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Written by Jan 21, 2026

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Ubuntu 24.04 support in AKS

Jan 21, 2026

Ubuntu 24.04 is now generally available as a node OS on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) beginning with Kubernetes version 1.32. The Ubuntu 24.04 node image on AKS uses containerd 2.0 as the default container runtime. This gives customers a supported, modern OS option when planning OS upgrades for their clusters.

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