Azure Kubernetes Service

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Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) is a managed service that you can use to run Kubernetes on Azure without needing to install, operate, and maintain your own Kubernetes control plane or nodes.

Release Schedule Image Gantt Chart for Azure Kubernetes Service
Release Released End of Support
1.31 3 weeks and 5 days ago
(25 Oct 2024)
Ends in 1 year
(30 Nov 2025)
1.30 (Upcoming LTS) 3 months and 2 weeks ago
(05 Aug 2024)
Ends in 1 year and 8 months
(31 Jul 2026)
1.29 8 months ago
(18 Mar 2024)
Ends in 4 months
(31 Mar 2025)
1.28 1 year ago
(07 Nov 2023)
Ends in 2 months and 1 week
(31 Jan 2025)
1.27 (LTS) 1 year and 3 months ago
(16 Aug 2023)
Ends in 8 months
(31 Jul 2025)
1.26 1 year and 7 months ago
(18 Apr 2023)
Ended 7 months ago
(11 Apr 2024)
1.25 1 year and 11 months ago
(14 Dec 2022)
Ended 10 months ago
(14 Jan 2024)
1.24 2 years and 3 months ago
(17 Aug 2022)
Ended 1 year and 3 months ago
(31 Jul 2023)
1.23 2 years and 6 months ago
(26 Apr 2022)
Ended 1 year and 7 months ago
(02 Apr 2023)
1.22 2 years and 10 months ago
(10 Jan 2022)
Ended 1 year and 11 months ago
(04 Dec 2022)
1.21 3 years ago
(18 Aug 2021)
Ended 2 years and 3 months ago
(31 Jul 2022)

AKS defines a generally available version as a version enabled in all SLO or SLA measurements and available in all regions. AKS supports three GA minor versions of Kubernetes:

  • The latest GA minor version released in AKS.
  • Two previous minor versions.

AKS also offers a limited Platform Support to the N-3 release, where N is the latest GA release. In Platform Support, the AKS Platform remains supported, but scenarios related to Kubernetes functionality and components (including security fixes) aren’t supported

Long Term Support releases receive support and security updates for two years (instead of the usual one year). Due to reliance on the upstream Kubernetes Community for component updates, several addons and features aren’t supported in LTS Support beyond one year. This currently includes: Istio, Calico, Keda, KMS, Dapr, Application Gateway Ingress Controller, Open Service Mesh, and AAD Pod Identity.

More information is available on the Azure Kubernetes Service website.

You can check the version that you are currently using by running:
az aks show --resource-group myResourceGroup --name myAKSCluster

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