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Microsoft Azure - Create Load balancer


  1. Refer this article before starting the configuration
  2. Login to your Azure subscription using portal.azure.com
  3. Click the Portal menu (hamburger icon on the top left of the screen) and locate Virtual Network








3. Click on Create load balancer button and configure the parameters as below:





  • Select the correct subscription (if like me, you have more than one)
  • Select the Resource group (Create new, if you don't already have one created)
  • Name of the LB
  • Region (Azure region where the LB would be created, physically)
  • Type : Public OR Internal. (Azure states: You can use internal load balancers to balance traffic from private IP addresses. Public load balancers can balance traffic originating from public IP addresses.) I am going to use this LB, to access the backend resources via public Internet and hence I am selecting "Public". If I select "Internal", you just have to select the Virtual Network, in which the LB would exist.
  • SKU : Basic or Standard (There are key differences between these two SKUs with Standard SKU being better than the Basic one, w.r.t. SLA, backend pool size, redundancy etc. .. However, since this is my lab environment, I don't really care about these.) The list of differences can be found here.












4. Click Review + Create. Once the deployment is complete, you should receive the following output









5. Click on the "NEW-PUBLIC-IP" to get the IP address allocated, as the FrontEnd IP of the LB.






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