Article09/24/2024In this articleThe Kubernetes community releases a new minor version approximately every four months, with a support window for each version for one year. In Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), this support window is called community support.AKS supports versions of Kubernetes that are within this community support window to push bug fixes and security updates from community releases. While the community support release cadence provides benefits, it requires that you keep up to date with Kubernetes releases, which can be difficult depending on your application's dependencies and the pace of change in the Kubernetes ecosystem.To help you manage your Kubernetes version upgrades, AKS provides a long-term support (LTS) option, which extends the support window for a Kubernetes version to give you more time to plan and test upgrades to newer Kubernetes versions.AKS support typesAfter approximately one year, a given Kubernetes minor version exits community support, making bug fix...
