## Provision New AKS v1.27 Clusters using Rafay

Azure recently added support for [Kubernetes v1.27](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/aks/supported-kubernetes-versions?tabs=azure-cli#aks-kubernetes-release-calendar) for AKS clusters. Customers can now use Rafay to provision new AKS clusters based on Kubernetes v1.27 as well.

This version of AKS was Generally Available (GA) starting **July 2023** and go end of life in **July 2024** i.e. with a 12 month support runway.

Note

Customers have shared with us that they would like to provision **new** AKS clusters based on **new** Kubernetes versions so that they do not have to plan/schedule for Kubernetes upgrades for these clusters **right away**. For the last few releases, we have introduced support for **new cluster provisioning** for the new Kubernetes version first and then follow up with support for **zero touch in-place upgrades**.