GA: Support for disabling Windows outboundNAT in AKS

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Published

May 8, 2024

Status

Launched

Timeline

  • May 2024
    General Availability

Product

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

Tag

Features
Security

Category

Compute
Containers

Description

Windows OutboundNAT can cause certain connection and communication issues with your AKS pods. An example issue is node port reuse. In this example, Windows OutboundNAT uses ports to translate your pod IP to your Windows node host IP, which can cause an unstable connection to the external service due to a port exhaustion issue.

Windows enables OutboundNAT by default. You can now manually disable OutboundNAT when creating new Windows agent pools.

Learn more.