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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 a new Traffic Manager profile

Traffic Manager provides load balancing to services, but traffic is routed and directed using DNS entries. The front end is a Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN) assigned during creation, and all traffic coming to Traffic Manager is distributed to endpoints in the backend. In this recipe, we'll create a new Traffic Manager profile.

Getting ready

Before you start, open your browser and go to the Azure portal via https://portal.azure.com.

How to do it…

In order to create a new Traffic Manager profile, we must do the following:

  1. In the Azure portal, select Create a resource and choose Traffic Manager Profile under the Networking services (or search for Traffic Manager Profile in the search bar).
  2. In the new pane, we must provide information for the Name, Routing method, Subscription, and Resource group fields:
    Creating Traffic Manager profile by providing various information

    Figure 11.1: Providing information for a new Traffic Manager profile

  3. Note that under the routing methods...