Creating a virtual network gateway in the Azure portal

After a local network gateway is created, we need to create a virtual network gateway in order to create a VPN connection between the local and Azure networks. As a local network gateway holds information on the local network, the virtual network gateway holds information for the Azure VNet that we are trying to connect to.

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 virtual network gateway, the following steps are required:

1. In the Azure portal, select Create a resource and choose Virtual network gateway under the Networking services (or search for virtual network gateway in the search bar).
2. Everything is done in a single pane, but for the purpose of better visibility, I'm going to break it down into two sections. In the first section, we need to provide Subscription, Name, Region, Gateway type...