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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

Introduction to Azure Traffic Manager


So far, you have learned what Azure Load Balancer is and why it is important. Azure Traffic Manager is the next level of load distribution. With Azure Traffic Manager, you are not distributing your traffic across a VNet or a set of VMs, but you are distributing the traffic across multiple Azure data centers and multiple regions across the world.

Azure Traffic Manager is one of the Azure services that provide users better and more customizable solutions to control the user traffic distribution of various service endpoints located in different data centers around the world.

Azure Traffic Manager supports various endpoints, such as cloud services, App Services, and even public IP addresses that can be associated with VMs, Load Balancers, and so on. Also, it can be used with non-Azure endpoints, either in other clouds or in your on-premises environment. Azure Traffic Manager uses intelligent DNS to specify the fulfilling endpoint.

In a nutshell, Azure Traffic...