What is Azure Virtual Networks?
Azure Virtual Networks (VNets) are the heart of Azure’s networking backbone. Virtualized networks allow Azure resources like virtual machines (VMs) to securely communicate with each other, the internet, or the on-premises network. VNet is the isolated network segment within the Azure cloud that underpins organizations to implement their own private IPs and subnets, allowing them to deploy resources in that setup.
Key definitions of Azure VNets
- Azure Virtual Network: Azure Virtual Network is a logical network in the cloud, on which you can launch Azure resources. enables Azure resources to securely communicate with each other, the internet, and on-premises networks.
- Subnets: They are the divisions in a VNet which provide organization and segregation to network resources. Better manage IP address space and network traffic.
- Network security groups: Network Security Groups act as a virtual firewall to control traffic between and across Azure resources. They let you define rules around what source/destination IP can connect to which port with which protocol
- Azure Virtual Network Manager: Microsoft Azure provides a tool for managing virtual networks and their associated resources within the cloud called an Azure virtual network manager.
What is Azure Virtual Network Manager
If you think about it, in the big picture of cloud computing, network management is a critical functionality for proper operation and communication signaling across disparate nodes. Of course, Microsoft Azure offers you quite a bit more than just this and that is what we are going to explore shortly but again, the topic of Azure Virtual Network Manager would always be one of the basic tool for managing virtual networks. In this post, I will go through everything you should know about Azure Virtual Network Manager. Including what it is, the features and benefits, typical use cases and best practices to ensure that you use this tool in a manner that befits your workloads.