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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 public IP address in the Azure portal

Public IP addresses can be created as a separate resource or created during the creation of some other resources (a virtual machine (VM), for example). Therefore, a public IP can exist as part of a resource or as a standalone resource. First, we are going to show you how to create a new public IP address.

Getting ready

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

How to do it...

To create a new public IP address, we must follow these steps:

  1. In the Azure portal, select Create a resource and choose Public IP address under Networking services (or search for public IP address in the search bar).
  2. The parameters we need to define for deployment are IP Version, SKU, Name, IP address assignment, DNS name label, Subscription, Resource group, and Location. Idle timeout (the amount of time that the connection will stay open with no activity) is defaulted to 4 minutes but...