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:

1. In the Azure portal, select Create a resource and choose Traffic Manager Profile under the Networking services (or search for Traffic Manager Profile in the search bar).
2. 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

3. Note that under the routing methods...