Azure Application Gateway

What do you like best?

The gateway works as expected once appropriately configured. The tool is a native of the Azure platform so works well with other services and no issues were encountered while configuration or after deployment. Another benefit is that you can automate its deployment once you know the entire configuration.

What do you dislike?

The documentation is a little bit incomplete and confusing. The terminologies are also somewhat confusing for complete newbies. The major drawback is that you require all the information beforehand before configuring the Gateway otherwise you'll have to go round and round configuring it again and again. The automated deployment template gives off some issues and needs fixing sometimes. Also, the deployment time is also quite long and needs some improvement. The gateway documentation is complete but very tedious to browse through. This could be improved as this causes delays when we need to quickly deploy something and some error is encountered.

Recommendations to others considering the product:

Since this is the only native option offered, we are stuck using it but read the documentation thoroughly first, and then it will be less cumbersome. The Azure Application Gateway is quite powerful but needs some work which I have no doubt the Microsoft Azure team is already taking care of so hopefully, it will be easier to use in the future.

What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?

We deploy multiple workloads using the application gateway and host a SaaS application on Azure which incorporates the Azure Application Gateway in its pipeline. The main benefit is that it is a native service, so it integrates well with other components, and once you get familiarized with the tool, it is pretty simple to configure and use if you have all the required details handy. The deployment has the added benefit of being automated and this can benefit multiple workloads which needs to be deployed. The gateway documentation is complete but very tedious to browse through.