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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 Private Link service

A Private Link service allows us to set up a secure connection to resources associated with Standard Load Balancer. For that, we need to prepare infrastructure prior to deploying the Private Link service.

Getting ready

We must create a virtual machine first. Check the Creating Azure virtual machines recipe from Chapter 2, Virtual machine networking. Note that in the Networking section, we want to select the same virtual network that was used to connect the SQL server in the previous recipe.

A Private Link service requires Standard Load Balancer as well. See the Creating a public load balancer, Creating a backend pool, Creating health probes, and Creating load balancer rules recipes from Chapter 10, Load balancers. Note that in the backend target, we need to select the virtual machine we just created.

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

How to do it…

In order to deploy the new Private...