Azure Load Balancer routes TCP packets. Application Gateway reads your HTTP traffic — URLs, headers, cookies — and makes intelligent routing decisions. Plus it terminates SSL and blocks attacks.
What you'll learn:
- Load Balancer vs Application Gateway — when to use which
- How Application Gateway works at Layer 7
- Listeners — how it receives incoming traffic
- Request routing rules — Basic vs Path-based
- Backend pools and HTTP settings
- SSL termination — offload HTTPS from your servers
- End-to-end SSL — re-encrypt traffic to backends
- Web Application Firewall (WAF) — block OWASP threats
- URL path-based routing — send /api to one pool, /images to another
- Multi-site hosting — multiple domains on one gateway
- Autoscaling and zone redundancy for production
Azure Series — Topic 18 of 50
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