Web application firewall The web application firewall (WAF) is a specialized service that caters to protecting web-based traffic to protect from vulnerabilities and exploits. The service is based onthe Core [...]
Features and capabilities Azure Load Balancer offers several features and capabilities as part of its service, such as load balancing, port forwarding, automatic reconfiguration, health probes, and outbound source NAT [...]
Load Balancer SKUs Azure Load Balancer comes with two different SKU options, Basic and Standard. They differ in price, features, and delivery of the service. Basic The Basic load balancer [...]
Configuring an ILB In this demonstration, we are going to create and configure a load balancer from the Azure portal. We are going to route internal traffic with a basic [...]
Creating the load balancer Now, we can create the load balancer using the Azure portal as follows: Figure 16.4 – See more in Marketplace Figure 16.5 – Load Balancer Figure [...]
Creating load balancing rules Load balancing rules define how the traffic is distributed to the VMs inside the backend pool. When you create a new rule, you define the frontend [...]
Configuring a public load balancer In this section, we are going to create a public load balancer using the Azure command-line interface (CLI). You can copy the code snippets in [...]
Creating the VNet and NSG This sectionwill deal with the creation of your VNet and NSG; run the following: #Create a virtual network az network vnet create --resource-group AZ104-PublicLoadBalancer –location [...]
Creating backend servers Now, we need to set up the backend servers. We are going to create two VMs that are going to be used as backend servers for the [...]
Testing the load balancer To test the load balancer, we need to obtain its public IP address and paste this into a browser window. Wait for the VMs to be [...]