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Hands-On Networking with Azure

By : Mohamed Waly
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Hands-On Networking with Azure

By: Mohamed Waly

Overview of this book

Microsoft Azure networking is one of the most valuable and important offerings in Azure. No matter what solution you are building for the cloud, you'll fi nd a compelling use for it. This book will get you up to speed quickly on Microsoft Azure Networking by teaching you how to use different networking services. By reading this book, you will develop a strong networking foundation for Azure virtual machines and for expanding your on-premise environment to Azure. Hands-On Networking with Azure starts with an introduction to Microsoft Azure networking and creating Azure Virtual Networks with subnets of different types within them. The book helps you understand the architecture of Azure networks. You will then learn the best practices for designing both Windows- and Linux-based Azure VM networks. You will also learn to expand your networks into Azure and how to use Azure DNS. Moreover, you will master best practices for dealing with Azure Load Balancer and the solutions they offer in different scenarios. Finally, we will demonstrate how the Azure Application Gateway works, offering various layer-7 load balancing capabilities for applications. By the end of this book, you will be able to architect your networking solutions for Azure.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Title Page
Dedication
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Azure services integration with virtual networks


At the time of writing, Microsoft provides a wide variety of services, such as Azure VMs, Service Fabric, HDInsight, Redis Cache, and so on.

Can you imagine using any of these services without communicating with it to either get your tasks done or manage it yourself?

Of course you cannot, because what is the point of buying these services then? That is why you will be using virtual networks to provide a communication method to most of your services.

Azure VNet can be integrated with other services, either by assigning your Azure service to a virtual network, as is the case in Azure VMs when you want to assign the VMs you are going to build to a specific virtual network, or by extending your virtual network to a specific service by using virtual network service endpoints.

Integrating Azure services with Azure VNet key benefits

Integrating Azure services with Azure VNet has many advantages. The following are some of them:

  • Assigning different resources...