Load balancing with Azure Front Door

In Azure Front Door, load balancing is configured using three connected components, as follows:

• Frontends
• Backend pools
• Routing rules

Each component can be added individually and reused for improved flexibility. Before we dive into the details, we need to provision our own instance of the service so that we can start configuring it. Here’s what we should do:

1. In the Azure portal, click on the + Create a resource button and search for Front Door. The option to select is Front Door and CDN profiles, as illustrated in the following screenshot:

Figure 22.2 – Using Azure Marketplace for Azure Front Door provisioning

2. Now, click the Create button so the next screen is displayed with a few options available, as we can see here:

Figure 22.3 – Selecting an offering

3. As you can see, we can either create an Azure Front Door instance here or...