A Comprehensive Guide to Azure Load Balancing Concepts

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