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Azure Networking Cookbook, Second Edition - Second Edition

By : Mustafa Toroman
Book Image

Azure Networking Cookbook, Second Edition - Second Edition

By: Mustafa Toroman

Overview of this book

Azure's networking services enable organizations to manage their networks effectively. With the Azure Networking Cookbook, you’ll see how Azure paves the way for an enterprise to achieve reliable performance and secure connectivity. This updated second edition will take you through the latest networking features in Azure. The book starts with an introduction to Azure networking, covering basics such as creating Azure virtual networks, designing address spaces, and creating subnets. You’ll create and manage network security groups, application security groups, and IP addresses in Azure using easy-to-follow recipes. As you progress through the book, you’ll explore various aspects such as DNS and routing, load balancers, Traffic Manager, and site-to-site, point-to-site, and VNet-to-VNet connections. This cookbook covers all the functions crucial to understanding cloud networking practices and being able to plan, implement, and secure your network infrastructure with Azure. You’ll not only upscale your current environment but also get well-versed with monitoring, diagnosing, and ensuring secure connectivity. The book will help you grasp best practices as you learn how to create a robust environment. By the end of this Azure cookbook, you’ll have gained hands-on experience developing cost-effective solutions that can facilitate efficient connectivity in your organization.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
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Index

Creating explicit outbound rules

When creating load balancing rules, we can create implicit outbound rules. This will enable Source Network Address Translation (SNAT) for VMs in the backend pool and allow them to access the internet over the load balancer's public IP address (specified in the rule). But in some scenarios, implicit rules are not enough and we need to create explicit outbound rules. Explicit outbound rules (and SNAT in general) are available only for public load balancers with the Standard SKU.

Getting ready

Before we begin, make sure that implicit outbound rules are disabled from load balancing rules:

Disabling implicit outbound rules from load balancing rules

Figure 10.14: Disabling implicit outbound rules

Now, open the browser and go to the Azure portal via https://portal.azure.com.

How to do it...

In order to create a load balancer rule, we must do the following:

  1. In the Azure portal, locate the previously created public load balancer.
  2. In the Load balancer pane, under...