Application Gateway for Containers: Web Application Firewall support (5)

This post will explore the new support in Azure Application Gateway for Containers (AGC) for Web Application Firewall (WAF) as documented in https://aka.ms/agc/waf. This blog is part of a series: 1. Introduction to AGC architecture and components 2. Troubleshooting 3. Resource model expansion: end-to-end TLS 4. Overlay networking and VNet Flow Logs (this post) 5. Web Application Firewall (this post) 6. … Continue reading Application Gateway for Containers: Web Application Firewall support (5)

Going beyond 8 peers in Azure Route Server

After a good while without posting anything, I finally decided to slowly recommence again. This first post is about a little BGP trick that may help you increase the scale of Azure Route Server. Typically the maximum number of 8 BGP peers should be enough for most designs, but if you happen to need to … Continue reading Going beyond 8 peers in Azure Route Server

VNet Flow Logs Recipes (part 2): fine-tune your security rules

Right when VNet Flow Logs were launched I blogged about some recipes that help to extract insights out of the different information fields contained in the Flow Logs. After working with VNet Flow Logs and Traffic Analytics for a while now, I thought I could share some additional tips and tricks, this time focusing on … Continue reading VNet Flow Logs Recipes (part 2): fine-tune your security rules

Application Gateway for Containers: a not-so-gentle intro (2)

Have you ever have the feeling that something that should be easy turns into a mine field when you start working on it? I seem to be a specialist in not reading the required documentation and making rookie mistakes. Fortunately, Application Gateway for Containers (AGC) offers enough troubleshooting tools so that I could identify and … Continue reading Application Gateway for Containers: a not-so-gentle intro (2)

Private Link reality bites: Azure Firewall app rules

Welcome to the fourth 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 reality bite … Continue reading Private Link reality bites: Azure Firewall app rules

Interregional traffic in hub-and-spoke

In Azure you have two main ways of managing your virtual network connectivity: self-managed hub-and-spoke and Virtual WAN. Virtual WAN is a solution where Microsoft manages part of your virtual networks for you, and in exchange it gives you some benefits such as any-to-any routing out of the box. However, what if you need that … Continue reading Interregional traffic in hub-and-spoke