Azure Batch Certificates are retiring on February 29th, 2024

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Azure Batch Certificates are retiring on February 29th, 2024

Deprecation ID: 5e784700-0128-4b07-8865-4b73ff2d8a1a
Deadline: Feb 29, 2024
Impacted Services:

• Azure Batch

More information:

• Announcement
• Migration Guide

Notice

Here's the official report from Microsoft:

As part of our efforts to modernize Batch to use the latest standard and secure Azure technologies and to improve composability with other offerings in the Azure ecosystem, we’ll retire Batch Certificates on 29 February 2024. Please transition to Azure Key Vault as soon as possible to more quickly realize the security and composability benefits.

Timeline

Phase	Date	Description
Announcement	Oct 07, 2022	Deprecation was announced
Deprecation	Feb 29, 2024	Functionality may cease to work properly and requests to create and/or resize pools with certificates will be rejected.

Impact

Azure Batch Certificates are retiring on February 29th, 2024 and migration to Azure Key Vault is required.

Required Action

A migration guide is provided here.

Here's the official report from Microsoft:

Follow these steps to transition using Azure Key Vault before 29 February 2024. After that, the Certificate functionality may cease to work properly and requests to create and/or resize pools with certificates will be rejected.

Contact

You can get in touch through the following options:

• Contact Azure support (link).
• Get answers from Microsoft Q&A (link).

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