Azure Application Gateway for Containers - General Availability

Exploring General Availability of Application Gateway for Containers; the evolution to Application Gateway Ingress Controller (AGIC).
Application Gateway for Containers is a new application (layer 7) load balancing and dynamic traffic management product for workloads running in a Kubernetes cluster. It extends Azure's Application Load Balancing portfolio and is a new offering under the Application Gateway product family.
Application Gateway for Containers is the evolution of the Application Gateway Ingress Controller (AGIC), a Kubernetes application that enables Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) customers to use Azure's native Application Gateway application load-balancer. 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).
More information here: learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azu...
Gateway API: gateway-api.sigs.k8s.io/
Speakers:
- Jack Stromberg - Product Manager at Microsoft / jackstromberg
- Jorge Arteiro - Cloud Advocate for Cloud Native at Microsoft / jorgearteiro
- Santhosh (Santhoshkumar) Anandakrishnan - Cloud Solution Architect | Azure MVP / santhoshkumar-anandakr...

[@jmp601]

Perfect! Now let's see it in US gov cloud!

[@theakscommunity]

It's not supported in Gov Cloud today,, but it is in our plans. No ETA at this time, but we will be sure to share when we know more

[@fzavalloni]

Nice to see an evolution. In our company we tried to use the Application Gateway Ingress controller however we need to create more than 100 ingresses what is not possible in the Application Gateway.
I am eager to test it.

[@theakscommunity]

Sounds good. Please let us know how it goes.

[@LawrenceWebber-kl1vq]

Would be keen to use the App Gateway for Containers but the lack of WAF integration is a dealbreaker for us at the moment. Do you have an idea of when this will be added?

[@theakscommunity]

This is in the works. I don't have any details on timing, but we will share on this channel as soon as we have a good idea

[@shanepowser]

Already have feature requests in for it but....need options to take AGC private. Traffic through Front Door to AGC via Private Link Services. Please and thank you :)

[@theakscommunity]

Private front-ends are on our roadmap. We can't provide an ETA at this time

[@jeevajilife]

Is there any supporting evidence that AGC is performant over other solution?

[@theakscommunity]

Thanks for the question. AGC has been completely redesigned from the ground up to improve the performance of both the data plane and control plane. The video demonstrates the performance improvements for the control plane. A quick performance test against the frontend will yield improved results for the data plane as well.
Please let us know how us that performing for you.