Remove Azure Linux limitation for AKS LTS

Author: suhuruli

articles/aks/long-term-support.md

@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ LTS intends to give you an extended period of time to plan and test for upgrades
 
 ## Enable long-term support
 
-Enabling and disabling long-term support is a combination of moving your cluster to the Premium tier and explicitly selecting the LTS support plan.  
+Enabling and disabling long-term support is a combination of moving your cluster to the Premium tier and explicitly selecting the LTS support plan. LTS is supported on both Ubuntu and Azure Linux AKS clusters. To use Azure Linux, you need to pass the `--os-sku=AzureLinux` option to the create command.  
 
 > [!NOTE]
 > While it's possible to enable LTS when the cluster is in Community support, you'll be charged once you enable the Premium tier.
@@ -70,7 +70,6 @@ See the following table for a list of add-ons and features that aren't supported
 | Keda | Unable to guarantee future version compatibility with Kubernetes 1.27 |
 | Calico  |  Requires Calico Enterprise agreement past Community support |
 | Cillium  |  Requires Cillium Enterprise agreement past Community support |
-| Azure Linux | Support timeframe for Azure Linux 2 ends during this LTS cycle |
 | Key Management Service (KMS) | KMSv2 replaces KMS during this LTS cycle |
 | Dapr | AKS extensions are not supported |
 | Application Gateway Ingress Controller | Migration to App Gateway for Containers happens during LTS period |

