eBPF Host Routing Hits General Availability in Advanced Container Networking Services for AKS
Running high throughput or low latency distributed systems on Kubernetes often hits an unexpected bottleneck inside the Linux kernel network stack. Microsoft has officially announced the general availability of eBPF Host Routing within Advanced Container Networking Services (ACNS) for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). This release fundamentally transforms how network packets move between pods and nodes […]
Prepared Image Specification on AKS tackles the cold-start node problem
What is Prepared Image Specification? If you run AI training jobs, GPU inference, or large Windows workloads on AKS, you have probably noticed the startup lag. A new node joins the cluster, and then it spends minutes pulling container images before it can actually run anything. For autoscaling events, those minutes add up. Azure’s Prepared […]