Configuring Traffic Manager with load balancers
Combining Traffic Manager with load balancers is often done to provide maximum availability. Load balancers are limited to providing high availability to a set of resources located in the same region. This gives us an advantage if a single resource fails, as we have multiple instances of a resource. But what if a complete region fails? Load balancers can't handle resources in multiple regions, but we can combine load balancers with Traffic Manager to provide even better availability with resources across Azure regions. In this recipe, we'll configure Traffic Manager to work with load balancers.
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 set up Traffic Manager with a load balancer, we must do the following:
- In the Azure portal, locate the load balancer and verify that it has the assigned IP address as covered...