Issues

• Consider marking a particular VM family unavailable after "enough" repeated allocation failures

  Azure/karpenter-provider-azure#2008 · Filter by author matthchr opened on Oct 16, 2026
  

• Add support for Bring your own License for Windows

  Azure/karpenter-provider-azure#2006 · Filter by author matthchr opened on Oct 15, 2026
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• Pricing for Windows nodes is not considered correctly

  Azure/karpenter-provider-azure#2004 · Filter by author matthchr opened on Oct 15, 2026
  

• Configure graceful termination for Spot repair policy when upgrading to Karpenter 1.15

  Azure/karpenter-provider-azure#2003 · Filter by author matthchr opened on Oct 14, 2026
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• View NAP image version in AKS Releaser tracker

  node-auto-provisioning
  Feature

  Azure/karpenter-provider-azure#1965 · Filter by author wdarko1 opened on Oct 6, 2026
  

• Flow placement ID where it needs to go

  Azure/karpenter-provider-azure#1913 · Filter by author matthchr opened on Sep 16, 2026
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• Karpenter deletes VM that finished provisioning asynchronously after an initial "Create VM" API failure, orphaning the Node object

  Azure/karpenter-provider-azure#1907 · Filter by author miparnisari opened on Sep 14, 2026

• Karpenter prioritizes Reserved Instances

  node-auto-provisioning
  Feature

  Azure/karpenter-provider-azure#1902 · Filter by author wdarko1 opened on Sep 10, 2026

• Close Azure Retail Prices response bodies and honor request cancellation

  area/performancearea/pricingkind/bug
  Azure/karpenter-provider-azure#1861 · Filter by author theunrepentantgeek opened on Aug 23, 2026
  

• Release canceled requests from AKS Machine header batches

  area/performancearea/provisioningkind/bug
  Azure/karpenter-provider-azure#1862 · Filter by author theunrepentantgeek opened on Aug 23, 2026
  

• Propagate cancellation through Community Image Gallery pagination

  area/performancearea/provisioningkind/bug
  Azure/karpenter-provider-azure#1859 · Filter by author theunrepentantgeek opened on Aug 23, 2026
  

• Bound asynchronous instance promise polling and retained goroutines

  area/performancearea/provisioningkind/bug
  Azure/karpenter-provider-azure#1860 · Filter by author theunrepentantgeek opened on Aug 23, 2026
  

• Static NodePools churn NodeClaims when all compatible offerings are unavailable

  Azure/karpenter-provider-azure#1854 · Filter by author matthchr opened on Aug 20, 2026
  

• Remove unusable legacy ND112/ND120 A100 GPU SKUs

  Azure/karpenter-provider-azure#1852 · Filter by author MaximilianoUribe opened on Aug 20, 2026

• instancetype: UpdateInstanceTypes drops known SKUs on a partial resourceSKUs response, causing spurious NodeClaim drift

  Azure/karpenter-provider-azure#1838 · Filter by author Harshithraj24 opened on Aug 12, 2026
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• Karpenter NodePools/NodeClaims will block usage of AKS reserved taints in an upcoming release

  Azure/karpenter-provider-azure#1830 · Filter by author matthchr opened on Aug 5, 2026
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• Karpenter fully manages system nodes

  Feature

  Azure/karpenter-provider-azure#1822 · Filter by author wdarko1 opened on Jul 30, 2026
  

• Karpenter follows the cluster-level FIPS setting

  node-auto-provisioning
  Feature

  Azure/karpenter-provider-azure#1819 · Filter by author wdarko1 opened on Jul 28, 2026

• Support for expanded custom kubelet configuration

  Feature

  Azure/karpenter-provider-azure#1803 · Filter by author wdarko1 opened on Jul 20, 2026
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• Improve handling for NodeClaims stuck in initializing due to missing resource

  Azure/karpenter-provider-azure#1790 · Filter by author matthchr opened on Jul 15, 2026
  

• Karpenter supports Spot Plus VMs

  node-auto-provisioning
  Feature

  Azure/karpenter-provider-azure#1770 · Filter by author wdarko1 opened on Jul 7, 2026

• Need for a stable cross subscription zone-id label

  Azure/karpenter-provider-azure#1753 · Filter by author andrewegel opened on Jun 26, 2026

• Karpenter NodePools/NodeClaims will block usage of AKS reserved labels in an upcoming release

  Azure/karpenter-provider-azure#1707 · Filter by author matthchr opened on Jun 4, 2026
  

• Karpenter supports Prepared Image Spec

  node-auto-provisioning
  Feature

  Azure/karpenter-provider-azure#1677 · Filter by author wdarko1 opened on May 8, 2026
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• Support setting Network access settings on Karpenter managed disks

  Azure/karpenter-provider-azure#1671 · Filter by author jonasz-lasut opened on May 7, 2026