Azure Concepts

Microsoft Azure Administration AZ-104 Microsoft Azure is a cloud computing platform and infrastructure for building, deploying and managing applications and services through a global network of Microsoft-managed datacentres. It provides both Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS). Skills at a glance Manage Azure identities and governance (20–25%) Implement and manage storage (15–20%) Deploy and manage Azure…

Azure Storage

Azure storage Locally-Redundant Storage (LRS) LRS replicates data three times within one data center located in a primary region. When LRS is enabled, Azure Storage only registers write requests as successful once data is written to three replicas. LRS provides at least 99.999999999% durability for objects during a given year. LRS is offered at a…

Azure Availability Sets

Availability Sets Availability Sets An availability set is a logical grouping of VMs that allows Azure to understand how your application is built to provide for redundancy and availability. We recommended that two or more VMs are created within an availability set to provide for a highly available application and to meet the 99.95% Azure SLA.…

Azure Front Door and CDN profiles

Azure Front door and CDN profiles Azure Front Door is a secure cloud CDN which provides static and dynamic content acceleration, global load balancing and protection of your apps, APIs and websites with intelligent threat protection. AFD service is microsoft’s highly available and scalable web application accelaeration platform and global HTTP(s) load balancer. It provides…

Application Gateway

Load balancing | Application Gateway Azure Application Gateway gives you application-level routing and load balancing services that let you build a scalable and highly-available web front end in Azure. You control the size of the gateway and scale your deployment based on your needs. It will comes under Layer 7(Application) in OSI model. We will…

Azure Traffic Manager

Load balancing | Traffic Manager Azure Traffic Manager is a DNS-based traffic load balancer. This service allows you to distribute traffic to your public facing applications across the global Azure regions. Traffic Manager also provides your public endpoints with high availability and quick responsiveness. Also called as Global load balancer. Requires DNS to be configure…

Create a VM in Azure Portal

Create a VM in Azure portal Login to shell.azure.com (if this the first time you are logging in then it will ask to create a storage account.) run the below commands to create a VM az vm create –resource-group HUBRG01 –name WEB1 –image UbuntuLTS –location eastus –vnet-name HUBVNET01 –subnet HUBSUBNET01 –admin-username rootadmin –admin-password “Password” –nsg…

Azure Load Balancer

Azure load balancer Azure Load balancer will share the load among all the webservers by using round-robin method and it will not inspect the packets. It will use Layer 4(Transport Layer) in OSI model. Note: It will works as AWS NLB. Below are the OSI Layers: We have total 7 layers. L7 – Application Layer…