Creating an Azure Front Door instance

Azure Front Door is used for the global routing of web traffic for applications distributed across different Azure regions. With Azure Front Door, we can define, manage, and monitor the routing of our web traffic and enable quick global failover. It enables us to deliver our applications with the best performance and high availability. Azure Front Door is an L7 load balancer, similar to Application Gateway. However, there is a difference as regards global distribution. In terms of global distribution, it is similar to another service—Traffic Manager. Essentially, Azure Front Door combines the best features of Application Gateway and Traffic Manager—the security of Application Gateway and the distribution capability of Traffic Manager.

Getting ready

Azure Front Door requires services that will be added to the backend pool. You can use a script from the Getting ready section of the Adding an endpoint recipe, under Chapter 11,...