From the course: Microsoft Azure: Networking Concepts (2021)

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Manage an Azure load balancer

Manage an Azure load balancer

- [Instructor] Now that our load balancer has been created in our subscription, we can go ahead and take a look at the configuration options for the load balancer. There are really four things that we look at when we look at a load balancer, the frontend, the backend, the health probes, and the inbound NAT rules. Those are the main configurations along with the load balancing rules that we would set in the properties of a load balancer. So first of all, again, I've got my first series of options here which are generic across all objects in Azure, and then I have my specific settings that are unique to the load balancer. So first, let's go take a look at the frontend IP configuration. Now, think of the frontend IP configuration as the entry point into your load balancer. So on a physical network or on an on-premises network, you have an IP address that is the entry point for your data center, or a set of servers, or…

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