Summary

This chapter was dedicated to Azure Load Balancer and gave you a detailed introduction to the topic of load balancing in Azure. Remember that this service is not the only Azure component that can be used for load balancing. However, as we’re focusing on low-level infrastructure and administrative tasks in general, being familiar with the basics of Azure Load Balancer is crucial to be able to effectively manage resources in Azure. The topics that were presented in this chapter (setting up Azure Load Balancer, its configuration, health probes, and load balancing rules) will come in handy when you’re setting up IaaS-based infrastructure in your projects.

This was also the last chapter of Part 2 of this book. The next chapter will begin Part 3 – Administration of Azure Virtual Machines. Everything you’ve learned so far will be extremely important in the upcoming chapters, as lots of things related to Azure VMs are rooted in their networking components...