Azure CDN is a managed service by Azure that hosts a distributed network of servers to efficiently deliver web content to users. It offers a solution to deliver high-bandwidth content with minimum latency by caching the content on physical nodes across the world.

While serving static web applications in Azure, it is ideal to use a CDN to share the assets quickly and efficiently to the edge nodes without any latency. The caching avoids the end user's traffic to the endpoint and instead accesses the same data locally, saving time and resources. The CDN caching is perfect for hosting static images, CSS files, and JS files.

In this hands-on lab, you will implement an Azure CDN profile to host static assets for web applications.

Learning Objectives

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

• Understand various types of CDN offerings in Azure
• Create a CDN profile
• Understand the static file hosting mechanism for Web Applications

Intended Audience

• Cloud Architects
• Data Engineers
• DevOps Engineers
• Software Engineers

Prerequisites

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

• Azure Web Apps
• Azure Front Door

The following content can be used to fulfill the prerequisite:

• Implementing Azure Front Door with App Service Origin-Host
• Working with Azure App Service using Azure CLI

Updates

January 30th, 2024: Updated Instruction to deploy the CDN profile