With this release, you can now establish a secure tunnel from your local machine—via Azure Bastion—directly to your AKS API server using your standard Kubernetes tooling. This enables seamless access to both private clusters and public clusters with API server authorized IP ranges. Now, you can securely connect to your cluster’s API server from anywhere, without the need for complex VPNs, jump boxes, or exposing public endpoints. This is a significant leap forward in simplifying secure access for developers, operators, and partners working with private AKS environments.