Docker container runtime retirement for Windows node pools effective May 1, 2023

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Published

Mar 24, 2023

Timeline

  • May 2023
    Retirement

Product

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

Tag

Retirements

Category

Compute
Containers

Description

Docker container runtime will be retired for Windows node pools on May 1, 2023. After docker container runtime is retired, you may remain on existing deployed instances but scaling operations will fail, node pool creation will fail, and you will be out of support. Follow the detailed steps in our documentation to upgrade to container.