Azure Application Gateway
Azure Application Gateway serves as a web traffic load balancer, facilitating the management of traffic directed toward your web applications. Unlike traditional load balancers, which function at the transport layer (OSI layer 4 – TCP and UDP) and direct traffic based on the source IP address and port to a destination IP address and port, Application Gateway has additional capabilities.
It can make routing determinations based on other aspects of an HTTP request, such as the URI path or host headers. For instance, it can direct traffic based on the incoming URL. If an incoming URL request matches a particular pattern, the traffic can be channeled to a dedicated pool of servers expressly set up for serving that kind of content.
Application Gateway includes the following features:
- SSL/TLS termination: This typically leads to unencrypted traffic flowing to the backend servers, thus relieving web servers from the burdensome task of encryption...
