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About AKS desktop

Kubernetes workflows often require writing and maintaining YAML, switching between tools (kubectl, dashboards, monitoring), and an understanding of low-level infrastructure concepts. AKS desktop simplifies this process using Projects, which group everything your application needs into a single, manageable unit, and provides guided workflows for deploying, monitoring, scaling, and troubleshooting applications. AKS desktop works within your existing environment and tools, including Visual Studio Code, GitHub, and CI/...

What's new in 0.43.0

AKS Desktop v0.9.0 improves multi-tenant Azure support, upgrades the AI Assistant preview, introduces privacy-conscious usage telemetry controls, and moves the underlying Headlamp experience to version 0.43. ✨ Highlights Multi-tenant AKS cluster registration AKS Desktop now supports selecting an Azure tenant before selecting a subscription when registering an AKS cluster. - Subscriptions are filtered to the selected tenant, making it easier to find clusters across multi-tenant Azure environments. - When all available subscriptions belong to one tenant, that tenant is selected automatically. - Changing the tenant resets the subscription and cluster selections to prevent mismatched registrations. - Tenant information is obtained from the existing subscription lookup, so this does not add another Azure CLI request. Added in #733. AI Assistant 0.3.0-alpha (Preview) The AI Assistant preview has been upgraded to the shared Headlamp AI Assistant 0.3.0-alpha implementation, bringing a more extensible foundation for Kubernetes troubleshooting and natural-language cluster management. - Adds Holmes Agent mode, allowing AKS Desktop to connect to a HolmesGPT agent running in a cluster for enhanced Kubernetes diagnostics. - Adds desktop support for Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers, including configuration through a form or JSON editor, automatic tool discovery, per-tool enablement, input schema visibility, usage statistics, and bulk enable or disable actions. - Expands model provider support with DeepSeek and OpenAI-compatible endpoints, alongside OpenAI, Azure OpenAI, Anthropic, Mis...

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