Generally Available: Workload identity support for Azure Files CSI driver (SMB) in Azure
Microsoft announced general availability of this Azure Files and Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) update in August 2026.
Launched1 version
Facts
- Microsoft id
570120- Status
- Launched
- Products
- Azure Files, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
- Update type
- Features, Security
- Product categories
- Compute, Containers, Storage
- General availability
- August 2026
- Status pages
- Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) status
- First captured by us
- (from our first import of this list)
- Microsoft last modified
- Source
- Azure Updates · open the original at Microsoft
Microsoft says
The Azure Files Container Storage Interface (CSI) driver in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) now supports workload identity for pod-level authentication to SMB file shares.
What Microsoft changed
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First version we captured ·
As first seen: Launched
- Status
- Launched
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