Turn Your Regional AKS Ingress into a Global SaaS Entry Point

In the previous tutorial, we deployed: 🧱 Azure Kubernetes Service 🛡 Azure Application Gateway (WAF_v2) 🔁 AGIC (Application Gateway Ingress Controller) 🌐 Exposed nginx via Kubernetes Ingress That architecture looked like this: User → Application Gateway → AKS → Pods This works great for regional workloads . But what if you want: 🌎 Global routing ⚡ Latency optimization 🔁 Automatic regional failover 🛡 Edge TLS termination 🌐 SaaS-grade architecture That’s where Azure Front Door comes in. 🏗 Target Architecture We are extending the previous lab into this: Global Users ↓ Azure Front Door (Global Edge) ↓ Application Gateway (Regional WAF) ↓ AKS (via AGIC) ↓ Pods Now: Front Door handles global entry App Gateway handles regional WAF AGIC dynamically manages routing to Kubernetes services This is a production SaaS pattern . 🚀 Step 1 — Assumptions You already completed the AGIC lab and have: Resource Group VNet AKS cluster Application Gateway Public IP for App Gateway Working nginx ingress You can