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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

Configuring traffic based on geographical location

Geographical location is another routing method in Traffic Manager. This method is based on network latency and directs a request based on the geographical location of the origin and the endpoint. When a request comes to Traffic Manager, based on the origin of the request, it's routed to the nearest endpoint in terms of region. This way, it provides the least network latency possible. In this recipe, we'll configure Traffic Manager to route traffic based on geographical location.

Getting ready

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

How to do it…

In order to set the routing method to be based on geographical location, 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 the routing method to Geographic, as shown in Figure 11.10:
    Setting the routing method to Geographic in the Configuration pane
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