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Traffic Manager In Microsoft Azure

In this article, we will discuss the traffic manager in Microsoft Azure.

Purpose

Azure Traffic Manager is a cloud-based service provided by Microsoft Azure that allows you to control and distribute incoming traffic across multiple endpoints or instances of your applications deployed in different regions or environments.

Traffic Routing Methods

These are the traffic routing methods: -

Priority → When the routing method is Priority, the service endpoints are stored as per the priority. The primary service endpoint is of top priority. If the primary service endpoint is unavailable, the traffic is redirected to the secondary endpoint, and so on
Weighted → When the routing method is Weighted, each service endpoint has allocated a weight. The value is between 1 to 1000. The traffic is redirected based on the allocated weight
Performance → When the routing method is Performance, the traffic is routed to the endpoint closest to the user location
Geographic → When the routing method is Geographic, the request originating from the particular geography is routed to the endpoint of that geography
Multivalue → This routing method is selected when IPv4/IPv6 addresses as endpoint
Subnet →This routing method is used to map the sets of the end-user IP address

How To Create A Traffic Manager Profile?

To create the traffic manager profile, click on the Traffic Controllers service.

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The following screen will appear. Click on the Traffic Manager menu on the left-hand side.

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In the above image, click on the + Create button. The following screen will appear.

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Enter the details and click on the Create button. The traffic profile is created.

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Creation Of App Service

For this article, we will create the following app services.

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Create Endpoints

To create the endpoint, go to the traffic manager profiles. Click on the Endpoints on the left-hand side menu.

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In the above image, click on the + Add button. The following window will appear.

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Enter the endpoint and click on the Add button. The endpoint is created.

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Posted By -	Karan Gupta

Posted On -	Friday, June 30, 2023

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