Creating a new Traffic Manager profile
Traffic Manager provides load balancing to services, but traffic is routed and directed using DNS entries. The front end is a Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN) assigned during creation, and all traffic coming to Traffic Manager is distributed to endpoints in the backend. In this recipe, we'll create a new Traffic Manager profile.
Getting ready
Before you start, open your browser and go to the Azure portal via https://portal.azure.com.
How to do it…
In order to create a new Traffic Manager profile, we must do the following:
- In the Azure portal, select Create a resource and choose Traffic Manager Profile under the Networking services (or search for
Traffic Manager Profilein the search bar). - In the new pane, we must provide information for the Name, Routing method, Subscription, and Resource group fields:
Figure 11.1: Providing information for a new Traffic Manager profile
- Note that under the routing methods...
