Anyscale on Azure reaches general availability with managed Ray on your own AKS cluster
Anyscale on Azure went generally available on October 7, closing out a run that started with a private preview in November 2025 and a public preview at Microsoft Build this June. The short version: managed Ray on Kubernetes, but the Kubernetes cluster is yours, sitting in your Azure subscription, and the bill lands on your […]
Ubuntu 26.04 Comes to AKS in Public Preview: Inside the Ubuntu2604 OS SKU
Azure Kubernetes Service added public preview support for Ubuntu 26.04 on September 30, 2026, through a new versioned OS SKU called Ubuntu2604. The SKU is built on Ubuntu Minimal rather than the standard Ubuntu Server image, which changes what lands on your nodes before a single container starts. Anyone who manages Ubuntu node pools should […]