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 | Released | End of Support |
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| 1.31 | 6 months ago (25 Oct 2024) |
Ends
in 7 months (30 Nov 2025)
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| 1.30 (Upcoming LTS) | 9 months ago (05 Aug 2024) |
Ends
in 1 year and 2 months (31 Jul 2026)
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| 1.29 | 1 year and 1 month ago (18 Mar 2024) |
Ended
1 month and 3 days ago (31 Mar 2025)
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| 1.28 | 1 year and 5 months ago (07 Nov 2023) |
Ended
3 months ago (31 Jan 2025)
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| 1.27 (LTS) | 1 year and 8 months ago (16 Aug 2023) |
Ends
in 2 months and 4 weeks (31 Jul 2025)
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| 1.26 | 2 years ago (18 Apr 2023) |
Ended
1 year ago (11 Apr 2024)
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| 1.25 | 2 years and 4 months ago (14 Dec 2022) |
Ended
1 year and 3 months ago (14 Jan 2024)
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| 1.24 | 2 years and 8 months ago (17 Aug 2022) |
Ended
1 year and 9 months ago (31 Jul 2023)
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| 1.23 | 3 years ago (26 Apr 2022) |
Ended
2 years ago (02 Apr 2023)
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| 1.22 | 3 years ago (10 Jan 2022) |
Ended
2 years and 5 months ago (04 Dec 2022)
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| 1.21 | 3 years and 8 months ago (18 Aug 2021) |
Ended
2 years and 9 months ago (31 Jul 2022)
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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.
- AKS release notes are available on https://github.com/Azure/AKS/.
- News about AKS can be received by following the AKS feed in Azure Updates.
- Release status by regions can be monitored at AKS-Release-Tracker.
- AKS Docs include an Upgrade Guide.
More information is available on the Azure Kubernetes Service website.
az aks show --resource-group myResourceGroup --name myAKSCluster
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