Creating a local network gateway in the Azure portal
When a Site-to-Site connection is created, we have to provide configuration for both sides of the connection—that is, both Azure and on-premises. Although a local network gateway is created in Azure, it represents your local (on-premises) network and holds configuration information on your local network settings. It's an essential component for creating the VPN connection that is needed to create a Site-to-Site connection between the virtual network and the local network.
Getting ready
Before you start, open a web browser and go to the Azure portal at https://portal.azure.com.
How to do it…
In order to create a new local network gateway, the following steps are required:
- In the Azure portal, select Create a resource and choose Local network gateway under the Networking services (or search for
local network gatewayin the search bar). - The parameters that we need to provide are Name, IP address...
