Creating a Site-to-Site connection

A Site-to-Site connection is used to create a secure connection between an on-premises network and an Azure VNet. This connection is used to perform a number of different tasks, such as enabling hybrid connections or secure management. In a hybrid connection, we allow a service in one environment to connect to a service in another environment. For example, we could have an application in Azure that uses a database located in an on-premises environment. Secure management lets us limit management operations to being allowed only when coming from a secure and controlled environment, such as our local network.

Getting ready

Before you start, open your browser and go to the Azure portal at https://portal.azure.com.

How to do it...

To create a new Site-to-Site connection, we must follow these steps:

1. Locate the virtual network gateway (the one we created in Chapter 5, Local and virtual network gateways) and select Connections.
2. In...