Azure Front Door overview - Mini Project: Build & Apply

Azure Front Door overview

📖 Scenario: You are setting up a global web application that needs fast and secure delivery to users worldwide. You want to use Azure Front Door to manage traffic routing, improve performance, and protect your app.

🎯 Goal: Build a basic Azure Front Door configuration with a frontend endpoint, backend pool, and routing rule to direct traffic from the frontend to the backend.

📋 What You'll Learn

Create an Azure Front Door resource named myFrontDoor

Add a frontend endpoint named myFrontend with hostname myfrontend.azurefd.net

Create a backend pool named myBackendPool with one backend myBackend pointing to myapp.azurewebsites.net

Add a routing rule named myRoutingRule that routes traffic from myFrontend to myBackendPool

💡 Why This Matters

🌍 Real World

Azure Front Door is used to deliver web applications globally with high availability, low latency, and security.

💼 Career

Understanding Azure Front Door setup is important for cloud engineers and architects managing scalable and secure web applications.

1

Create the Azure Front Door resource

Create an Azure Front Door resource named myFrontDoor using the Azure CLI command az network front-door create with the resource group myResourceGroup.

Azure

# Your code here to create Azure Front Door resource named myFrontDoor

Need a hint?

Use az network front-door create with --name myFrontDoor and --resource-group myResourceGroup.

2

Add a frontend endpoint

Add a frontend endpoint named myFrontend with hostname myfrontend.azurefd.net to the Azure Front Door resource myFrontDoor using the Azure CLI command az network front-door frontend-endpoint create.

Azure

az network front-door create --resource-group myResourceGroup --name myFrontDoor
# Your code here to add frontend endpoint myFrontend with hostname myfrontend.azurefd.net

Need a hint?

Use az network front-door frontend-endpoint create with --name myFrontend and --host-name myfrontend.azurefd.net.

3

Create a backend pool with one backend

Create a backend pool named myBackendPool with one backend named myBackend pointing to myapp.azurewebsites.net using the Azure CLI command az network front-door backend-pool create and az network front-door backend-pool backend add.

Azure

az network front-door create --resource-group myResourceGroup --name myFrontDoor
az network front-door frontend-endpoint create --resource-group myResourceGroup --front-door-name myFrontDoor --name myFrontend --host-name myfrontend.azurefd.net
# Your code here to create backend pool myBackendPool and add backend myBackend pointing to myapp.azurewebsites.net

Need a hint?

First create the backend pool with az network front-door backend-pool create, then add the backend with az network front-door backend-pool backend add.

4

Add a routing rule

Add a routing rule named myRoutingRule that routes traffic from the frontend endpoint myFrontend to the backend pool myBackendPool using the Azure CLI command az network front-door routing-rule create.

Azure

az network front-door create --resource-group myResourceGroup --name myFrontDoor
az network front-door frontend-endpoint create --resource-group myResourceGroup --front-door-name myFrontDoor --name myFrontend --host-name myfrontend.azurefd.net
az network front-door backend-pool create --resource-group myResourceGroup --front-door-name myFrontDoor --name myBackendPool
az network front-door backend-pool backend add --resource-group myResourceGroup --front-door-name myFrontDoor --pool-name myBackendPool --address myapp.azurewebsites.net --name myBackend
# Your code here to add routing rule myRoutingRule from myFrontend to myBackendPool

Need a hint?

Use az network front-door routing-rule create with --name myRoutingRule, --frontend-endpoints myFrontend, and --backend-pool myBackendPool.