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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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Configuring traffic based on priority

Another routing method available is priority. Priority, as its name suggests, gives priority to some endpoints, while some endpoints are kept as backups. Backup endpoints are only used if endpoints with priority become unavailable. In this recipe, we'll configure Traffic Manager to route traffic based on priority.

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 set the routing method to Priority, we must do the following:

  1. In the Azure portal, locate the previously created Traffic Manager profile.
  2. Under Settings, select the Configuration option.
  3. Change Routing method to Priority, as shown in Figure 11.9:
    Setting the routing method to Priority in the Configuration pane

Figure 11.9: Changing the routing method to Priority

How it works…

Priority sets a priority order for endpoints. All traffic will first go to the endpoints with the highest priority. Other endpoints (with...