articles/aks/supported-kubernetes-versions.md

@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ Note the following important changes before you upgrade to any of the available
 | 1.26 | Azure policy 1.3.0<br>Metrics-Server 0.6.3<br>KEDA 2.10.1<br>Open Service Mesh 1.2.3<br>Core DNS V1.9.4<br>Overlay VPA 0.11.0<br>Azure-Keyvault-SecretsProvider 1.4.1<br>Application Gateway Ingress Controller (AGIC) 1.5.3<br>Image Cleaner v1.2.3<br>Azure Workload identity v1.0.0<br>MDC Defender 1.0.56<br>Azure Active Directory Pod Identity 1.8.13.6<br>GitOps 1.7.0<br>KMS 0.5.0<br>azurefile-csi-driver 1.26.10<br>| Cilium 1.12.8<br>CNI 1.4.44<br> Cluster Autoscaler 1.8.5.3<br> | OS Image Ubuntu 22.04 Cgroups V2 <br>ContainerD 1.7<br>Azure Linux 2.0<br>Cgroups V1<br>ContainerD 1.6<br>|azurefile-csi-driver 1.26.10 |None
 | 1.27 | Azure policy 1.3.0<br>azuredisk-csi driver v1.28.5<br>azurefile-csi driver v1.28.7<br>blob-csi v1.22.4<br>csi-attacher v4.3.0<br>csi-resizer v1.8.0<br>csi-snapshotter v6.2.2<br>snapshot-controller v6.2.2<br>Metrics-Server 0.6.3<br>Keda 2.11.2<br>Open Service Mesh 1.2.3<br>Core DNS V1.9.4<br>Overlay VPA 0.11.0<br>Azure-Keyvault-SecretsProvider 1.4.1<br>Application Gateway Ingress Controller (AGIC) 1.7.2<br>Image Cleaner v1.2.3<br>Azure Workload identity v1.0.0<br>MDC Defender 1.0.56<br>Azure Active Directory Pod Identity 1.8.13.6<br>GitOps 1.7.0<br>azurefile-csi-driver 1.28.7<br>KMS 0.5.0<br>CSI Secret store driver 1.3.4-1<br>|Cilium 1.13.10-1<br>CNI 1.4.44<br> Cluster Autoscaler 1.8.5.3<br> | OS Image Ubuntu 22.04 Cgroups V2 <br>ContainerD 1.7 for Linux and 1.6 for Windows<br>Azure Linux 2.0<br>Cgroups V1<br>ContainerD 1.6<br>|Keda 2.11.2<br>Cilium 1.13.10-1<br>azurefile-csi-driver 1.28.7<br>azuredisk-csi driver v1.28.5<br>blob-csi v1.22.4<br>csi-attacher v4.3.0<br>csi-resizer v1.8.0<br>csi-snapshotter v6.2.2<br>snapshot-controller v6.2.2|Because of Ubuntu 22.04 FIPS certification status, we'll switch AKS FIPS nodes from 18.04 to 20.04 from 1.27 onwards.
 | 1.28 | Azure policy 1.3.0<br>azurefile-csi-driver 1.29.2<br>csi-node-driver-registrar v2.9.0<br>csi-livenessprobe 2.11.0<br>azuredisk-csi-linux v1.29.2<br>azuredisk-csi-windows v1.29.2<br>csi-provisioner v3.6.2<br>csi-attacher v4.5.0<br>csi-resizer v1.9.3<br>csi-snapshotter v6.2.2<br>snapshot-controller v6.2.2<br>Metrics-Server 0.6.3<br>KEDA 2.11.2<br>Open Service Mesh 1.2.7<br>Core DNS V1.9.4<br>Overlay VPA 0.13.0<br>Azure-Keyvault-SecretsProvider 1.4.1<br>Application Gateway Ingress Controller (AGIC) 1.7.2<br>Image Cleaner v1.2.3<br>Azure Workload identity v1.2.0<br>MDC Defender Security Publisher 1.0.68<br>CSI Secret store driver 1.3.4-1<br>MDC Defender Old File Cleaner 1.3.68<br>MDC Defender Pod Collector 1.0.78<br>MDC Defender Low Level Collector 1.3.81<br>Azure Active Directory Pod Identity 1.8.13.6<br>GitOps 1.8.1|Cilium 1.13.10-1<br>CNI v1.4.43.1 (Default)/v1.5.11 (Azure CNI Overlay)<br> Cluster Autoscaler 1.27.3<br>Tigera-Operator 1.28.13| OS Image Ubuntu 22.04 Cgroups V2 <br>ContainerD 1.7.5 for Linux and 1.7.1 for Windows<br>Azure Linux 2.0<br>Cgroups V1<br>ContainerD 1.6<br>|azurefile-csi-driver 1.29.2<br>csi-resizer v1.9.3<br>csi-attacher v4.4.2<br>csi-provisioner v4.4.2<br>blob-csi v1.23.2<br>azurefile-csi driver v1.29.2<br>azuredisk-csi driver v1.29.2<br>csi-livenessprobe v2.11.0<br>csi-node-driver-registrar v2.9.0|None
-| 1.29 | Azure policy 1.3.0<br>csi-provisioner v4.0.0<br>csi-attacher v4.5.0<br>csi-snapshotter v6.3.3<br>snapshot-controller v6.3.3<br>Metrics-Server 0.6.3<br>KEDA 2.11.2<br>Open Service Mesh 1.2.7<br>Core DNS V1.9.4<br>Overlay VPA 0.13.0<br>Azure-Keyvault-SecretsProvider 1.4.1<br>Application Gateway Ingress Controller (AGIC) 1.7.2<br>Image Cleaner v1.2.3<br>Azure Workload identity v1.2.0<br>MDC Defender Security Publisher 1.0.68<br>MDC Defender Old File Cleaner 1.3.68<br>MDC Defender Pod Collector 1.0.78<br>MDC Defender Low Level Collector 1.3.81<br>Azure Active Directory Pod Identity 1.8.13.6<br>GitOps 1.8.1<br>CSI Secret store driver 1.3.4-1<br>azurefile-csi-driver 1.29.3<br>|Cilium 1.13.5<br>CNI v1.4.43.1 (Default)/v1.5.11 (Azure CNI Overlay)<br> Cluster Autoscaler 1.27.3<br>Tigera-Operator 1.30.7<br>| OS Image Ubuntu 22.04 Cgroups V2 <br>ContainerD 1.7.5 for Linux and 1.7.1 for Windows<br>Azure Linux 2.0<br>Cgroups V1<br>ContainerD 1.6<br>|Tigera-Operator 1.30.7<br>csi-provisioner v4.0.0<br>csi-attacher v4.5.0<br>csi-snapshotter v6.3.3<br>snapshot-controller v6.3.3 |None
+| 1.29 | Azure policy 1.3.0<br>csi-provisioner v4.0.0<br>csi-attacher v4.5.0<br>csi-snapshotter v6.3.3<br>snapshot-controller v6.3.3<br>Metrics-Server 0.6.3<br>KEDA 2.11.2<br>Open Service Mesh 1.2.7<br>Core DNS V1.9.4<br>Overlay VPA 0.13.0<br>Azure-Keyvault-SecretsProvider 1.4.1<br>Application Gateway Ingress Controller (AGIC) 1.7.2<br>Image Cleaner v1.2.3<br>Azure Workload identity v1.2.0<br>MDC Defender Security Publisher 1.0.68<br>MDC Defender Old File Cleaner 1.3.68<br>MDC Defender Pod Collector 1.0.78<br>MDC Defender Low Level Collector 1.3.81<br>Azure Active Directory Pod Identity 1.8.13.6<br>GitOps 1.8.1<br>CSI Secret store driver 1.3.4-1<br>azurefile-csi-driver 1.29.3<br>|Cilium 1.13.5<br>CNI v1.4.43.1 (Default)/v1.5.11 (Azure CNI Overlay)<br> Cluster Autoscaler 1.27.3<br>Tigera-Operator 1.30.7<br>| OS Image Ubuntu 22.04 Cgroups V2 <br>ContainerD 1.7.5 for Linux and 1.7.1 for Windows<br>Azure Linux 2.0<br>Cgroups V2<br>ContainerD 1.6<br>|Tigera-Operator 1.30.7<br>csi-provisioner v4.0.0<br>csi-attacher v4.5.0<br>csi-snapshotter v6.3.3<br>snapshot-controller v6.3.3 |None
 ## Alias minor version
 
 > [!NOTE]