AZ486809 - Public Preview: maxUnavailable Setting for Upgrades in AKS

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Published

Apr 2, 2025

Status

In preview

Timeline

  • April 2025
    Preview

Product

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

Tag

Features

Category

Compute
Containers

Description

AKS now supports setting a maxUnavailable option for upgrading nodepools to a newer version of both Kubernetes and node images. With maxUnavailable, you no longer need to use surge nodes to begin the upgrade process. AKS will instead simply cordon and drain existing nodes on the nodepool.  

 

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