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Published inFeb 2021
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Stéphane Eyskens
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Stéphane Eyskens has a developer background and became a solution architect about a decade ago. As a cloud subject matter expert, he contributed to many digital transformation programs, helping organizations get better results out of their cloud investments. As an MVP, he is an active contributor to the Microsoft Tech Community and has worked on multiple open source projects available on GitHub. Stéphane is also a Pluralsight assessment author as well as the author of multiple books and online recordings.
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Ed Price is a Senior Program Manager in Engineering at Microsoft, with an MBA in technology management. He leads Microsoft's efforts to publish Reference Architectures on the Azure Architecture Center. Previously, he drove datacenter deployment and customer feedback, and he ran Microsoft's customer feedback programs for Azure development, Service Fabric, IoT, Functions, and Visual Studio. He was also a technical writer at Microsoft for 6 years and helped lead TechNet Wiki. He is the co-author of five books, including Learn to Program with Small Basic and ASP.NET Core 5 for Beginners from Packt.
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Zooming in on networking

Networking is one of the essential foundations of any Azure landing zone. Figure 3.2 shows the various connectivity options available in Azure:

Figure 3.2 – Zooming in on networking

Figure 3.2 – Zooming in on networking

We introduced the landing zone concept in Chapter 2, Solution Architecture. We briefly explained that the purpose of a landing zone is to structure, govern, and rule the Azure platform for the assets that will be hosted on it. Controlling network flows is one of the key governance aspects. Controlling the network means mastering internal and external traffic, inbound and outbound, flow logs, and so on. This is a vast topic and an important challenge. Let's now dive deeper. The network section has five top-level groups:

  • DNS
  • MOST COMMON ARCHITECTURE
  • DC CONNECTIVITY
  • ZONING
  • ROUTING

In the DNS section of Figure 3.2, we see two DNS services, which are public and private DNS zones:

  • Azure DNS zones help you...
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Stéphane Eyskens

Stéphane Eyskens has a developer background and became a solution architect about a decade ago. As a cloud subject matter expert, he contributed to many digital transformation programs, helping organizations get better results out of their cloud investments. As an MVP, he is an active contributor to the Microsoft Tech Community and has worked on multiple open source projects available on GitHub. Stéphane is also a Pluralsight assessment author as well as the author of multiple books and online recordings.
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Ed Price

Ed Price is a Senior Program Manager in Engineering at Microsoft, with an MBA in technology management. He leads Microsoft's efforts to publish Reference Architectures on the Azure Architecture Center. Previously, he drove datacenter deployment and customer feedback, and he ran Microsoft's customer feedback programs for Azure development, Service Fabric, IoT, Functions, and Visual Studio. He was also a technical writer at Microsoft for 6 years and helped lead TechNet Wiki. He is the co-author of five books, including Learn to Program with Small Basic and ASP.NET Core 5 for Beginners from Packt.
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