Azure Load Balancer Introduction

Highlight

Azure Load balancing allows for distribution of load or incoming network traffic across a group of backend resources or servers. It operates at layer 4 of the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) model. It is the single point of contact for clients.

Intro

In this episode I give you introduction to what Azure Load Balancer service is and what are the key concepts around it including integrations with virtual machine scale sets and availability sets.

Agenda

In this episode I will show you a live demo of

• Creating load balancer service
• Adding backend pools
• Creating health probes
• Creating load balancing rules

Source code: https://github.com/MarczakIO/azure4everyone-samples/tree/master/azure-load-balancer-introduction

Video

Next steps for you after watching the video

1. Load balancer documentation
   • https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/load-balancer/load-balancer-overview?WT.mc_id=AZ-MVP-5003556
2. basic versus Standard Load Balancer
   • https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/load-balancer/load-balancer-standard-overview?WT.mc_id=AZ-MVP-5003556
3. Quickstart
   • https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/load-balancer/quickstart-load-balancer-standard-public-portal?WT.mc_id=AZ-MVP-5003556