AZ-104 Certification Notes
Chapter 11 - Introduction to Application Gateway
Introduction to Application Gateway
Azure Application Gateway is application-level routing and load balancing service.
Application Gateway operates on OSI Layer 7 also known as the Application Layer.
Azure Web Application Firewall (WAF) policies can be attached to an Application Gateway to provide additional security.
You need to configure a Frontend
- Private IP will create an Internal Load Balancer
- Public IP will create a Public/External Load Balancer
You need to configure a Backend
- You'll need to create backend pools
- A backend pool is a collection of resources to which your application gateway can send traffic
- A backend pool can contain
- Virtual machines
- Virtual machine scale sets
- IP addresses
- Domain names
- App services
You need to configure Routing Rules
- Listeners list to incoming traffic and passes it to rules
- Rules say who should we pass data to
- HTTP/S settings say how we should handle HTTP requests
Practice Quiz
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What are the two components you need to configure in Frontends?
- Rules
- Virtual machines
- Private IP
- Public IP
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In routing rules, which feature manages who should we pass data to?
- Listeners
- Rules
- WAF
- HTTP/S settings
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What is Azure Application Gateway?
- Azure Application Gateway is an application-level routing and load balancing service.
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What are policies that can be attached to an Application Gateway to provide additional security?
- Azure Web Application Firewall (WAF)
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What are Backend pools?
- A backend pool is a collection of resources to which your application gateway can send traffic.