Summary
In this chapter, we covered an overview of what Azure VNet is. We discussed core VNet planning concepts such as designing a consistent naming scheme, which is critical to resource identification, especially in logging scenarios that we will cover later in this book. We discussed key considerations around selecting the right regions to deploy your networks into, specifying an IP address space that scales, and implementing private IP assignments.
We also carried out hands-on exercises on creating single-stack and dual-stack VNets, determining VM location and sizes for future exercises, and exploring private IP assignments to further solidify the concepts that you learned in this chapter.
The skills that you gained in this chapter are foundational to your being able to design reliable network architectures in Azure to host business-critical applications.
Azure network engineering is a deep and complex topic and we’re only just starting to scratch the surface. In the next chapter, we will cover one of the most important aspects of designing scalable networks in Azure – DNS.