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Hands-On Networking with Azure

By : Mohamed Waly
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Hands-On Networking with Azure

By: Mohamed Waly

Overview of this book

Microsoft Azure networking is one of the most valuable and important offerings in Azure. No matter what solution you are building for the cloud, you'll fi nd a compelling use for it. This book will get you up to speed quickly on Microsoft Azure Networking by teaching you how to use different networking services. By reading this book, you will develop a strong networking foundation for Azure virtual machines and for expanding your on-premise environment to Azure. Hands-On Networking with Azure starts with an introduction to Microsoft Azure networking and creating Azure Virtual Networks with subnets of different types within them. The book helps you understand the architecture of Azure networks. You will then learn the best practices for designing both Windows- and Linux-based Azure VM networks. You will also learn to expand your networks into Azure and how to use Azure DNS. Moreover, you will master best practices for dealing with Azure Load Balancer and the solutions they offer in different scenarios. Finally, we will demonstrate how the Azure Application Gateway works, offering various layer-7 load balancing capabilities for applications. By the end of this book, you will be able to architect your networking solutions for Azure.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Title Page
Dedication
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Private Azure DNS zones


Private zones is currently in preview, and in a nutshell, it does the common tasks that any DNS zone can do, but in a more customized way. So, you can assign the private DNS zone to a virtual network. As a result, you can do whatever you want to do within this virtual network with a DNS only associated with it, and you do not get the information within this virtual network exposed externally. Private DNS zones support most of the common DNS records.

To use private DNS zones, you need to send your subscription details to [email protected], since it is available in preview currently.

Also, creating private DNS zones and configuring DNS zones at the time of writing is only supported via PowerShell.

Therefore, in order to create a private DNS zone, you need to do the following:

  1. Retrieve the VNet and store it in a PowerShell variable, as you've learned from the Chapter 1Azure Virtual Networks 101Add Address Space to a Virtual Network using PowerShell section...