Public Preview: Azure Bastion now supports connectivity to private AKS clusters via tunneling

Microsoft announced a preview of this Azure Bastion and Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) update in August 2025.

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Microsoft id
500996
Status
In preview
Products
Azure Bastion, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
Update type
Features, Security
Product categories
Compute, Containers, Networking, Security
Preview
August 2025
Status pages
Azure Bastion status, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) status
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Source
Azure Updates · open the original at Microsoft

Microsoft says

With this release, you can now establish a secure tunnel from your local machine—via Azure Bastion—directly to your AKS API server using your standard Kubernetes…

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