What is Advanced Container Networking Services?

Advanced Container Networking Services is a suite of services built to significantly enhance the operational capabilities of your Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) clusters. The suite is comprehensive and is designed to address the multifaceted and intricate needs of modern containerized applications. With capabilities specifically tailored for observability, security, and compliance, customers can unlock a new approach to managing container networking.

With Advanced Container Networking Services, the focus is on delivering a seamless and integrated experience that empowers you to maintain robust security postures, ensure comprehensive compliance and gain deep insights into your network traffic and application performance. This ensures that your containerized applications are not only secure and compliant but also meet or exceed your performance and reliability goals, allowing you to confidently manage and scale your infrastructure.

Note

Advanced Container Networking Services is only available for clusters running Kubernetes 1.29 or higher.

What is included in Advanced Container Networking Services?

Advanced Network Observability is the inaugural feature of the Advanced Container Networking Services suite bringing the power of Hubble’s control plane to both Cilium and non-Cilium Linux data planes. While Advanced Network Observability is the foundation of the Advanced Container Networking Services suite, the feature set will evolve over time offering even more insights and providing yet more new & powerful ways to manage your AKS networks.

Advanced Network Observability

Advanced Network Observability equips you with next-level monitoring and diagnostics tools, providing unparalleled visibility into your containerized workloads. It unlocks Hubble metrics, Hubble’s command line interface (CLI) and the Hubble user interface (UI) on your AKS clusters providing deep, actionable insights into your containerized workloads. It allows you to precisely detect and root-cause network related issues in AKS through its next-level monitoring and diagnostics tools that provide unparalleled visibility. This ensures that your containerized applications are not only secure and compliant but also meet or exceed your performance and reliability goals, allowing you to confidently manage and scale your infrastructure.

For more information about Advanced Network Observability, see What is Advanced Network Observability?.

Pricing

Important

Advanced Container Networking Services will be a paid offering. For more information about pricing, see Advanced Container Networking Services - Pricing

Next steps

• For more information about Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), see What is Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)?.

• For more information about Advanced Network Observability, see What is Advanced Network Observability?.