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Public Preview: Application routing with meshless Istio in AKS

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Following the deprecation of ingress‑nginx, Kubernetes operators need a supported, standards‑aligned migration path for ingress without the complexity of a full service mesh. Application Routing with Meshless Istio enables adoption of the Kubernetes Gateway API for ingress management while avoiding sidecar‑based architectures, and Microsoft is extending support for existing ingress‑nginx‑based Application Routing while contributing to the open‑source ingress2gateway project. This allows teams to modernize ingress configurations incrementally, maintain operational continuity, and align with evolving Kubernetes standards.

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