Azure Day at KubeCon: AKS Runs 22,655 Agents on 65 Nodes in Live Demo
davemccollough · x · 2026-11-12
A recap of Azure Day with Kubernetes in Salt Lake City before KubeCon NA 2026, with key AKS updates:
- Agent Substrate ran 22,655 agents on 65 nodes in a live density demo
- KMS vNext is on by default for new 1.37 clusters; existing clusters get it on upgrade to 1.38
- AKS on bare metal and flex nodes, with real hardware shown at the event
- Fleet Manager and KubeFleet bring annotation-based placement and GitOps at fleet scale
- AKS Cost Export is coming soon, with daily cost by namespace
- Platform-initiated upgrades for unsupported clusters start June 2027
The overall theme: AKS doing more by default while giving more ways to run it anywhere, with many features already GA or in public preview.
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