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Azure Networking Cookbook

By : Mustafa Toroman
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Azure Networking Cookbook

By: Mustafa Toroman

Overview of this book

Microsoft provides organizations with an effective way of managing their network with Azure's networking services. No matter the size of your organization, Azure provides a way to highly reliable performance and secure connectivity with its networking services. The book starts with an introduction to the Azure networking like creating Azure virtual networks, designing address spaces and subnets. Then you will learn to create and manage network security groups, application security groups, and IP addresses in Azure. Gradually, we move on to various aspects like S2S, P2S, and Vnet2Vnet connections, DNS and routing, load balancers and traffic manager. This book will cover every aspect and function required to deliver practical recipes to help readers learn from basic cloud networking practices to planning, implementing, and securing their infrastructure network with Azure. Readers will not only be able to upscale their current environment but will also learn to monitor, diagnose, and ensure secure connectivity. After learning to deliver a robust environment readers will also gain meaningful insights from recipes on best practices. By the end of this book, readers will gain hands-on experience in providing cost-effective solutions that benefit organizations.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

Configuring a WAF

WAF is an additional setting for the application gateway. It's used to increase the security of applications behind the application gateway and also provides centralized protection.

Getting ready

To enable WAF, we must set the application gateway to the WAF tier. To do so, we must do the following:

  1. In the Application gateway blade, go to Configuration, under Settings, as shown in the following screenshot:
  1. Change the Tier selection from Standard to WAF. Click the Save button:

How to do it...

After the application gateway is set to WAF, we can...