Generally Available: gRPC and frontend mTLS now available for Application Gateway for Containers

Application Gateway for Containers is introducing support for gRPC and frontend mutual authentication (mTLS).

Frontend mutual authentication (mTLS) brings feature parity to Application Gateway for Containers, for customers using Application Gateway Ingress Controller. This enhancement increases security by ensuring only specific clients are authenticated before their requests are proxied to a backend service. Combined with the previously released backend mutual authentication, this update unlocks end-to-end mutual authentication.

Additionally, Application Gateway for Containers now supports gRPC. With gRPC, four new communication methods between the client and Application Gateway for Containers are enabled: unary, client streaming, server streaming, and bidirectional streaming capabilities.

Learn more about frontend mutual authentication.

Learn more about gRPC.