What is Application Gateway for Containers & how to use it?

Application Gateway for Containers is the evolution of Application Gateway Ingress Controller.

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Published onJuly 26, 2023

published onJuly 26, 2023

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Recently, Azure Active Directory changed its name to Microsoft Entra ID. This change doesn’t really change anything when it comes to the services Azure provided,but a lot of users were not particularly happy about it either.

While the core services and overall experience of working on Entra are the same, there are also some new features coming. For example, Microsoft announcedApplication Gateway for Containerson the Azure platform, available to use starting week.

According to Microsoft, Application Gateway for Containers is the evolution of theApplication Gateway Ingress Controller(AGIC), aKubernetesapplication that enables Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) customers to use Azure’s native Application Gateway application load-balancer.

Microsoft also says that in its current form, AGIC monitors a subset of Kubernetes Resources for changes and applies them to the Application Gateway, utilizing Azure Resource Manager (ARM).

We are announcing Azure Application Gateway for Containers as a new SKU to the Application Gateway family. Application Gateway for Containers is the next evolution of Application Gateway + Application Gateway Ingress Controller (AGIC), providing application (layer 7) load balancing and dynamic traffic management capabilities for workloads running in a Kubernetes cluster.

Application Gateway for Containers – benefits and ways to use it

Application Gateway for Containersimproves uponApplication Gateway Ingress Controllerin the following sections:

Application Gateway for Containers is made up of three components: Application Gateway for Containers, Frontends and Associations. When you want to initiate a deployment, these dependencies will be referenced: Private IP address, Subnet Delegation, and a User-asigned Managed Identity. You can see how it works in the picture below.

There are two strategies of deployment within Application Gateway for Containers, according to Microsoft.

For now, Application Gateway for Containers is currently offered in the following regions:

Are you excited about this new Azure product? Let us know in the comments section below.

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What is Application Gateway for Containers & how to use it?

Application Gateway for Containers – benefits and ways to use it