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Deploying Traffic Manager Profile for Weighted Traffic-Routing

Difficulty: Beginner
Duration: Up to 1 hour
Students: 25
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Azure Traffic Manager is a DNS-based traffic load balancer. This service allows you to distribute traffic to your public-facing applications across the global Azure regions. The Weighted traffic-routing method allows you to distribute traffic evenly or to use a pre-defined weighting; the higher the weight, the higher the priority. The weighted method is useful in scenarios like Gradual application upgrade, application migration to Azure, and Cloud-bursting for more capacity.

The weighted method is useful in scenarios like gradual application upgrades by giving a percentage of traffic to route to a new endpoint and for gradually increasing the traffic over time to 100% or for cloud-bursting for more capacity by quickly expanding an on-premises deployment into the cloud by putting it behind a Traffic Manager profile.

In this hands-on lab, you will understand how weighted traffic-routing works by configuring application endpoints across two different Azure locations.

Learning objectives

Upon completion of this beginner-level lab, you will be able to:

  • Create Traffic Manager profile for weighted traffic-routing
  • Configure application endpoints in the Traffic Manager profile
  • DNS-based Load Balancing

Intended audience

  • Candidates for Network Engineer Associate (AZ-700) certification
  • Cloud Architects
  • Data Engineers
  • DevOps Engineers
  • Machine Learning Engineers

Prerequisites

Familiarity with the following will be beneficial but is not required:

  • Networking fundamentals
  • Traffic Manager profile

The following content can be used to fulfill the prerequisites:

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Covered topics

Networking
High Availability
Microsoft Azure
Networking for Azure
Azure Traffic Manager
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Lab steps

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  1. Logging in to the Microsoft Azure Portal
  2. Creating Traffic Manager Profile and Adding a DNS Label to Virtual Machine
  3. Configuring Traffic Manager Endpoints and Validating the Connectivity to the Web Servers

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