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2026 (1)

January (1)

azure: [In preview] Public Preview: Azure Command Launcher for Java

Azure Updates

2026-01-27

Microsoft announced the Public Preview of the Azure Command Launcher for Java at Microsoft Ignite 2025. The launcher is a new JVM launcher optimized for Azure that provides better default ergonomics for Java applications running in containers and virtual machines.

2025 (9)

November (8)

azure: [In preview] Public Preview: Dynamic sessions shell environment and MCP support in Azure Container Apps

Azure Updates

2025-11-18

Azure Container Apps announced a public preview of dynamic shell sessions — platform-managed, built-in containers that provide isolated, sandboxed environments to run and execute common shell commands. The update also adds MCP support.

azure: [In preview] Public Preview: Azure Container Apps introduces flexible workload profile

Azure Updates

2025-11-18

Azure Container Apps launched a Public Preview of a flexible workload profile that combines the simplicity and pay-per-use serverless model of consumption plans with many performance and control characteristics typically found in dedicated workload profiles.

azure: [In preview] Public Preview: Azure Container Apps adds support for agentic Docker Compose

Azure Updates

2025-11-18

Azure Container Apps is announcing a public preview that brings Docker Compose support to the service, enabling developers to use their existing docker-compose workflows to define and run multi-container applications directly on Azure Container Apps. This integration aims to simplify deployment and lower the friction for moving compose-based projects to the cloud.

azure: [In preview] Public Preview: Application Gateway for Containers Istio Service Mesh integration

Azure Updates

2025-11-18

Application Gateway for Containers is in public preview for integration with the Istio service mesh via an optional service mesh extension, enabling simplified secure north–south communication between external clients and services inside the mesh.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: OpenShift Virtualization now available on Azure Red Hat OpenShift

Azure Updates

2025-11-18

Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization is now generally available on Azure Red Hat OpenShift (ARO), enabling customers to run and manage virtual machines and containers from a single cloud-native platform. The GA release builds on feedback from the preview announced at Red Hat Summit.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: GitHub Copilot app modernization expanded capabilities

Azure Updates

2025-11-18

Azure announced Generally Available enhancements to GitHub Copilot App Modernization, expanding capabilities to simplify modernization of applications, databases and containers and to accelerate migrations to Azure.

azure: [In preview] Public Preview: GitHub Copilot app modernization expanded capabilities

Azure Updates

2025-11-18

Microsoft announced public preview enhancements to GitHub Copilot App Modernization that expand capabilities to help modernize applications, databases, and containers and accelerate migrations to Azure.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Application Gateway for Containers with Web Application Firewall (WAF)

Azure Updates

2025-11-10

Azure announces general availability of Web Application Firewall (WAF) support for Application Gateway for Containers, the next evolution of Application Gateway combined with the Application Gateway Ingress Controller.

August (1)

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Azure SQL updates for late-August 2025

Azure Updates

2025-08-28

Azure SQL and SQL Server received updates in late August 2025, including the general availability of local SQL Server containers via the MSSQL extension for Visual Studio Code.