Azure at KubeCon India 2024 | Delhi, India – 11-12 December

Microsoft

Dec 11, 2024

Welcome to KubeCon + CloudNativeCon India 2024! We're excited to be part of the inaugural event, where we'll highlight the newest advancements in Azure and Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) and engage with the vibrant cloud-native community in India.

We are pleased to announce several new capabilities in Azure Kubernetes Service focused on AI apps development, ease of use, and features to enhance security, scalability, and networking. Here are the key highlights:

Simplifying AI Apps Development

AI is becoming increasingly crucial as it empowers organizations to leverage cutting-edge technologies to drive innovation and improve their products and services. By providing intuitive tools and extensions, we aim to make AI more accessible to developers, enabling them to deploy and manage AI models with ease.

The AI toolchain operator (KAITO) managed add-on is now available in the AKS Visual Studio Code extension. This add-on simplifies AI inference development with an intuitive and visually engaging UI, allowing customers to deploy open-source AI models to their AKS cluster directly from VSCode.
AKS plugins in GitHub Copilot for Azure enable various tasks related to AKS directly from the GitHub Copilot Chat view, including creating an AKS cluster, deploying a manifest, and generating kubectl commands.
Easily specify your GPU driver type for your Windows GPU node pools to ensure workload and driver compatibility and run compute-intensive Kubernetes workloads.

Enhanced Security, Scalability, and Networking

Security, scalability, and networking are critical for ensuring the robustness and reliability of Kubernetes deployments. We provide users with the tools they need to maintain high availability and secure their environments, and are rolling out features that improve disaster recovery, protection, and network management.

A new managed solution in AKS restricts IMDS endpoint access for customer pods, enhancing overall security.
Vaulted backups for AKS enable cross-region disaster recovery, long-term retention, and enhanced security with immutable backups through Azure Backup.
Support for private ingress on cluster creation or through API grants users more granular control over ingress controller configuration.

Ease of use

AKS is also introducing new capabilities to streamline the user experience and reduce the complexity of managing Kubernetes environments. This includes simplifying notifications, defaulting to parallel image pulls in AKS 1.31, improving the UI for automated deployments, and enhancing logging capabilities to help users save time.

AKS Communication Manager simplifies notifications for all AKS maintenance tasks, providing timely alerts on event triggers and outcomes.
Enhanced AKS logs with Kubernetes metadata and logs filtering, provide richer context and improved visibility into workloads.

We’re excited to meet up with you at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon

We hope you’re as excited as we are about the first ever KubeCon + CloudNativeCon India 2024. Azure and Kubernetes have some exciting innovations to offer, and we’re eager to share them with you. Be sure to connect with our team on site:

Don’t miss the keynote with Microsoft speaker: On Thursday 12 December 2024 at 10:00 AM IST, Lachlan Evenson will deliver a keynote on how to get started in the open-source and Kubernetes community.
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