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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

Adding multiple IP addresses to an NIC

In various situations, we may need to have multiple IP addresses associated with a single NIC. In Azure, this is possible for both private and public IP addresses.

Getting ready

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

How to do it...

  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 click Add:
    Clicking the Add button in the IP configuration settings of the Network interface pane

    Figure 4.14: The Network interface pane

  3. A new pane for IP configuration will appear. We need to provide values for the Name and Type fields (Type will be grayed out if another IP configuration already exists), and we need to select some IP address settings. If only a private IP address is needed, we just need to select the private address Allocation and click Create:
    Configuring the Private IP address settings in the new pane

    Figure 4.15: Adding IP configuration to the NIC

  4. If an additional public IP address is needed, we need to select Associate...