5 posts tagged with "App Routing"

A few weeks ago at Microsoft Build, the public preview of Anyscale on Azure was announced. If you're not familiar, Anyscale on Azure is a managed platform for running distributed AI/ML workloads with Ray on AKS. It's an Azure Native integration, a co-engineered effort between Anyscale and Microsoft, that deploys an operator onto your AKS cluster and integrates with Microsoft Entra ID for single sign-on (SSO).

The official quickstart walks you through deploying Anyscale on Azure using the Azure CLI and Azure Portal with Envoy Gateway for ingress. That's a solid starting point, but if you're like me, you want everything in Terraform so your infrastructure is repeatable, version-controlled, and easy to tear down.

In this post, we'll walk through a Terraform configuration that deploys the full Anyscale on Azure stack, swapping out Envoy Gateway for AKS managed Gateway API with Istio-based app routing. With this approach, AKS handles the gateway lifecycle and you skip the step of installing and configuring Envoy Gateway entirely.

The AKS App Routing add-on's Kubernetes Gateway API implementation — approuting-istio — is generally available. Together with that, the Managed Gateway API installation for AKS is also GA, so the CRDs, the controller stack, and the gateway data plane you need to run Gateway API on AKS are all now first-class, supported features.

We're announcing preview support for the Kubernetes Gateway API in the AKS application routing add-on. This brings a modern, role-oriented traffic management model to AKS — and establishes a clear migration path ahead of the upcoming Ingress-NGINX retirement.

The Kubernetes SIG Network and the Security Response Committee have announced the upcoming retirement of the Ingress NGINX project, with maintenance ending in March 2026.

When running globally distributed public applications in Kubernetes, having access to a global traffic management solution is critical to ensuring high availability and security at the edge. Fortunately, Azure Front Door provides an easy-to-use global traffic routing capability, with integrated Content Delivery Network and Web Application Firewall.