How to create alert in azure (email notification ) before aks version about to expire ?

Question

We are looking to get email notification or kind of alerting as soon as our present aks version is about to move to unsuppported patch version or minor version or both. This help us to take decision on time and plan upgrade. But till now we are not getting notification email or so but can only come to know from this window

Is there any way we can setup alert on this aks version unsupported version in advance or so ?

Answer 1

Hi @ANKUR JAIN

Thanks for reaching out to Microsoft Q & A Platforms .

Unfortunately , I don't think there is a way to configure such alert as of today and this will be a new feature request which we will drive and accomplish soon .

But the out of support notifications can directly go to subscription admins and not all the users managing Clusters who are not Subscription Admins : https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/aks/supported-kubernetes-versions?tabs=azure-cli#faq

In the meanwhile or alternatively you can configure cluster auto upgrade with in planned maintenance windows: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/aks/upgrade-cluster#using-cluster-auto-upgrade-with-planned-maintenance

Also monitor :https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/aks/supported-kubernetes-versions?tabs=azure-cli for newer version availability .

Please do let me know if this answer is helpful and is accepted .

Thanks & Regards,
Pradeep

Answer 2

AKS uses Azure Advisor to alert users if a new version will cause issues in their cluster because of deprecated APIs. Azure Advisor is also used to alert the user if they are currently out of support.

AKS publishes a service health notification available to all users with AKS and portal access, and sends an email to the subscription administrators with the planned version removal dates.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/service-health/service-health-overview