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Kamil Mrzygłód
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Kamil Mrzygłód is a technical lead and technology advisor, working with multiple companies on designing and implementing Azure-based systems and platforms. He's a former Microsoft Azure Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) and certified trainer, who shares his knowledge via various channels, including conference speeches and open source projects and contributions. Kamil lives in Poland with his two cats and one dog, dedicating some of his time to video games, cooking, and traveling.
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The differences between public and internal load balancers

At the very beginning of this chapter, we mentioned that you can assign both private and public IP addresses to your instance of Azure Load Balancer. Depending on your configuration, we may talk about one of two types of load balancer:

  • A public load balancer, which is used to provide outbound connections for VMs that don’t have public IP addresses themselves.
  • An internal (or private) load balancer (ILB), which is used to handle load balancing within a virtual network. This is helpful in hybrid infrastructure scenarios where on-premises infrastructure is involved as well.

Important note

An ILB can also be used in cloud-only scenarios, so there’s no need to have an on-premises setup integrated with your cloud environment.

Both types of load balancers can coexist, as shown in the following diagram:

Figure 4.1 – Two types of load balancers in the same network

Figure 4.1 – Two types of load balancers in the same network...

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Kamil Mrzygłód is a technical lead and technology advisor, working with multiple companies on designing and implementing Azure-based systems and platforms. He's a former Microsoft Azure Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) and certified trainer, who shares his knowledge via various channels, including conference speeches and open source projects and contributions. Kamil lives in Poland with his two cats and one dog, dedicating some of his time to video games, cooking, and traveling.
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