In my previous blog post, I explain how we can use Azure load balancer to distribute network traffic to endpoints in the same Azure region. It can be accessed using https://www.rebeladmin.com/2020/01/step-step-guide-setup-azure-load-balancer/ . But we can’t use the same method to distribute traffic to different Azure regions. For that, we have to use the Azure Traffic Manager.
The azure traffic manager is a DNS based traffic load balancer. It does have the following characteristics,
• Based on the traffic-routing method, it can route traffic to the closest endpoints to the user. This will improve the application/service performance.
• When an endpoint is not available, the traffic will automatically route to the most appropriate endpoint.
• Application/service maintenance can be done without any downtime. During the maintenance, traffic can redirect to other available endpoints.
In this demo, I am going to demonstrate how we can use Azure traffic managers to improve the application/service performance by pointing users to the closest endpoint. This demo includes the following tasks,
1. Setup two new resource groups (East US, UK South)
2. Setup two new windows VM (East US, UK South)
3. Setup IIS with sample web page
4. Create a Traffic Manager profile
5. Add endpoints to Traffic Manager profile
6. Testing
Setup two new resource groups (East US, UK South)
Let’s go ahead and start the setup process by creating a new Azure resource group.
For the configuration process, I will be using Azure PowerShell. Therefore, please make sure you have an Azure PowerShell module installed. More info about it can find under https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/azure/install-az-ps?view=azps-2.6.0
1. Launch PowerShell console and connect to Azure using Connect-AzAccount
2. Then create a new resource group using,
New-AzResourceGroup -Name REBELRGEUS -Location “East US”
New-AzResourceGroup -Name REBELRGUKS -Location “UK South”
In the above, we are creating two resource groups. The first one called REBELRGEUS and it is created on East US Azure region.
The second group is called REBELRGUKS and it is created on UK South azure region.
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