Azure Services Part 6 — Front Doors
This article has been written as a partial requirement for the course : SENG 41283 : Distributed and Cloud Computing. The main areas discussed here are :
- setting up a sample environment in Azure cloud platform
- the cloud infrastructure setup for a simple web application using the available services in Azure
Azure Front Door
Azure Front Door is a scalable and secure entry point for fast delivery of your global web applications.
Azure Front Door enables you to define, manage, and monitor the global routing for your web traffic by optimizing for best performance and quick global failover for high availability. Azure Front Door or Azure CDN has several distribution points and deliver content to users more faster due to proximity and optimized connections. With Front Door, you can transform your global (multi-region) consumer and enterprise applications into robust, high-performance personalized modern applications, APIs, and content that reaches a global audience with Azure.
For my deployment, I first created a Front Door by configuring the frontends, backend pools and and routing rules by clicking + mark.
For Frontends/domains-
we have to set the frontend URL here. Azure CDN will be used for that.
The following features are included with Front Door:
- Accelerate application performance
- Increase application availability with smart health probes
- URL-based routing
- Multiple-site hosting
- Session affinity
- TLS termination
- Custom domains and certificate management
- Application layer security
- URL redirection
Creating CDN Profile
For create that , Microsoft’s CDN should register as registered resource provider in the Azure subscription you are using.
to create a CDN profile You can search Azure CDN in Azure.
Then You need to add endpoints fro profile. Do make sure to use a meaningful name because it’ll be your ‘hostname’.
Now you can find your endpoint hostname.
Thank You!
