Container gateway deployment in Azure

[Gerlof Bril]

We know we can deploy the container gateway in OpenShift (ARO or OCP) or in AKS.

There are many options for companies to build and deploy cloud native and containerized applications on Azure (see article Comparing Container Apps with other Azure container options | Microsoft Learn).

So the quesition we hav whether it is possible to deploy the container gateway via e.g. Azure Container Apps (ACA).

 

Our target is however, to go for OpenShift, using the L7 Operator, and deploy the container gateways in ephemeral mode. But that will take some time.

 

In the meantime we want to make the first step to move from the appliance gateways, which we have now deployed on VMWare ESX in the DMZ of our on prem data centers, to a container gateways with a database (Azure MySQL) in Azure.

In a productional environement which fits in our Azure infrastructure landscape following Microsoft's Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF) en Enterprise Scale Landing Zones (ESLZ).

[Ben Urbanski]

Hello Gerlof,

We only test against AKS, EKS, GKE, OCP and Tanzu, and we only have those available to us to reproduce related problems when customers open a support case. Though we have just updated our techdocs to make a clear statement of reasonable commercial effort support for all other Kubernetes distributions, we have no plans to do that for non-Kubernetes container platforms.

That said, we have provided individual statements of reasonable commercial effort support for other platforms (e.g. AWS Fargate) to specific customers, but only after they have demonstrated a high level of expertise and self-sufficiency with that platform, and it's clear they understand and accept even more limited reasonable commercial effort support.

If, under those circumstances, you're still interested in non-Kubernetes container platforms in Azure, please reach out to me directly.