feature is for you. Two PRs landed in the azure-cli-extensions repo recently that Read more
Reading Time: 6 minutesBicep 0.45.6 added ociEnabled, an experimental feature that routes module pulls through ORAS using Docker-style credentials instead of the Azure SDK. I have been waiting for something like this for a long time. If you work at an MSP or Read more