Azure Networking Cookbook

How it works...

An internal load balancer is assigned a private IP address and all requests coming to the frontend of an internal load balancer must come to a private address, limiting the traffic coming to the load balancer to be from within the VNet associated with the load balancer. Traffic can come from other networks (other VNets or local networks) if there is some kind of virtual private network (VPN) in place. The traffic coming to the frontend of the internal load balancer will be distributed across the endpoints in the backend of the load balancer. Internal load balancers are usually used for services that are not placed in a demilitarized zone (DMZ) (and therefore not accessible over the internet) but rather in middle- or back-tier ...