Retirement: GPU image (Preview) in AKS

On January 10, 2025, the AKS GPU Image (preview) retired. New node pool creations with the GPU image (preview) are now blocked. Existing node pools using the GPU Image (preview) are now unsupported. Follow the detailed steps in our documentation create GPU-enabled node pools using the alternative supported options on AKS.  

Required Action
Migrate your existing AKS workloads from GPU VHD-enabled node pools to GPU-enabled node pools created using the supported alternative solutions.
Alternative solutions include: 

1. Create a node pool with a supported GPU VM sku and manually install the NVIDIA device plugin. 
2. Create a node pool with a supported GPU VM sku, skip automatic driver installation, and manually install the NVIDA GPU Operator. 

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