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k8s: Kubernetes v1.34: Pods Report DRA Resource Health

Kubernetes Official Blog

2025-09-17

Kubernetes v1.34 introduces an alpha feature (ResourceHealthStatus) that lets Dynamic Resource Allocation (DRA) drivers report device health into a Pod's status via a new dra-health/v1alpha1 gRPC service, enabling the Kubelet to surface per-device health in v1.ContainerStatus. This improves debuggability for hardware-backed workloads by showing device health (Healthy/Unhealthy/Unknown) in allocatedResourcesStatus and requires enabling the feature gate and compatible DRA drivers.

azure: [In preview] Public Preview: Azure Functions .NET 10 support

Azure Updates

2025-09-17

Azure Functions now supports .NET 10 in Public Preview. To use it, change the Functions project's target framework and update Microsoft.Azure.Functions.Worker.Sdk to version 2.0.5 or later. The announcement also indicates .NET 10 projects can be deployed to app (source content truncated).

dotnet: Prompt Files and Instructions Files Explained

.NET

2025-09-17

A .NET Blog post explaining how GitHub Copilot's prompt files and instruction files help .NET developers guide and standardize AI-assisted code generation to improve productivity and consistency.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Introducing the new Network Security Hub experience

Azure Updates

2025-09-17

Azure has made the expanded and rebranded Azure Firewall Manager generally available as the Network Security Hub — a centralized management experience that consolidates Azure Firewall, Web Application Firewall (WAF), and DDoS Protection to simplify policy, visibility, and protection across deployments.

azure: [In preview] Public Preview: Databricks One in Azure Databricks

Azure Updates

2025-09-17

Databricks One is available in Azure Databricks as a public preview offering a unified, simplified platform that combines data engineering, analytics, and AI development into a single, governed environment with integrated collaboration and enterprise governance.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Confidential computing for Azure Database for PostgreSQL flexible server

Azure Updates

2025-09-17

Azure Database for PostgreSQL — Flexible Server now generally available with Confidential Computing support, using hardware-based trusted execution environments (TEEs) to protect data while it is being processed.

ai: Ground Your Agents Faster with Native Azure AI Search Indexing in Foundry

Microsoft AI Foundry Blog

2025-09-17

Azure AI Foundry now can create a production-ready Azure AI Search vector index natively during agent grounding, enabling immediate indexing with no prior search setup and speeding agent deployment to production.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: At-cost data transfer between Azure and an external endpoint

Azure Updates

2025-09-16

Azure has made at-cost data transfer generally available in Europe, allowing customers and CSP partners to pay only the underlying cost for internet data transfers between Azure and external endpoints.

github: Delegated bypass controls for push protection now available at the enterprise level

GitHub

2025-09-16

GitHub now offers delegated bypass controls for push protection at the enterprise level. Administrators can choose who is allowed to bypass secret-scanning push protections and designate reviewers for bypass requests, centrally managing approvers to improve governance and reduce risk.

azure: Retirement: Azure Kubernetes Service on VMware will be retired on March 16, 2026 - Replace with Azure Kubernetes Service on Azure Local

Azure Updates

2025-09-16

Azure Kubernetes Service on VMware (preview) will be retired on March 16, 2026; customers should transition to Azure Kubernetes Service on Azure Local by that date.

k8s: Kubernetes v1.34: Moving Volume Group Snapshots to v1beta2

Kubernetes Official Blog

2025-09-16

Kubernetes v1.34 advances Volume Group Snapshots to v1beta2. The update adds a VolumeSnapshotInfo type and replaces VolumeSnapshotHandlePairList with VolumeSnapshotInfoList to fix restoreSize handling when CSI drivers do not implement ListSnapshots; objects are migrated from v1beta1 via a conversion webhook and the feature remains CSI-only with GA planned later.

github: Conda ecosystem support for Dependabot now generally available

GitHub

2025-09-16

GitHub Dependabot now supports parsing and updating Conda environment.yml files, providing both security and version updates for Conda-based Python projects; the feature is generally available.