Creating a public load balancer

The second type of load balancer in Azure is a public load balancer. The main difference is that a public load balancer is assigned a public IP address in the frontend, and all requests come over the internet. The requests are then distributed to the endpoints in the backend.

Getting ready

Before you start, open the browser and go to the Azure portal via https://portal.azure.com.

How to do it...

In order to create a new public load balancer with the Azure portal, we must follow these steps:

1. In the Azure portal, select Create a resource and choose Load Balancer under Networking services (or search for Load Balancer in the search bar).
2. In the new pane, we must select a Subscription option and a Resource group option for where the load balancer is to be created. Then, we must provide information for Name, Region, Type, and SKU. In this case, we select Public for Type to deploy a public load balancer. and set SKU to Standard. Selecting...