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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)

Creating an Azure DNS zone

To start using Azure DNS, we must first create a DNS zone. A DNS zone holds a DNS record for a specific domain, and it can hold records for a single domain at the time. A DNS zone will hold DNS records for this domain and possible subdomains. DNS name servers are set up to reply to any query on a registered domain, and point to a destination.

Getting ready

How to do it...

In order to create a new Azure DNS zone with the Azure portal, we must follow these...