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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 an Azure Front Door instance

Azure Front Door is used for the global routing of web traffic for applications distributed across different Azure regions. With Azure Front Door, we can define, manage, and monitor the routing of our web traffic and enable quick global failover. It enables us to deliver our applications with the best performance and high availability. Azure Front Door is an L7 load balancer, similar to Application Gateway. However, there is a difference as regards global distribution. In terms of global distribution, it is similar to another service—Traffic Manager. Essentially, Azure Front Door combines the best features of Application Gateway and Traffic Manager—the security of Application Gateway and the distribution capability of Traffic Manager.

Getting ready

Azure Front Door requires services that will be added to the backend pool. You can use a script from the Getting ready section of the Adding an endpoint recipe, under Chapter 11,...