Azure Container Apps

Retirement: Functions on Azure Container Apps V1

The Functions on Azure Container Apps (ACA) V1 will be retired on September 29, 2027. After this date, existing Functions on ACA V1 Apps will stop running and no longer process requests or event-driven triggers.

Generally Available: Azure Developer CLI (azd) Extension Framework

The Azure Developer CLI (azd) Extension Framework is now generally available. The framework enables developers, teams, and partners to extend Azure Developer CLI with custom capabilities that support their preferred application development workflows.

Generally Available: Microsoft Defender for Cloud support for Azure Container Apps (Serverless Containers Posture)

Customers can now bring Azure Container Apps environments into Microsoft Defender for Cloud’s Serverless Containers Posture experience, helping security teams extend posture management across more of their container estate from a single workflow.

Generally Available: Azure Container Apps Sandboxes

Teams building agentic applications, multi-tenant platforms, development environments, and CI/CD systems have often had to stitch together custom infrastructure to run untrusted code safely, preserve state across sessions, and handle bursty demand without paying for idle…

Generally Available: Override Scale Rules in Azure Functions on Azure Container Apps

Azure Functions on Container Apps has traditionally used platform-managed scaling, where triggers are automatically translated into KEDA scale rules.

Generally Available: Additional support for OpenTelemetry destinations (New Relic, Dynatrace, Elastic)

Azure Container Apps enhances its OpenTelemetry (OTel) capabilities by expanding support for third-party observability platforms.

Generally Available: Monitor HTTP traffic in Azure Container Apps

In addition to platform-level logs, Azure Container Apps now adds a dedicated Azure Monitor diagnostic setting category, ContainerAppHTTPLogs, that exposes detailed HTTP access logs for incoming traffic and is designed for high-volume request data.

Generally Available: Confidential Compute support on Azure Container Apps

Customers running regulated or sensitive containerized workloads often need stronger protection for data while it is actively being processed, especially in scenarios that require higher isolation and stricter compliance controls.

Public Preview: Microsoft Defender for Cloud support for Azure Container Apps (Serverless Containers Posture)

Customers can now bring Azure Container Apps environments into Microsoft Defender for Cloud’s S erverless Containers Posture experience, helping security teams extend posture management across more of their container estate from a single workflow.

Generally Available: Azure Container Apps Express

Azure Container Apps Express is now generally available. It is the simplest and fastest way to launch and scale powerful applications on Azure, from zero to hyperscale, without infrastructure decisions.

Public Preview: Azure Command Launcher for Java

At Microsoft Ignite 2025, we announced the Public Preview of the Azure Command Launcher for Java, a new JVM launcher optimized specifically for Azure.