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2026 (3)

March (2)

azure: [In preview] Public Preview: Application routing with meshless Istio in AKS

Azure Updates

2026-03-24

Azure AKS preview introduces Application Routing with meshless Istio as a supported ingress migration path after ingress-nginx deprecation, without requiring a full service mesh. It is positioned around Kubernetes Gateway API support and Istio-based routing.

k8s: Announcing Ingress2Gateway 1.0: Your Path to Gateway API

Kubernetes Official Blog

2026-03-20

Ingress2Gateway 1.0 is a stable migration assistant for moving from Ingress to Gateway API, with expanded Ingress-NGINX annotation support and more detailed warnings for unsupported or lossy translations. The release emphasizes controller-level integration tests and safer migration workflows, including manual review, validation in a dev cluster, and gradual traffic shifting.

February (1)

azure: Retirement: Managed NGINX Ingress with Application Routing Add-on Retiring November 2026

Azure Updates

2026-02-27

Microsoft will retire the Managed NGINX Ingress used by the AKS Application Routing add-on in November 2026 due to the upstream Ingress-NGINX project deprecating and ending updates after March 2026. Microsoft will provide only critical security patches until 30 Nov 2026, after which the controller is unsupported.

2025 (2)

November (2)

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Premium Ingress in Azure Container Apps

Azure Updates

2025-11-18

Azure Container Apps' Premium Ingress is now generally available, introducing environment-level ingress configuration and customizable ingress scaling to provide more control over how the platform handles incoming traffic.

azure: [In preview] Public Preview: Application Gateway for Containers Istio Service Mesh integration

Azure Updates

2025-11-18

Application Gateway for Containers is in public preview for integration with the Istio service mesh via an optional service mesh extension, enabling simplified secure north–south communication between external clients and services inside the mesh.