Enhance the security and operational capabilities of your Azure Kubernetes Service with Advanced Container Networking Services, now generally available

By Dustin Ward

With the increased adoption of cloud-native technologies, containers and Kubernetes have become the backbone of modern application deployments. Microservices-based container workloads are easier to scale, more portable, and resource-efficient. With Kubernetes managing these workloads, organizations can deploy advanced AI and machine learning applications across diverse compute resources, significantly improving operational productivity at scale. With this…

Advanced Container Networking Services: Enhancing security and observability in AKS

By Dustin Ward

Microsoft’s Azure Container Networking team is excited to announce new enhancements to Advanced Container Networking Services. Following the success of advanced network observability, which provides deep insights into network traffic within Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) clusters, we’re introducing fully qualified domain name (FQDN) filtering as a new security feature. What is Advanced Container Networking Services?…

Embrace the future of container native storage with Azure Container Storage

By Dustin Ward

We are thrilled to announce the general availability of Microsoft Azure Container Storage, the industry’s first platform-managed container native storage service in the public cloud. With Kubernetes driving cloud evolution, we are witnessing a transformative shift as enterprises move from virtual machines (VMs) to containers, optimizing for scalability, flexibility, and cost efficiency. We introduce Azure…