General availability: Application Gateway for Containers
Published date: February 27, 2024
Application Gateway for Containers is now generally available.
Application Gateway for Containers is the next evolution of Application Gateway + Application Gateway Ingress Controller, providing application (layer 7) load balancing and dynamic traffic management capabilities for workloads running in a Kubernetes cluster. Azure Gateway for Containers achieves near-to-real-time convergence times to reflect add/remove of pods, routes, probes, and other load balancing configuration within Kubernetes yaml configuration.
In addition to the numerous improvements announced at public preview, general availability brings several new additions:
- Features - Public preview and GA has added support for Custom Health Probes, URL Redirect, URL / Header Rewrite.
- Controller High Availability – Have peace of mind if a node goes down, changes within your cluster will continue to be propagated to the network.
- Gateway API v1 – Bring the familiarity and role based access control provided by Gateway API to your network configuration.
- Additional Region Availability – Take advantage of AGC in a region closest to you.
- SLA for Production Workloads – Feel confident in running your production workloads with Application Gateway for Containers.