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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 IP group

IP groups are Azure resources that help to group IP addresses for easier management. This way, we can apply Azure Firewall rules easier and with better visibility.

Getting ready

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

How to do it...

In order to create a new IP group, we need to do the following:

  1. In the Azure portal, select Create a resource and choose IP Group under Networking services (or search for IP group in the search bar).
  2. In the new pane, provide information for Subscription, Resource group, Name, and Region:
    Providing the details required to create a new IP group

    Figure 7.11: Creating a new IP group using the Azure portal

  3. Under IP addresses, we need to provide something for the IP address, range or subnet field. In this example, we are adding a subnet:
    Entering the subnet details under the IP addresses tab

    Figure 7.12: Adding a subnet in the IP address, range or subnet field

  4. We can now proceed and deploy the IP group.

How it works...

IP groups allow us to associate multiple...