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November (8)

azure: [In preview] Public Preview: Pod CIDR expansion in Azure CNI Overlay for AKS

Azure Updates

2025-11-14

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) now provides Pod CIDR expansion in the Azure CNI Overlay as a public preview to help clusters support larger and more dynamic Kubernetes workloads.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Azure Virtual Network Manager UseExisting Mode for UDR management

Azure Updates

2025-11-13

Azure Virtual Network Manager (AVNM) UDR management is generally available with a new UseExisting mode that detects existing user-defined routes (UDRs) and appends required routes rather than replacing customer route entries, giving customers more flexibility and compliance control.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Azure Virtual Network Manager peering compliance

Azure Updates

2025-11-13

Azure Virtual Network Manager peering compliance is now generally available, delivering a secure, centralized way to enforce and monitor VNet peering rules to protect network connectivity managed by Azure Virtual Network Manager — particularly valuable in large-scale environments to prevent unintended peerings and ensure governance.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Azure Virtual Network Manager IP Address Management Pool Association Recommendation

Azure Updates

2025-11-13

Azure Virtual Network Manager IP Address Management (IPAM) – Pool Association Recommendation is now generally available, delivering intelligent, large-scale automation to help organizations manage and associate IPAM pools across their expanding Azure network footprint and reduce manual effort and errors.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: LocalDNS for AKS

Azure Updates

2025-11-11

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) announces general availability of LocalDNS, a built-in local DNS caching solution designed to reduce DNS resolution delays and improve reliability for large-scale clusters that experience high query volumes or upstream outages.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Monitor end-to-end ExpressRoute connectivity with Connection Monitor

Azure Updates

2025-11-05

Azure has made Connection Monitor integration generally available for ExpressRoute, allowing end-to-end connectivity monitoring to be enabled directly when creating or updating ExpressRoute connections.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: ExpressRoute resiliency insights

Azure Updates

2025-11-05

Azure has announced general availability of Resiliency Insights for ExpressRoute. This assessment capability measures network reliability for ExpressRoute workloads using a resiliency index — a percentage score calculated from factors such as route resilience (source content truncated).

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: ExpressRoute resiliency validation

Azure Updates

2025-11-05

Azure has made ExpressRoute Resiliency Validation generally available. The feature lets you perform site failovers for your Virtual Network Gateway to assess and validate network connectivity resiliency for ExpressRoute-enabled workloads.

October (4)

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: High Scale Private Endpoints

Azure Updates

2025-10-30

Azure announced General Availability for High Scale Private Endpoints (HSPE), letting customers raise the per‑Virtual Network limit on Azure Private Endpoints above the previous 1,000 endpoint cap. HSPE enables larger, production‑scale VNet designs that require many private endpoints while keeping the existing Private Endpoint connectivity model.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Azure SQL updates for mid-October 2025

Azure Updates

2025-10-22

In mid-October 2025 Azure SQL announced Generally Available updates: the redirect connection type was improved to require only port 1433 and promoted to the default, and you can convert an Azure SQL Database to Hyperscale while preserving existing geo configurations.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Enhanced cloning and Public IP retention scripts for Azure Application Gateway migration

Azure Updates

2025-10-20

Azure released two PowerShell scripts to simplify migrating Application Gateway from V1 (Standard or WAF) to V2 (Standard_V2 or WAF_V2): an enhanced cloning script and a public IP retention script. V1 SKUs are scheduled for retirement in April 2026, so customers are advised to migrate early to V2 and take advantage of its features.

k8s: 7 Common Kubernetes Pitfalls (and How I Learned to Avoid Them)

Kubernetes Official Blog

2025-10-20

The article outlines seven common Kubernetes pitfalls the author encountered—missing resource requests/limits, inadequate liveness/readiness probes, overreliance on kubectl logs, treating dev and prod identically, leaving stale resources, jumping into advanced networking too early, and weak security/RBAC—and gives pragmatic, experience-based advice to avoid each one.