Microsoft Azure Cloud Networking & Automation Fundamental

Create an Azure virtual network with address space 10.1.0.0/16 in Central India under the lab resource group, then add private 10.1.1.0/24 and public 10.1.2.0/24 subnets and verify.

Compare virtual networks to traditional networks, provision and configure Azure vnets with multiple subnets, and enforce isolation between vnets while understanding public and private IP ranges and vnet limitations.

Learn to set up Azure virtual network peering between VNet instances in the same region (regional pairing) and across regions (global pairing), verify subnets, and confirm peering status is connected.

Create a Windows Azure virtual machine in VNet one with a public subnet, configure a public IP and RDP access on port 3389, and verify connectivity in the Azure portal.

Demonstrate how virtual machines route traffic, how routing tables and VNet peering shape connectivity, and how public IPs and NAT gateways influence internet access within a VNet.

Azure NAT gateway provides fully managed, high-availability outbound internet connectivity for virtual networks, with static, dynamic, and port address translation options and public IP pools.

Explore a hub-spoke Azure network with a VPN gateway to route traffic between spokes, using a gateway subnet and gateway type to enable site-to-site, point-to-site, and VNet-to-VNet connections.

Explore how Azure network security groups filter traffic between resources in a virtual network and control ssh and http access using application security groups.

Learn to provision Azure resources with Terraform: create multiple VNets in the same region, set up VNet peering, and deploy a Windows VM with a dynamic public IP and NIC.

Azure VPN gateway essentials for site-to-site and point-to-site connections, including ExpressRoute and VNet-to-VNet options, encryption, redundancy, and scaling for secure, high-availability cloud-to-on-prem links.

Demonstrates turning on BGP for an Azure site-to-site VPN to replace static routes, configure BGP peers on the Azure gateway and local gateway, and verify reachability and BGP table updates.

Explore Azure’s IPv6 introduction, enabling dual-stack virtual networks with IPv4 and IPv6, IPv6 subnets (slash 64), and internet connectivity via NAT gateways or load balancers, addressing IPv4 depletion.

Azure IPv6 lab walks through provisioning a virtual network, enabling IPv6, allocating v6 ranges, and testing dual-stack connectivity with IPv4 primary addresses and instance level public IPs.

Move the IPv6 public IP from the instance to a standard public load balancer. Configure the load balancer with a front-end IP, backend pool, and outbound rule to enable access.