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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 local network gateway in the Azure portal

When a Site-to-Site connection is created, we have to provide configuration for both sides of the connection—that is, both Azure and on-premises. Although a local network gateway is created in Azure, it represents your local (on-premises) network and holds configuration information on your local network settings. It's an essential component for creating the VPN connection that is needed to create a Site-to-Site connection between the virtual network and the local network.

Getting ready

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

How to do it…

In order to create a new local network gateway, the following steps are required:

  1. In the Azure portal, select Create a resource and choose Local network gateway under the Networking services (or search for local network gateway in the search bar).
  2. The parameters that we need to provide are Name, IP address...