How to use this Outline You are new to a corporate Azure environment or tenant as a new hire or consultant and need to get an a good breadth of understanding so you are in a position to support, build, design and solution in this Azure environment. This outline serves as a checklist, not exhaustive, …
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I have been working with Istio Service Mesh with Azure Kubernetes for a couple years, I like to share my experiences that were beneficial and impactful in my projects. Istio Service mesh helps with managing traffic among your microservices applications. Read more at https://istio.io/latest/about/service-mesh/ The general architecture is as follows where a service A (in …
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Use Case: A virtual machine requires private network traffic to an Azure SQL Server for stringent network security requirements. There can not be any network traffic over the internet and Azure backbone network. Introduction When creating an Azure SQL Database Server, there are three typical options for connectivity. I will give simplistic description of each. …
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To recap the AKS configuration settings we explored Network Model/Type: Basic (Kubenet) or Advanced (Azure CNI) Choose between a basic network configuration using kubenet with a default VNet, or an advanced configuration using Azure CNI with the option to customize your VNet. Kubenet is a very basic, simple network plugin, on Linux only. It does …
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Part 5: Network Security Scenario: Building a demo or proof of concept to understand the technology, azure resources and configuration settings that involve Azure Virtual Networks, VNet Peerings, Virtual Network Gateway, and Site to Site VPN Connections. The architecture is to emulate a hybrid cloud topology with on-premises network emulated with an Azure VNETs in …
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Part 4: VNET, Subnet and Peerings Scenario: Building a demo or proof of concept to understand the technology, azure resources and configuration settings that involve Azure Virtual Networks, VNet Peerings, Virtual Network Gateway, and Site to Site VPN Connections. The architecture is to emulate a hybrid cloud topology with on-premises network emulated with an Azure …
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Part 3: Hub and Spoke Topology Scenario: Building a demo or proof of concept to understand the technology, azure resources and configuration settings that involve Azure Virtual Networks, VNet Peerings, Virtual Network Gateway, and Site to Site VPN Connections. The architecture is to emulate a hybrid cloud topology with on-premises network emulated with an Azure …
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Part: 2 Site to Site VPN Connection Scenario: Building a demo or proof of concept to understand the technology, azure resources and configuration settings that involve Azure Virtual Networks, VNet Peerings, Virtual Network Gateway, and Site to Site VPN Connections. The architecture is to emulate a hybrid cloud topology with on-premises network emulated with an …
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Part: 1 Architecture Overview Scenario: Building a demo or proof of concept to understand the technology, azure resources and configuration settings that involve Azure Virtual Networks, VNet Peerings, Virtual Network Gateway, and Site to Site VPN Connections. The architecture is to emulate a hybrid cloud topology with on-premises network emulated with an Azure VNETs in …
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To save on costs on running Azure Application Gateway in non production environments, I run the following Azure PowerShell commands. Login with Azure PowerShell to your subscription $resourceGroupName = <name>$azureAppGatewayName = <name> $appGateway= Get-AzApplicationGateway -Name $azureAppGatewayNam -ResourceGroupName $resourceGroupNameStop-AzApplicationGateway -ApplicationGateway $appGateway Start-AzApplicationGateway -ApplicationGateway $appGateway Hope this helps.
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