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2025 (12)

October (9)

k8s: Introducing Headlamp Plugin for Karpenter - Scaling and Visibility

Kubernetes Official Blog

2025-10-06

The Headlamp Karpenter Plugin integrates Karpenter autoscaling visibility into the Headlamp Kubernetes UI, providing real‑time maps, metrics, scaling decisions, pending‑pod diagnostics, and an editable, validated config editor to help users understand, debug, and tune node provisioning and autoscaling behavior.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Cross-tenant customer-managed keys for Azure NetApp Files volume encryption

Azure Updates

2025-10-03

Azure NetApp Files now generally supports cross-tenant customer-managed keys (CMK) for volume encryption, letting customers use and control their own encryption keys across different Azure tenancies to increase control and flexibility.

azure: Retirement: Azure VPN Gateway support for SSTP Protocol will be retired on March 31, 2027

Azure Updates

2025-10-03

Azure VPN Gateway will retire support for the SSTP protocol on March 31, 2027. Microsoft cites limited scalability and suboptimal performance and advises customers to migrate to IKEv2 or OpenVPN, which offer significantly improved capabilities (including support for up to 10,000 connections).

azure: [In preview] Public Preview: Azure NetApp Files Support for OpenLDAP, FreeIPA, and Red Hat Directory Server LDAP services

Azure Updates

2025-10-03

Azure NetApp Files is in public preview for integration with FreeIPA, OpenLDAP, and Red Hat Directory Server, providing secure LDAP over TLS connectivity for NFSv3 and NFSv4.1 volumes so enterprises can use these directory services for identity management.

azure: Retirement: General Purpose v1 (GPv1) and legacy blob storage accounts

Azure Updates

2025-10-03

Microsoft announced the retirement of all General purpose v1 (GPv1) storage accounts — including legacy blob storage accounts — as part of efforts to streamline the Azure Storage portfolio and improve performance, scalability, and cost efficiency.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: New Health Check infrastructure for Azure Traffic Manager

Azure Updates

2025-10-02

Azure Traffic Manager's new health check infrastructure is now generally available. The update improves the service's resiliency and scalability, and Microsoft is migrating customers to the new probing infrastructure as the rollout progresses.

azure: Retirement: Azure Machine Learning - Data labeling Deprecation

Azure Updates

2025-10-01

Azure Machine Learning's built-in data labeling capability will be retired on September 30, 2026. Customers can continue to use the service until that date but should plan to transition to third‑party data labeling providers before the retirement.

azure: Retirement: Azure Network Policy Manager (NPM) for Linux nodes on AKS to Be Retired by September 30, 2028

Azure Updates

2025-10-01

Azure will retire Azure Network Policy Manager (NPM) on Linux nodes in AKS on September 30, 2028. Customers must migrate AKS clusters using NPM to Cilium Network Policy before that date to avoid disruptions.

ai: Introducing Microsoft Agent Framework: The Open-Source Engine for Agentic AI Apps

Microsoft AI Foundry Blog

2025-10-01

Microsoft announced the open-source Microsoft Agent Framework, an engine designed for building agentic AI applications. The framework addresses the evolving needs of AI agents — which go beyond chatbots and copilots — by enabling autonomous components that can reason about goals, call tools and APIs, collaborate with other agents, and adapt dynamically. The announcement appeared on the Azure AI Foundry Blog.

September (3)

azure: [In preview] Public Preview: Soft Delete feature in Azure Compute Gallery

Azure Updates

2025-09-30

Azure Compute Gallery now has a Public Preview of a Soft Delete feature that lets you recover accidentally deleted images within a 7-day retention period.

github: Secret scanning adds validators for MongoDB, Meta, and Microsoft Azure

GitHub

2025-09-30

GitHub Secret Scanning has added validity-check validators for secrets related to MongoDB, Meta, and Microsoft Azure. These new checks augment existing validators to improve detection of provider-specific credentials and prevent accidental commits of valid secrets.

azure: Retirement: Support for Service Connector (preview) on Azure Container Apps will end on March 30th, 2026

Azure Updates

2025-09-30

Microsoft will end support for Service Connector (preview) on Azure Container Apps on March 30, 2026. After that date the preview Service Connector will no longer be supported on Azure Container Apps; consult the original update for details and next steps.