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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 Traffic Manager key points


The following key points should be the answers to the questions that came to your mind throughout the chapter:

  • For priority Traffic Manager, you can specify a value for the priority between 1 and 1000.
  • Multiple endpoints in priority Traffic Managers cannot share the same value.
  • If you do not set the priority value, by default it will set the next in order.
  • For weighted Traffic Manager, you can specify a value for the weight between 1 and 1000.
  • If you do not set the weight value, by default it will be set to 1.
  • For performance Traffic Manager, all the endpoints located within the same region will receive the traffic evenly.
  • If any of performance Traffic Manager endpoints go down, the client traffic will be sent to the nearest endpoint.
  • For geographic Traffic Manager, you can specify the regional grouping and the country/region. However, you can restrict the distribution only to some countries on the level of state/province, such as the USA, Canada, Australia, and...