Microsoft Azure Networking

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Traditional networking engineers entering the world of public cloud for the first time often feel like Alice in Wonderland. Everything looks and sounds familiar, and yet it all feels a bit different – ACLs sit in front of servers instead of on a router, there is no router, NAT happens somewhere behind the scenes…

This webinar will help demystify the networking aspects of Microsoft Azure. We’ll start with the high-level concepts, cover security aspects, and conclude with complex routing and hybrid cloud implementations.

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Contents

The webinar focuses on networking aspects of Microsoft Azure:

  • Geographies, regions and availability zones
  • High availability in Azure
  • Azure virtual networks
  • Private and public addressing
  • Packet forwarding in Azure
  • Network security
  • Internet access and NAT
  • VPN connectivity and direct connectivity to on-premises infrastructure (ExpressRoute)
  • Provisioning and orchestration

Virtual Networks

  • Virtual Network address prefixes and subnets
  • IPv4 subnet addressing
  • IPv6 support
  • Packet forwarding in Azure virtual networks
  • User-defined routes and service chaining
  • BGP routing with Virtual Network Gateway
  • Azure Route Server

Addressing

  • Internal and external addresses
  • Multiple IP addresses per VM instance
  • Public IP addresses
  • Using IPv6
  • DNS and DHCP

Security

  • Network and Application Security groups
  • Network security monitoring and troubleshooting
  • Network Virtual Appliances
  • Virtual Network TAP
  • Web Application Firewall (upcoming)

Beyond a single virtual network

  • Internet access and NAT
  • Virtual network peering
  • Virtual Network Gateways (VNG)
  • Site-to-Site and Remote Access VPN connectivity
  • VPN high availability
  • ExpressRoute

Azure Virtual WAN and Virtual Hubs

  • Azure Virtual WAN and Virtual Hubs Overview
  • Virtual Hub Routing
  • Multi-Region Routing
  • Simple connectivity scenarios
  • Complex connectivity scenarios, including shared services, hub-and-spoke connectivity and network appliances
  • Using Azure Firewall in Secure Virtual Hub
  • Third-party appliances within Virtual Hubs

Load Balancing

  • Azure Load Balancer (transparent L4 load balancing)
  • Cross-Region Azure Load Balancer (global L4 load balancing)
  • Azure Application Gateway (web traffic load balancing – reverse HTTP proxy)
  • Azure Traffic Manager (DNS-based load balancing)
  • Azure Front Door (global web traffic load balancing)
  • Azure CDN (global HTTP content delivery network)

Simple deployment scenarios

  • Simple web service
  • Scale-out web service with load balancing
  • Multi-tier service with load balancing
  • Private and public subnets
  • Bring-your-own firewall
  • Inspection of intra-VNet traffic
  • High-availability hybrid cloud

Automating Azure deployments

  • Infrastructure-as-Code principles applied to cloud deployments
  • Using Resource Manager
  • Third party tools: Ansible and Terraform

Takeaways

After this webinar you’ll be able to:

  • Map network infrastructure requirements into Azure concepts and objects
  • Design complex Azure networking infrastructure
  • Design security, Internet access and inbound load balancing for Azure workloads
  • Build hybrid clouds by connecting Azure workloads with external networks

Target Audience

This webinar targets architects and designers who are planning, designing or building networking infrastructure within Microsoft Azure, or connecting Azure workloads with on-premises data centers.

It will also help server, virtualization, security and networking engineers understand the advantages and limitations of Azure virtual networks and related security and load balancing solutions.

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About the webinar

Great balance between Cloud and networking content. Exactly what I was hoping for, and looking forward to the next one!

Daren Fulwell
Up to Ivan's usual expert standards. Full of genuinely useful content about how Azure networking hangs together and is used. Really looking forward to the next instalment!
Daren Fulwell
The best overview of Azure networking stuffs I've seen so far.
Petr Hrubý
The handd-on labs really help cement an excellent course on Azure networking
stephen skinner
Really enjoyed this!
Thank you!
Patrick Diener
-Great primer for those with networking background seeking to get up to speed quickly with Azure.
-Topics are organized nicely into chunks, letting you skip directly to areas of interest
Kent Eitzmann
As alway another excellent webinar.
Gabriel Sulbaran
I literally didn't know anything about Azure. But after following the previous one about AWS, going through Azure was just a walk. Pointing the main difference between two providers was really helpful.
adrian giacometti
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Peter McCreesh
The best source of azure networking webinar you can find.
Driss JABBAR
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Mohamed Elshawwaf
I have been watching cloud networking videos, and those are very detailed. I have also purchased subscriptions from other vendors on cloud networking, but nothing matches Ivan's clear explanations of cloud networking concepts.
Jawed H Lashari
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Yuvaraj Harikeshavan
Ivan’s courses are the gold standard in Technical training. Azure course is no exception. Thorough, insightful and a result of Ivan’s passion and skills, the course is a an excellent finished product. Thank you, Ivan.
Harpreet Taluja
We are beginning to migrate some of our offerings to Microsoft Azure and I need to get up to speed with Azure products. I found this webinar very informative, and Ian explained the concepts in a clear manner and easy to follow along. I would recommend watching these webinars and then read Microsoft documentation to get a thorough understanding.
Jim Lopez

About the instructor

Very knowledgeable, but also honest about not knowing certain things. No bullshit!
Daren Fulwell

About the materials

Hit the spot! The demo videos were really useful to have watched ahead of the session too.
Daren Fulwell
Very useful reference in combination with my personal notes.
Daren Fulwell
I will not get tired of saying how well is organized and how clear and simple you are to transmit the concepts step by step
adrian giacometti
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Driss JABBAR
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Harpreet Taluja

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About the Author

Ivan PepelnjakIvan Pepelnjak, CCIE#1354 Emeritus, is an independent network architect, book author, blogger and regular speaker at industry events like Interop, RIPE and regional NOG meetings. He has been designing and implementing large-scale service provider and enterprise networks since 1990, and is currently using his expertise to help multinational enterprises and large cloud- and service providers design next-generation data center and cloud infrastructure using Software-Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Function Virtualization (NFV) approaches and technologies.

Ivan is the author of several books covering data center technologies, highly praised webinars, and dozens of data center and cloud-related technical articles published on his blog.

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