Creating a new application gateway
Azure Application Gateway can be used as a simple load balancer to perform traffic distribution from the frontend to the backend based on protocols and ports. But it can also expand on that and perform additional routing based on hostnames and paths. This allows us to have resource pools based on rules and also allows us to optimize performance. Using these options and performing routing based on context will increase application performance, along with providing high availability. Of course, in this case, we need to have multiple resources for each performance type in each backend pool (each performance type requests a separate backend pool).
Getting ready
Before you start, open the browser and go to the Azure portal at https://portal.azure.com.
How to do it...
In order to create a new application gateway, we must do the following:
- In the Azure portal, select Create a resource and choose Application Gateway under Networking (or...
