Private endpoints concept in Azure - Mini Project: Build & Apply

Azure Private Endpoints Setup

📖 Scenario: You are setting up a secure connection to an Azure Storage Account using a private endpoint. This ensures that traffic between your virtual network and the storage account stays within the Microsoft Azure backbone network, not going over the public internet.

🎯 Goal: Create an Azure Private Endpoint resource connected to an existing Storage Account within a specified virtual network and subnet.

📋 What You'll Learn

Create a resource group variable with the exact name resource_group_name set to "myResourceGroup".

Create a variable storage_account_name with the exact value "mystorageaccount".

Create a variable vnet_name with the exact value "myVNet".

Create a variable subnet_name with the exact value "mySubnet".

Create a Private Endpoint resource named myPrivateEndpoint linked to the storage account and subnet.

💡 Why This Matters

🌍 Real World

Private endpoints are used to securely connect to Azure services without exposing them to the public internet, improving security and compliance.

💼 Career

Understanding private endpoints is essential for cloud engineers and architects to design secure network architectures in Azure.

1

Define Azure resource variables

Create variables called resource_group_name, storage_account_name, vnet_name, and subnet_name with these exact values: "myResourceGroup", "mystorageaccount", "myVNet", and "mySubnet" respectively.

Azure

# Define resource group and resource names
# Your code here

Need a hint?

Use simple assignment statements to create the variables with the exact names and values.

2

Create Private Endpoint configuration dictionary

Create a dictionary called private_endpoint_config with keys "name", "resource_group", "subnet_id", and "private_link_service_connections". Set "name" to "myPrivateEndpoint", "resource_group" to resource_group_name, "subnet_id" to f"/subscriptions/your-subscription-id/resourceGroups/{resource_group_name}/providers/Microsoft.Network/virtualNetworks/{vnet_name}/subnets/{subnet_name}", and "private_link_service_connections" to a list with one dictionary containing "name" as "storageConnection", "private_link_service_id" as f"/subscriptions/your-subscription-id/resourceGroups/{resource_group_name}/providers/Microsoft.Storage/storageAccounts/{storage_account_name}", and "group_ids" as a list with "blob".

Azure

resource_group_name = "myResourceGroup"
storage_account_name = "mystorageaccount"
vnet_name = "myVNet"
subnet_name = "mySubnet"

# Create private_endpoint_config dictionary
# Your code here

Need a hint?

Use an f-string to build the subnet_id and private_link_service_id paths with the variables.

3

Define a function to deploy the Private Endpoint

Create a function called deploy_private_endpoint that takes config as a parameter and returns a dictionary with keys "status" set to "deployed" and "details" set to the config parameter.

Azure

resource_group_name = "myResourceGroup"
storage_account_name = "mystorageaccount"
vnet_name = "myVNet"
subnet_name = "mySubnet"

private_endpoint_config = {
    "name": "myPrivateEndpoint",
    "resource_group": resource_group_name,
    "subnet_id": f"/subscriptions/your-subscription-id/resourceGroups/{resource_group_name}/providers/Microsoft.Network/virtualNetworks/{vnet_name}/subnets/{subnet_name}",
    "private_link_service_connections": [
        {
            "name": "storageConnection",
            "private_link_service_id": f"/subscriptions/your-subscription-id/resourceGroups/{resource_group_name}/providers/Microsoft.Storage/storageAccounts/{storage_account_name}",
            "group_ids": ["blob"]
        }
    ]
}

# Define deploy_private_endpoint function
# Your code here

Need a hint?

Define a simple function that returns a dictionary with the deployment status and the passed config.

4

Call the deployment function with the configuration

Create a variable called deployment_result and assign it the result of calling deploy_private_endpoint with private_endpoint_config as the argument.

Azure

resource_group_name = "myResourceGroup"
storage_account_name = "mystorageaccount"
vnet_name = "myVNet"
subnet_name = "mySubnet"

private_endpoint_config = {
    "name": "myPrivateEndpoint",
    "resource_group": resource_group_name,
    "subnet_id": f"/subscriptions/your-subscription-id/resourceGroups/{resource_group_name}/providers/Microsoft.Network/virtualNetworks/{vnet_name}/subnets/{subnet_name}",
    "private_link_service_connections": [
        {
            "name": "storageConnection",
            "private_link_service_id": f"/subscriptions/your-subscription-id/resourceGroups/{resource_group_name}/providers/Microsoft.Storage/storageAccounts/{storage_account_name}",
            "group_ids": ["blob"]
        }
    ]
}

def deploy_private_endpoint(config):
    return {"status": "deployed", "details": config}

# Assign deployment_result by calling deploy_private_endpoint
# Your code here

Need a hint?

Call the function with the config dictionary and assign the result to deployment_result.