A Comprehensive Guide to Azure Load Balancing Concepts

Name: A Comprehensive Guide to Azure Load Balancing Concepts
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all you need to know about cloud load balancing options

Created byVenkatramaiah Kurela

Last updated 2/2024

English

What you'll learn

Traditional Application Architecture: Understand the context of load balancing in traditional application architecture.
Master Load Balancing: Learn why load balancing is crucial and explore various options in traditional data centers.
Grasp High Availability (HA): Understand the concept of HA and its importance in system design.
Dive into Cloud Load Balancing: Get a smooth introduction to cloud load balancing concepts, comparing L4, L7, and DNS level load balancers across AWS, Azure, an
Understand Azure Load Balancer: Gain knowledge about Azure Load Balancer and its benefits.
Explore Azure Load Balancing Options: Understand different load balancing options in Azure like Network Load Balancer, Application Gateway, Traffic Manager.
Learn Load Balancer Categorizations: Understand load balancer categorizations like global vs regional, HTTP vs HTTP(s).
Make Informed Decisions: By the end of the course, students will be able to decide which Azure load balancer to use in a given scenario.

Course content

5 sections • 18 lectures • 44m total length

Introduction2:07
Learn fundamental load balancer concepts and how Azure Load Balancer, Application Gateway, Traffic Manager, and Front Door enable cloud-based high availability and DNS-based options.

Introduction to Module1:18
Understand why load balancers enable high availability, then explore traditional concepts alongside layer seven and DNS level balancing and cloud options from Azure and Google.
traditional application architecture2:00
Explore traditional three-tier hosting with web, application, and database servers, and learn how redundancy at each layer ensures high availability even when components fail.
High Availability3:32
Explore how high availability achieves redundancy at the component and server levels, using NICs, HBAs, RAID, and clustering to provide continuous service through active-active load balancing.
Introduction to Load balancer4:37
Discover how a load balancer sits in front of application servers, provides one public URL, and distributes traffic across a pool of healthy servers to improve availability, failover, and redundancy.
Load balancing options6:04
Explore load balancing options for web, application, and database tiers in a three-tier architecture, covering layer four and layer seven balancers, DNS level solutions, and active-active versus active-passive setups.

Introduction to Module0:50
Explore Azure Load Balancer concepts, compare traditional data center and cloud based load balancers, and highlight the benefits of Azure’s platform as a service based load balancers.
What is Azure Load Balancer1:52
Learn how a load balancer distributes traffic across servers, containers, or Kubernetes clusters to optimize resource usage and minimize response time, while increasing availability via Azure's platform as a service.
Benefits of using Azure Load Balancer3:28
Explore Azure load balancer, a fully managed service requiring no install or capacity planning. Create a basic or standard load balancer in the console, with pay-as-you-go pricing and high availability.

Introduction to Module1:22
Explore Azure load balancing options, including Azure Load Balancer, Azure Application Gateway Traffic Manager, and Front Door, with guidance on global versus regional support and http versus https.
Azure Load Balancing Options1:19
Explore Azure load balancer options, including layer four Azure load balancer, application gateway as layer seven, and DNS-based Traffic Manager and Front Door as global DNS options.
Azure Load Balancer1:38
Azure Application Gateway1:13
Azure Traffic Manager1:43
Azure Front Door1:38
Explore Azure Front Door, an application delivery network that provides global load balancing and site acceleration with layer seven capabilities, including SSL offloading, path-based routing, fast failover, and caching.
Azure Load Balancer Categorizations4:23
Explore Azure load balancing categorizations by global and regional deployments and http/https protocols. Learn how load balancers route to the nearest servers, offload SSL, and enable path-based and session affinity.
Decision tree for load balancing in Azure Cloud4:39
Use a decision tree to select the right Azure load balancers (Front Door, Application Gateway, Traffic Manager, Network Load Balancer) based on traffic type, public/private, and global versus regional deployment.

Requirements

there are no specific requirements as such however knowing basic networking concepts is add-on

Description

Learn about load balancing concepts from basic to cloud load balancing technology and cloud load balancing options. Those who are learning AWS Cloud, Azure Cloud or Google Cloud, This course will help you to great extent in understanding and working with Azure load balancing.

In this course you will understand about traditional application architecture, High Availability (HA), necessity of load balancers, and traditional datacenter load balancing options. Gain expertise in cloud load balancing, comparing L4, L7, and DNS level load balancers across AWS, Azure, and Google. Understand Azure Load Balancer and its advantages for efficient workload distribution. Explore various load balancing options in Azure including Network Load Balancer, Application Gateway, and Traffic Manager. Grasp load balancer classifications such as global vs regional, HTTP vs HTTPS. Develop the ability to select the most suitable Azure load balancer for specific scenarios.

Following topics have been discussed in detail with example.

Context of load balancing
1. Traditional application architecture
2. HA
3. Load balancing
4. Load Balancing Options
Introduction to Azure Load balancer
1. What is Azure Load Balancer
2. Benefits of Azure Load Balancer
Azure Load balancing Options
1. 1. Azure Load Balancer, Application Gateway, Traffic Manager, Front Door
2. Azure Load balancer categorizations
  1. Global vs reginal
  2. HTTP(S) vs. non-HTTP(S)
3. Azure load balancing decision tree explained
  1. Choose solution using portal

Who this course is for:

those who are learning azure cloud admin, developer, devops or architecting concepts
anybody wanted to master azure networking
anybody wanted to master azure load balancing
those who are preparing azure interviews, this course help you to a good extent in clearing interveiws

A Comprehensive Guide to Azure Load Balancing Concepts

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Course content

Introduction1 lecture • 2min

Context of load balancing5 lectures • 18min

introduction to azure load balancer3 lectures • 6min

Azure Load Balancing Options8 lectures • 18min

Bonus Lesson1 lecture • 1min

Requirements

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