What is a load balancer used for?

A load balancer is a device that acts as a reverse proxy and distributes network or application traffic across a number of servers. Load balancers are used to increase capacity (concurrent users) and reliability of applications.

What are the load balancers available in Azure?

Azure load balancers come in two varieties. There are public load balancers and internal load balancers, which are also known as private load balancers. A public load balancer is used when you need to load balance incoming internet traffic to your virtual machines.

What is Azure load balancing rule?

Load-balancing rules – A load balancer rule is used to define how incoming traffic is distributed to the all the instances within the backend pool. A load-balancing rule maps a given frontend IP configuration and port to multiple backend IP addresses and ports.

How many load balancers are in Azure?

three load balancers
There are three load balancers in Azure: Azure Load Balancer, Internal Load Balancer (ILB), and Traffic Manager.

Is Azure load balancer PaaS or IaaS?

Microsoft Azure offers load balancing services for virtual machines (IaaS) and cloud services (PaaS) hosted in the Microsoft Azure cloud. Load balancing allows your application to scale and provides resiliency to application failures among other benefits.

What is the difference between application gateway and load balancer in Azure?

Load Balancer is free (unless you wish to use multiple Virtual IPs). Application Gateway is billed per-hour, and has two tiers, depending on features you need (with/without WAF) Load Balancer only supports endpoints hosted in Azure. Application Gateway can support any routable IP address.

How do you do load balancing in Azure?

[Demo] Steps To Create An Azure Load Balancer

1. Create Azure load balancer.
2. Create a virtual network.
3. Create a backend pool.
4. Create health probes.
5. Create a load balancer rule.
6. Setup two new windows VM.
7. Install IIS for Testing.
8. Add virtual machines to the backend pool.

How do I create a load balancer in Azure?

In this article

1. Prerequisites.
2. Sign in to Azure.
3. Create the virtual network.
4. Create NAT gateway.
5. Create load balancer.
6. Create virtual machines.
7. Install IIS.
8. Test the load balancer.