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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

Changing a reservation for a private IP address

For private IP addresses, you can change the IP address at any time to another value. With public IP addresses, this isn't the case, as you get the IP address randomly from a pool and aren't able to change the value. With a private IP address, you can change the value to another IP address from the address space.

Getting ready

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

How to do it...

To change a reservation for a private IP address, follow these steps:

  1. In the Azure portal, locate the NIC you want to make changes for.
  2. In the Network interface pane, go to IP configurations under Settings and select the IP configuration:

    Clicking IP configuration in the Network interface pane

    Figure 4.10: Locating the IP configuration in the Network interface pane

  3. In Private IP address settings, enter a new value for IP address:

    Entering a new value for Private IP address to change the IP reservation

    Figure 4.11: Assigning a new value for the private IP address

  4. After these changes have been...