Azure announced the latest addition to Azure’s Application Gateway product family – Application Gateway for Containers. This powerful tool offers layer 7 load balancing and dynamic traffic management capabilities, specifically designed to cater to workloads within a Kubernetes cluster. With its advanced features, Application Gateway for Containers streamlines operations and enhances performance, making it an excellent choice for businesses…
Azure Front Door (AFD) is the ultimate solution for businesses with multiple locations and a global customer base. It offers speedy and secure access to internet-facing apps, serving end-users worldwide. With Microsoft’s global edge network, consisting of numerous points of presence (PoPs) distributed across the globe, your content is guaranteed to reach enterprise and consumer end-users in their vicinity….
RDP or SSH sessions are commonly used to access target servers as an IT admin. If a jumpbox is unavailable, it is often provided for connecting to the required target server for an RDP/SSH session. In the case of the public cloud, a jumpbox server is placed in the management Virtual Network, which in some environments, may be exposed…
Organizations can use Azure Cloud to host their applications using Azure infrastructure and PaaS components. Customers can deploy most Azure PaaS services in VNet, which provides added protection for traffic and aligns with security principles. However, some PaaS components cannot be deployed in customer VNets and are accessible over the public endpoint. This configuration may conflict with customers’ security…
When implementing cloud technology, it’s essential to pay close attention to the design of the networking topology. In this blog post, we will delve into the Azure networking topology and architecture, specifically examining two crucial methods. We will go over the design recommendations and limitations of Azure Hub and Spoke, and Azure Virtual WAN. Azure Hub and Spoke Architecture:…
Microsoft has announced that Azure Application Gateway v1 will be retired on April 28, 2026. Users are encouraged to transition to Azure Application Gateway v2, the primary service moving forward. The new customers aren’t allowed to create v1 from July 1, 2023. However, existing V1 customers can continue creating resources until August 2024. Application Gateway V1 must be stopped…
Numerous organizations have utilized several public cloud providers to accommodate their applications for various reasons. This blog post will discuss the different networking connectivity options between Azure and other cloud providers. There are three available methods to establish network connectivity between different cloud platforms. These methods are as follows: Option 1. Utilize each cloud provider’s private network connectivity services, such…
I am here to provide a single post for Azure updates on the previous month. In this blog, we will cover June month updates from Azure. Each update on this blog is not an exhaustive list of all the monthly updates. I want to call out the most specific updates from Infrastructure technologies (compute, storage, networking, identity, monitoring &…
In this blog post series, I walk through different networking application delivery services with features and limitations on each service. To read about the Azure load balancer, please visit the first part of the blog post. In the second part of the networking series, let’s discuss the Azure application gateway, front door, and traffic manager. Azure Application Gateway Features: This is…
Azure Cloud provides a variety of networking capabilities that can be used together or separately to meet different customer requirements. Utilize the Azure Application delivery services to ensure the application is secure and safe. Azure provides four types of networking services: Connectivity Services: Integrate Azure and On-premise resources using one or more services in Azure. Services: Azure Vnet, Express…
