Chapter 3

Design and implement routing

Routing traffic is a core component of any type of application deployment in your Azure environment. This can be an “east-west” type of traffic within the subscription, from one virtual network to another network or service. Or it can be a “north-south” type of traffic that flows in and out of the application.

The traffic flow in your virtual network can be manipulated by using user-defined routes (UDRs). Then, depending on the scenario, incoming traffic can be distributed across multiple backend resources using load balancers, application gateways, Azure Front Door, or Azure Traffic Manager. For outgoing traffic, you can represent multiple virtual machines with a single public IP using a NAT gateway. All ...

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