Thoughts from the clouds
Welcome to the second post in the Private Link Reality Bites series! Before we begin, let me recap the existing episodes of the series: Private Link reality bite #1: endpoints are an illusion (control plane vs data plane) Private Link reality bite #2: your routes might be lying (routing in virtual network gateways) Private Link … Continue reading Private Link reality bites – Your routes might be lying
I have recently expanded my SDWAN in hub-and-spoke networks design guide to include SDWAN-to-firewall routing. Initially I didn’t have this point, but recent conversations have made me realize that not everybody understand this. The main difficulty in this topic is related to the fact that you cannot inspect the effective routes of your Virtual Network … Continue reading Do not let ExpressRoute, VPN and SDWAN traffic bypass your firewall
If you have ever used Azure, you probably have used one of these Virtual Network Gateways too: whether it is to connect your branches and headquarters with Azure via IPsec VPN or ExpressRoute, or to provide connectivity to your mobile workers or external partners through Point-to-Site VPNs. In this post I will go deep on … Continue reading Virtual Network Gateways routing in Azure
I have recently had a couple of recent conversations that have made me reconsider the way we traditionally implement the hub and spoke Virtual Network design in Azure, which has some limitations. The idea is to introduce a relatively simple but powerful modification to the design that achieves these objectives: Granular control of prefixes advertised … Continue reading Azure Hub And Spoke 2.0
Azure Firewall is a fantastic product: oversimplifying, an architecture that scales out great, provides traffic forwarding and security in Azure, and is very easy to integrate in a network. Some times you need to manipulate the default routing of Azure VNets, and Azure Route Server offers an invaluable tool for that. However, Azure Route Server … Continue reading Azure Firewall’s sidekick to join the BGP superheroes
