I've been working with Azure since 2012 and guess what? I can confirm that you will be using more than one virtual network for all your Azure services and when you create another virtual network, a situation may arise when you would need to let the resources in each virtual network to communicate with each other.
As you know, by default, virtual networks are isolated and cannot communicate with each other. However, with virtual network, peering it is no longer an issue.
Configuring virtual network peering is a very straightforward process. To do so, you can follow these steps:
- Navigate to
Virtual networks
, and open the blade of one of the virtual networks that you want to peer. - Scroll down to
Peerings
, as shown in the following screenshot:
Figure 2.7: Virtual network peering
- Click on
Add
, and a new blade will pop up, where you have to specify the following:Name
: Give the peer a name.Virtual network deployment model
: Specify whether you...