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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 virtual WAN

In many situations, the network topology can get very complex. It can be difficult to keep track of all network connections, gateways, and peering processes. Azure Virtual WAN provides a single interface to manage all these points.

Getting ready

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

How to do it…

  1. In the Azure portal, select Create a resource and choose Virtual WAN under Networking (or search for Virtual WAN in the search bar).
  2. In the new pane, we must provide information for the Subscription, Resource group, Resource group location, Name, and Type fields:
  3. Providing various information in the Basics pane for the virtual WAN resource

Figure 9.6: Information for the virtual WAN resource

Azure Virtual WAN is ready for deployment and it usually takes only a few minutes to complete.

How it works…

Azure Virtual WAN brings multiple network services to a single point. From here, we can configure, control, and monitor connections such as...