AZ525874 - Public Preview: Application Gateway for Containers Istio Service Mesh integration

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Published

Nov 18, 2025

Status

In preview

Timeline

  • November 2025
    Preview

Product

Application Gateway
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

Tag

Microsoft Ignite
Features
Services

Category

Networking
Security
Compute
Containers

Description

Application Gateway for Containers now supports integration with Istio service mesh through an optional service mesh extension. This feature simplifies secure north-south communication between external clients and services within the service mesh. 

  • Single solution: Load balance traffic to services both inside and outside the mesh through one ingress gateway.  
  • Reduced operational overhead: Eliminate configuration bloat by automating repetitive mutual authentication definitions.  
  • Certificate trust and rotation: Managed certificate trust and rotation to maintain secure authentication with the service mesh.  

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