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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 the backend pools

After the application gateway is created, we must define the backend pools. Traffic coming to the front end of the application gateway will be forwarded to the backend pools. Backend pools in application gateways are the same as backend pools in load balancers and are defined as possible destinations where traffic will be routed based on other settings that will be added in future recipes in this chapter.

Getting ready

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

How to do it...

In order to add backend pools to our application gateway, we must do the following:

  1. In the Azure portal, locate the previously created application gateway.
  2. In the Application gateway pane, under Settings, select Backend pools. Select Add to add a new backend pool or select an existing one to edit:
    Defining backend pools for the application gateway

    Figure 12.12: Adding a backend pool to our application gateway

  3. In the new pane, the only difference between new...