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General availability: Application Gateway for Containers

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Application Gateway for Containers is now generally available. Application Gateway for Containers is the next evolution of Application Gateway + Application Gateway Ingress Controller, providing application (layer 7) load balancing and dynamic traffic management capabilities for workloads running in a Kubernetes cluster. Application Gateway for Containers achieves near-to-real-time convergence times to reflect add/remove of pods, routes, probes, and other load balancing configuration within Kubernetes yaml configuration. In addition to the numerous improvements announced at [public preview](https://azure.microsoft.com/updates/public-preview-application-gateway-for-containers/), general availability brings several new additions: 1. **Features** \- Public preview and GA has added support for Custom Health Probes, URL Redirect, URL / Header Rewrite. 2. **Controller High Availability** – Have peace of mind if a node goes down, changes within your cluster will continue to be propagated to the network. 3. **Gateway API v1** – Bring the familiarity and role based access control provided by Gateway API to your network configuration. 4. **Additional Region Availability** – Take advantage of Application Gateway for Containers in a region closest to you. 5. **SLA for Production Workloads** – Feel confident in running your production workloads with Application Gateway for Containers. [Learn more about Application Gateway for Containers](https://aka.ms/appgwcontainers/docs). * Application Gateway for Containers * Application Gateway * Features * [ Application Gateway](https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/products/application-gateway/)