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Learn Azure Administration

By : Kamil Mrzygłód
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Learn Azure Administration

By: Kamil Mrzygłód

Overview of this book

Microsoft Azure is one of the upcoming cloud platforms that provide cost-effective solutions and services to help businesses overcome complex infrastructure-related challenges. This book will help you scale your cloud administration skills with Microsoft Azure. Learn Azure Administration starts with an introduction to the management of Azure subscriptions, and then takes you through Azure resource management. Next, you'll configure and manage virtual networks and find out how to integrate them with a set of Azure services. You'll then handle the identity and security for users with the help of Azure Active Directory, and manage access from a single place using policies and defined roles. As you advance, you'll get to grips with receipts to manage a virtual machine. The next set of chapters will teach you how to solve advanced problems such as DDoS protection, load balancing, and networking for containers. You'll also learn how to set up file servers, along with managing and storing backups. Later, you'll review monitoring solutions and backup plans for a host of services. The last set of chapters will help you to integrate different services with Azure Event Grid, Azure Automation, and Azure Logic Apps, and teach you how to manage Azure DevOps. By the end of this Azure book, you'll be proficient enough to easily administer your Azure-based cloud environment.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
1
Section 1: Understanding the Basics
5
Section 2: Identity and Access Management
9
Section 3: Advanced Topics

Creating an Azure Front Door instance

Now, we will create an instance of Front Door and check how we can route and monitor traffic. In order to monitor and manage the global routing for web traffic with Azure Front Door, follow these instructions. You can create an Azure Front Door instance from the Azure portal by searching for it in the Marketplace, as follows:

Figure 9.23 – Azure Front Door in the Azure portal

The routing model of Azure Front Door consists of three levels:

  • Frontend hosts
  • Backend pools
  • Routing rules

They can all be configured either during the Front Door instance's creation or once it has been provisioned and is ready. Here, you can find an example configuration of Front Door, which allows me to connect to my blog through it:

Figure 9.24 – Configuring Front Door

The preceding feature is accessible via the Front Door designer blade in your Azure Front Door instance. Once routing has been configured, I will see that by going...