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Microsoft Azure in Action
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Microsoft Azure in Action

by Lars Klint
November 2025
Beginner
368 pages
10h 44m
English
Manning Publications
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4 Networking in Azure

This chapter covers

  • Creating and using virtual networks, subnets, and network security groups
  • Using best practices for creating and managing virtual networks
  • Distributing traffic from an outside network to internal resources

Where compute is the brains of a cloud project, the networks that connect them are the arteries and blood lines. Just like computing, you need networking for anything you do with cloud computing on Azure. There’s no choice. At times, the network parts of your infrastructure will be abstracted away from you, but they’re still there.

Now, we’ll focus on the Azure Virtual Networks (VNets) that you can control, manage, and make jump through hoops made of IP address ranges. When managed effectively, ...

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