Private Link reality bites – service endpoints vs private link

Welcome to the sixth post in the Private Link Reality Bites series! Before we begin, let me recap the existing episodes of the series: This question is as old as Private Link itself. Countless blog posts have already been written about it, not to mention this brief answer in the Private Link FAQ. Still, there are some … Continue reading Private Link reality bites – service endpoints vs private link

Private Link reality bites: NXDomainRedirect

Welcome to the fifth post in the Private Link Reality Bites series! Before we begin, let me recap the existing episodes of the series: In this post with such a cryptic title I am going to cover one of the newest features in Azure DNS, which solves one of the oldest problems with Azure DNS and Private … Continue reading Private Link reality bites: NXDomainRedirect

Private Link reality bites: what’s my source IP?

Welcome to the third post in the Private Link Reality Bites series! Before we begin, let me recap the existing episodes of the series: Big shoutout here to my esteemed colleague and oracle for Azure Networking Daniel Mauser. If you don’t know his GitHub site, make sure you check it out! Thanks as well to … Continue reading Private Link reality bites: what’s my source IP?

Private Link reality bites – Your routes might be lying

Welcome to the second post in the Private Link Reality Bites series! Before we begin, let me recap the existing episodes of the series: In this post I am going to explore something that silently has started to work in a different way as it used to: routing in the GatewaySubnet, or how to send … Continue reading Private Link reality bites – Your routes might be lying

Private Link reality bites – Private endpoints are an illusion

Welcome to this new series of blog posts in which I will be explaining some not-so-well-known facts about Azure Private Link and some associated technologies! This idea is born from the fact that I have been helping some colleagues and customers lately with some questions around Private Link, and that has made me realize that … Continue reading Private Link reality bites – Private endpoints are an illusion

Taxonomy of Azure PaaS service access

Azure PaaS service networking is quite a complex landscape to navigate. Documentation in Azure about this topic is located in different areas (under Networking and each specific PaaS service), and sometimes using inconsistent terminology. My goal in this blog post is setting a classification of PaaS services that can be used to navigate this complexity. … Continue reading Taxonomy of Azure PaaS service access

DRY Terraform code for Private Link and DNS

After last week’s almost-philosophical post on network complexity, let’s move on to more mundane tasks. Today I will focus on how to write efficient Terraform code to connect private endpoints and DNS, without having to copy/paste literally hundreds of lines. First things first: what the heck am I talking about? Private endpoints are a way … Continue reading DRY Terraform code for Private Link and DNS

Calling Logic Apps from Data Factory securely

This one is going to be about a setup I recently tested with a customer: an Azure Data Factory pipeline needs to send email notifications via Azure Logic Apps, and it needs to do so by securing the network between the Integration Runtime and the Logic App that sends the email. The challenge here is … Continue reading Calling Logic Apps from Data Factory securely

Azure Networking is not like your on-prem network

I often get asked about the differences between Azure Networking and a traditional, on-premises network. I have been hit with a flu the last few days, so I had some time to think about this, and I decided to start writing whatever thoughts were not actually the result of the fever. In this post I … Continue reading Azure Networking is not like your on-prem network

Azure DNS Private Resolver without VNet Peerings

As you might already know, Azure DNS Private Resolver is an Azure service that support DNS forwarding between Azure and on-premises DNS servers. It is very useful to provide Azure DNS resolution to on-premises clients (for example to access private endpoints), or to provide on-premises DNS resolution to Azure clients (to access on-prem resources). Last … Continue reading Azure DNS Private Resolver without VNet Peerings