Application Gateway for Containers

azure Load balancerazure-application-gateway-for-containers

Managed layer 7 ingress for AKS whose data plane Azure operates outside the cluster.

Provider: azure
Kind: Load balancer
Category: Edge
Official docs: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/application-gateway/for-containers/overview

Properties · 3 set by this component

property	type	values	required	kind default	this component
configurationApi · component property	enum	ingress \| gateway-api	no	—	inherited
connectionPreserving · advanced	boolean	—	no	false	inherited
deploymentStrategy · component property	enum	bring-your-own \| alb-controller-managed	no	—	inherited
global	boolean	—	no	false	inherited
hashing	enum	round-robin \| least-connections \| ecmp \| maglev \| consistent \| random	no	round-robin	inherited
healthChecks	boolean	—	no	true	▸ true
instances	integer	—	no	—	inherited
layer	enum	l4 \| l7	no	l7	▸ l7
managed	boolean	—	no	false	▸ true
mutualAuthentication · component property	boolean	—	no	—	inherited
wafEnabled · component property	boolean	—	no	—	inherited

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Source

1# yaml-language-server: $schema=../../schema/component.schema.json
2# Application Gateway for Containers: a managed layer 7 load balancing and ingress service for AKS workloads
3# whose data plane Azure operates outside the cluster ("What is Application Gateway for Containers?"). That
4# page states it routes HTTP, HTTPS, gRPC and inference traffic, lists custom and default health probes among
5# its supported features, and describes two deployment strategies (bring your own resources, or lifecycle
6# managed by ALB Controller) and two configuration surfaces (Ingress and the Gateway API).
7schemaVersion: "1"
8type: "component"
9id: "azure-application-gateway-for-containers"
10kind: "load-balancer"
11provider: "azure"
12docs: "https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/application-gateway/for-containers/overview"
13defaults:
14  managed: true
15  layer: "l7"
16  healthChecks: true
17properties:
18  deploymentStrategy:
19    type: "enum"
20    values: ["bring-your-own", "alb-controller-managed"]
21  configurationApi:
22    type: "enum"
23    values: ["ingress", "gateway-api"]
24  wafEnabled:
25    type: "boolean"
26  mutualAuthentication:
27    type: "boolean"

The same page as markdown, for an agent: /catalogue/components/azure-application-gateway-for-containers.md