Thoughts from the clouds
This is a continuation from my previous post Azure Route Server route maps: more than a feature, where I discussed some of the patterns not supported by route maps in Azure Route Server (ARS), such as VNet-to-VNet VPN connections and BGP peers in another hub (although these ones might be addressed by the time route … Continue reading The square design with hub-and-spoke
If you have been following the Azure Networking space lately, you will probably have noticed the global preview of a new feature: route maps for Azure Route Server. Others have already blogged about this; for example, make sure to read Simon Painter’s blog post about it here. I finally had some time to try it, … Continue reading Azure Route Server route maps: more than a feature
Disclaimer: this post is going to be quite geeky. So this is not the kind of post you want to read if you don’t need this stuff. But hey, I needed to tell someone after getting this to work, plus this might be useful for somebody else, since I struggled to find these details out … Continue reading Simulating VPN sites in Azure with Ubuntu 24.04 and StrongSwan
Monitoring is one of those underrated disciplines: everybody tells you to do it, but nobody tells you exactly how. As a consequence, there are many different approaches and few concrete recommendations. Before continuing, a word of caution: I am not going to cover introductory topics in this post. If you are not familiar with Virtual … Continue reading Monitoring Azure Networks with Alerts
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 see more and more organizations deploying workloads across different clouds, and some times those workloads need to communicate between each other. There are multiple options to connect clouds together, the cheapest being an encrypted network tunnel over the public Internet, also known as IPsec VPN. All clouds support deploying your favorite network vendor as … Continue reading Tunnels Between Clouds
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