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Azure Service Manager (ASM) is the old control plane of Azure responsible for creating, managing, deleting VMs and performing other control plane operations, and has been in use since 2011. ASM is retiring in August 2024, and customers can now migrate to Azure Resource Manager (ARM) . ARM provides a
The backend pool is a critical component of the load balancer. The backend pool defines the group of resources that serve traffic for a given load-balancing rule. There are two ways of configuring a backend pool: Network Interface Card (NIC) IP address To preallocate a backend pool with an IP addres
Azure Virtual Network is a fundamental building block for your private network in Azure. It enables Azure resources to securely communicate with each other, the internet, and on-premises networks. A virtual network is similar to a traditional network that you'd operate in your own data center. Howev
An Azure Load Balancer health probe is a feature that detects the health status of your application instances. It sends a request to the instances to check if they're available and responding to requests. The health probe can be configured to use different protocols such as TCP, HTTP, or HTTPS. It's
Azure Storage encrypts all data in a storage account at rest. By default, data is encrypted with Microsoft-managed keys. For additional control over encryption keys, you can manage your own keys. Customer-managed keys must be stored in an Azure Key Vault or in an Azure Key Vault Managed Hardware Sec
In the contemporary landscape of cloud-native development, the persistence of hard-coded credentials remains a staggering architectural failure. Azure Key Vault serves as the definitive mitigation…
In the modern cloud landscape, hardcoded credentials are a liability that no professional developer should tolerate. Azure Key Vault serves as the definitive solution for…
Cost allocation, as defined by the FinOps Foundation , is the set of practices to divide up a consolidated invoice. Or, to bill the people responsible for its various component parts. It's the process of assigning costs to different groups within an organization based on their consumption of resourc
In this article, you'll learn how to configure a Virtual Machine Scale Set with an existing Azure Load Balancer. With an existing virtual network and standard sku load balancer, you can deploy a Virtual Machine Scale Set with a few clicks in the Azure portal, or with a few lines of code in the Azure