## Overview

Deploy a production-ready web ingress and application backend on Azure in minutes. This solution template provisions Application Gateway v2, optional WAF protection, and an Ubuntu VM backend with secure networking and optional HTTPS termination.

## Business Value Proposition

- **Accelerate time-to-value**: Launch a secure baseline architecture quickly instead of assembling networking and security services manually.

- **Reduce implementation risk**: Use a consistent deployment pattern with built-in health probes, optional WAF, and controlled network exposure.

- **Improve operational efficiency**: Standardize ingress, TLS handling, and core infrastructure so teams spend less time on setup and more on application delivery.

## Business Audience

This offer is designed for:

- **Cloud Architects** defining secure reference deployments

- **Platform Engineering and DevOps Teams** implementing repeatable environments

- **IT Operations Teams** responsible for reliable, policy-aligned web infrastructure

- **Application Teams** that need a fast, production-oriented starting point on Azure

## Target Industries

Suitable across all industries that host internet-facing applications, especially:

- **Financial Services** (security-first ingress and policy controls)

- **Healthcare and Public Sector** (controlled exposure and auditable architecture)

- **Retail and eCommerce** (scalable traffic handling)

- **Software and SaaS Providers** (rapid environment standardization)

## Key Features

### 🔒 Enterprise-Grade Security

- **HTTPS Termination**: Optional certificate management via Key Vault

- **WAF Protection**: OWASP 3.2 ruleset (optional)

- **Managed Identity**: Secure, passwordless authentication

- **Network Isolation**: Backend resources protected from direct internet access

### ⚡ High Performance & Scalability

- **Application Gateway v2**: Modern, high-performance load balancer

- **Autoscaling**: Automatic capacity adjustment (1-100 instances)

- **Standard SKU Public IP**: Enhanced reliability and performance

- **Health Probes**: Automatic backend health monitoring

### 🚀 Quick Deployment

- **Fully Automated**: Complete infrastructure in minutes

- **Pre-configured Networking**: VNet, subnets, NSG, and routing

- **Application Backend Ready**: Ubuntu VM deployed behind Application Gateway

- **Zero Manual Configuration**: All components auto-configured and integrated

## What Gets Deployed

- **Virtual Network**: 10.10.0.0/16 with dedicated subnets

- **Application Gateway v2**: HTTP or HTTPS listener and backend pool

- **Key Vault**: Conditionally created for certificate storage when HTTPS is enabled

- **Managed Identity**: For secure Key Vault access

- **Ubuntu 22.04 LTS VM**: Backend workload host

- **Network Security Group**: With security rules

- **Public IP Addresses**: Standard SKU for gateway and VM access

- **Optional WAF Policy**: OWASP 3.2 ruleset

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