Front door is outside so the load balancer will have to accept public internet traffic.
Front door application gateway.
With front door you can transform your global multi region consumer and enterprise applications into robust high performance personalized modern applications apis and content that reaches a global audience with azure.
Waf with azure front door is a globally distributed edge security solution.
For more information see load balancing with azure s application delivery suite.
Azure web application firewall waf on azure front door provides centralized protection for your web applications.
While front door can load balance between your different scale units clusters stamp units across regions application gateway allows you to load balance between your vms containers etc.
It keeps your service highly available for your users and helps you meet compliance requirements.
Azure front door enables you to define manage and monitor the global routing for your web traffic by optimizing for best performance and quick global failover for high availability.
Application gateway build secure scalable and highly available web front ends in azure azure information protection better protect your sensitive information anytime anywhere vpn gateway establish secure cross premises connectivity.
Waf with application gateway is a regional dedicated solution.
Waf defends your web services against common exploits and vulnerabilities.
Just like the azure application gateway front door can allow you to route traffic based on url paths of the request but it does allow for more complex route matching scenarios azure traffic manager enables you to control how traffic is distributed across your application endpoints.
Key vault safeguard and maintain control of keys and other secrets.
Application gateway build secure scalable and highly available web front ends in azure.
Refer to front door s routing architecture details and traffic routing methods to learn more about the service.
However i m also not happy with app gateway.
Azure information protection better protect your sensitive information anytime anywhere.
Vpn gateway establish secure cross premises connectivity.
Waf on front door is a global and centralized solution.
I m considering using something in k8s for north south routing like traefik ambasador or contour.
Application gateway provides application delivery controller adc as a service offering various layer 7 load balancing capabilities for your application.
Through a single pane of glass and global infrastructure azure front door enables azure customers to securely deliver and manage their global applications and content migrate to cloud and modern microservice architectures and improve their users experience.
While both front door and application gateway are layer 7 http https load balancers the primary difference is that front door is a global service whereas application gateway is a regional service.
We recommend you choose a solution based on your overall performance and security requirements.