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    AKS Ends Azure NPM Support on Windows Nodes September 30, 2026

    Azure Kubernetes Service will stop supporting Azure Network Policy Manager on Windows nodes on September 30, 2026, but Windows administrators cannot simply follow Microsoft’s standard NPM-to-Cilium migration playbook. Azure CNI Powered by Cilium and Cilium Network Policy remain Linux-only in...
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    Linux Kernel BPF Redirect skb Scrubbing Fix CVE-2025-37959

    The Linux kernel received a targeted fix for CVE-2025-37959 — a BPF-related packet-scrubbing bug that could cause *socket buffer (skb) metadata from one network namespace to be preserved and misapplied after a bpf_redirect_peer redirection — a behavior which broke container networking (notably...
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    AKS Automatic GA: Frictionless, Production-Ready Kubernetes on Azure

    Microsoft has made Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) Automatic generally available, offering an “opinionated” — but fully Kubernetes‑compatible — managed mode that stitches together autoscaling, node lifecycle management, observability, and security defaults to deliver production‑ready clusters...
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    AKS Automatic: Production-Ready Kubernetes with Less Operational Burden

    Microsoft’s AKS Automatic is the kind of product that reads like a direct answer to a single question enterprises have been asking for years: how do we keep Kubernetes’ benefits without paying an ever‑rising Kubernetes tax in staff, time, and outages? Background Kubernetes is the default runtime...
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    AKS Automatic: Production-Ready, One-Click Kubernetes on Azure

    Azure has made a decisive push to lower the operational friction of Kubernetes with the general availability of Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) Automatic — an opinionated, fully managed mode of AKS that ships production-ready clusters with preselected networking, security, scaling, and...