Application Gateway for Containers: Web Application Firewall support

This post will explore the new support in Azure Application Gateway for Containers (AGC) for Web Application Firewall (WAF) as documented in https://aka.ms/agc/waf. This blog is part of a series:

10/10/2025 Article Bloggers Jose Moreno

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