Azure Networking
Azure Networking
- Connectivity Services trough vNET, ExpressRouter, VPN Gateway
- Application protection services like DDoS protection, Firewall, NSGs, WAF, etc
- Application delivery services like CDN, Load Balancer, Application Gateway
- Network monitoring trough Azure Monitor, Service Health, Network Watcher, etc
vNET
The fundamental building block for your private network in Azure. vNET are pretty straight forward and not hard to configure. A vNET is a virtual Network in which some of your applications and services are connected and because of that connection they are able to communicate to each other. A vNET also creates an isolation for those applications.
vNET Peering
Two or more vNET can communicate to each other by what is called vNET Peering. When connect by a vNET peering the applications and services will behave like they are inside of the same vNET
Load Balancer
Communicate inbound to a resource by assigning a public IP address or a Public Load Balancer. When using a Load Balancer, the connection will be established in between the external resource and the Load Balancer and later on from the Load Balancer to the internal resource (in case the internal service is still health)
On-Prem DC: VPN Gateway or ExpressRoute
Connect your on-premises network to a vistual network using VPN Gateway or ExpressRoute.
ExpressRoute
The ExpressRoute is a private connection to Azure Cloud. It is a dedicated link to the data center. In case you have an ExpressRoute your on-prem network will have a direct physical link to a “Partner Edge” (A 3th company) and from there on trough other direct physical links to other “Partner Edges” or Microsoft data center itself.
CDN
It delivers high-bandwidth content to users by caching their content at strategically places physical nodes across the world. By having some very common used data cached closer to the clients you increase the use experience.
It is very common used for JS, styles, fonts and files which are not often changing their content so they can be cached.
Application Delivery Services (Application Gateways)
It is web traffic load balancer that enables you to manage traffic to your web applications. It is needed to configure it in order to let the gateway know what services to forward a request for each HTTP request made by a client