Feature status: GA since v1.21. Kubernetes v1.21 adds support for cross resource group (RG) nodes and unmanaged (such as on-prem) nodes in Azure cloud provider. A few assumptions are made for such nodes: Cross-RG nodes are in same region and set with required labels (as clarified in the following part) Nodes will not be part of the load balancer managed by cloud provider Both node and container networking should be configured properly by provisioning tools AzureDisk is supported for Azure cro...