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In Azure/AzureContainers: Interface to 'Container Instances', 'Docker Registry' and 'Kubernetes' in 'Azure'

AzureContainers 1.3.3

• Updated web links for CRAN

AzureContainers 1.3.2

• Add a secure_env_vars argument to the create_aci() method, to set secure environment variables in the instance. The values of these variables are not visible in the container's properties, eg when viewed in the Azure portal or via the CLI.
• Fix a bug in setting the environment variables for ACI (#16).

AzureContainers 1.3.1

• Change maintainer email address.

AzureContainers 1.3.0

• Significant enhancements for AKS:
• Fully support creating clusters with managed identities. This is recommended and the new default, compared to the older method of using service principals to control cluster resources.
• Support creating clusters using VM scalesets for the cluster nodes. This is recommended and the new default, compared to using individual VMs.
• Support private clusters.
• Support node autoscaling for agent pools backed by VM scalesets.
• Support spot (low-priority) nodes for agent pools backed by VM scalesets.
• New methods for the az_kubernetes_service class, for managing agent pools: get_agent_pool, create_agent_pool, delete_agent_pool and list_agent_pools. Creating new agent pools requires VM scalesets, as mentioned above.
• New agent_pool function to supply the parameters for a single AKS agent pool.
• The functions to call external tools (call_docker, call_docker_compose, call_kubernetes and call_helm) now use the value of the system option azure_containers_tool_echo to determine whether to echo output to the screen. If this is unset, the fallback is TRUE (as in previous versions).
• Remove MMLS vignette; version 9.3.0 is now very old.
• New vignettes on securing an ACI deployment with RestRserve, and deploying a secured service on AKS with Traefik/Let's Encrypt.
• The utility functions call_docker, call_docker_compose, call_kubectl and call_helm now accept a vector of individual commandline options as the first argument, which is the format expected by processx::run. You can still provide the full commandline as a single string but this is discouraged, as it will likely fail for things like paths containing spaces.

AzureContainers 1.2.1

• Fix a bug where call_docker_compose could be checking for the wrong binary.

AzureContainers 1.2.0

• New call_docker_compose function for calling docker-compose.
• Add delay in loop to wait for service principal during AKS resource creation; could timeout prematurely otherwise.
• KubernetesCluster$create(), apply(), etc now accept HTTP[S] URLs as well as filenames as arguments.
• Use the processx package to run external commands, rather than base::system2(). A major benefit of this change is that command output is automatically captured and returned as an R object, making it easier to write automated scripts.
• The commandline is now a list component of the R object, rather than an attribute.
• The various DockerRegistry and KubernetesCluster methods for calling docker, kubectl and helm now have ... as an argument, allowing you to pass extra inputs to these commands as needed.
• Add list_cluster_resources() method for the AKS resource class, which returns a list of all the Azure resources managed by the cluster.

AzureContainers 1.1.2

• The aks$update_aad_password() and aks$update_service_password() methods now use the new Graph API calls for managing app passwords. The arguments to both these methods are name (an optional friendly name for the password) and duration. As a security measure, passwords can no longer be manually specified; instead all passwords are now auto-generated on the server with a cryptographically secure PRNG.

AzureContainers 1.1.1

• Enable creating ACI and AKS instances with assigned managed identities. Note that this is still in preview for AKS; see the Microsoft Docs page for enabling this feature.

AzureContainers 1.1.0

• Make docker_registry and kubernetes_cluster into constructor functions rather than R6 classes, for consistency with other AzureR packages. The corresponding class objects are now DockerRegistry and KubernetesCluster.
• Enable AAD authentication for ACR. By default, instantiating a new docker registry object will authenticate using the AAD credentials of the currently signed-in user. Alternative authentication details can be supplied to docker_registry, which will be passed to AzureAuth::get_azure_token. See the help for docker_registry for more information.
• Enable authenticating with service principals to ACR from ACI and AKS.
• By default, create new container instances with a managed service identity.
• Add aks$update_aad_password() method to reset/update the password for AAD integration.
• Add custom acr$add_role_assignment() method that recognises AKS objects.

AzureContainers 1.0.3

• Add aks$update_service_password() method to reset/update the service principal credentials.
• Send the docker password via stdin, rather than on the commandline.
• Not released to CRAN (superseded by 1.1.0 above).

AzureContainers 1.0.2

• Ensure dir for Kubernetes config file exists before writing the file.
• Add wait argument to create_aci and create_aks methods; rely on AzureRMR 2.0 for implementation.
• By default, create a new service principal when creating a new AKS resource; this relies on the AzureGraph package.
• Fix bug in aci$start() method.
• By default, save the config file for an AKS cluster in the AzureR directory to allow reuse without going through Resource Manager.

AzureContainers 1.0.1

• Change aks$get_cluster() method to use a non-deprecated API call.
• Allow resource group and subscription accessor methods to work even if AzureContainers is not on the search path.
• Allow for different AAD token implementations, either from httr or AzureAuth.

AzureContainers 1.0.0

• Submitted to CRAN

AzureContainers 0.9.0

• Moved to cloudyr organisation

Azure/AzureContainers documentation built on June 15, 2025, 4:12 a.m.