Azure Networking Cookbook

How it works...

The two main components of any load balancer are the frontend and the backend. The frontend defines the endpoint of the load balancer, and the backend defines where the traffic needs to go after reaching the load balancer. As the frontend information is created along with the load balancer, we must define the backend. Then traffic will be evenly distributed across endpoints in the backend. The available options for the backend pool are virtual machines, availability sets, and virtual machines scale sets.