Load Balancer

The half-year point has passed meaning that Azure (and Windows/Windows Server) are into a new planning & development cycle.

Septemeber was full of Azure announcements from Ignite, Aidan breaks all the news down so that it is easier to digest.

Aidan Finn explains the options you have for load balancing applications or services in Azure.

Microsoft recently added a new tier of load balancer to Azure, the Standard Load Balancer, in addition to the previous (now renamed) Basic Load Balancer. In this post, I will compare the two and explain why you might opt to deploy the Standard Load Balancer.

Month 3 of 2018 brought us some interesting news in Azure IaaS. Some things that have been in the oven for a while are starting to rise and there’s lots more evidence of the new and open Microsoft.

Aidan Finn discusses some architectural elements that you will use if you wish to deploy services across availability zones within a single Azure region.

Aidan Finn shows you how to deploy an internal Azure Service Environment, which will share its hosted app services via an internal load balancer.

Aidan Finn describes the many networking announcements that were made at Microsoft Ignite 2017.

Server administrators are going to be responsible for much of the networking that was not formerly in their scope. Azure Network Watcher is a great tool to help monitor and troubleshoot your network deployments.

Microsoft recently shared a detailed design for a secure network deployment in Azure, based on the United Kingdom’s cloud security principles. The focus of Microsoft’s article was on the UK, but we can use this design as a basis for other deployments.

In this post I will show you how to deploy and configure the Azure Resource Manager (ARM and CSP) network load balancer. The post will cover load balancing Azure virtual machines and creating NAT rules.

Learn how Azure Resource Manager (ARM) uses a virtual load balancer in the Azure fabric to implement NAT rules for Azure virtual machines.