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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
1.25 2 months ago
(14 Dec 2022)
Ends in 7 months
(30 Sep 2023)
1.24 5 months and 4 weeks ago
(19 Aug 2022)
Ends in 4 months and 2 weeks
(30 Jun 2023)
1.23 9 months ago
(26 Apr 2022)
Ends in 1 month and 2 weeks
(31 Mar 2023)
1.22 2 years ago
(10 Jan 2021)
Ended 2 months and 1 week ago
(04 Dec 2022)
1.21 1 year and 6 months ago
(26 Jul 2021)
Ended 6 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.

Each supported minor version also supports a maximum of two stable patches.

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.

Note that Calico isn’t supported in AKS 1.25 and above.

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

You can submit an improvement to this page on GitHub :octocat: . This page has a corresponding Talk Page.

A JSON version of this page is available at /api/azure-kubernetes-service.json. See the API Documentation for more information. You can subscribe to the iCalendar feed at /calendar/azure-kubernetes-service.ics.

This page was last updated on 28 December 2022.