Tag: user defined route

What is the Azure Virtual Network Routing Appliance?

by erjosito

Some weeks ago, Microsoft released documentation about the Virtual Network Routing Appliance (VNRA) without a lot of context, what generated a healthy confusion in the Azure Networking practitioner community. In the Azure updates page, the following was written: Azure Virtual Network routing appliance offers private connectivity for workloads across virtual networks. Using specialized hardware, it … Continue reading What is the Azure Virtual Network Routing Appliance?

Private Link reality bites – Your routes might be lying

by erjosito

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

Azure Route Server: to encap or not to encap, that is the question

by erjosito

Azure Route Server is a very powerful tool that thas been recently brought to the Azure Networking toolset: it offers a BGP API so that virtual machines can communicate with a VNet to learn and advertise routes. I have written some articles about Route Server in the past on how to achieve certain scenarios, but … Continue reading Azure Route Server: to encap or not to encap, that is the question

Azure as Internet breakout from on-premises with Route Server

by erjosito

This is not a topology I would define as “best practice”, or one that I see in every Azure deployment out there, but I would certainly not describe it as exotic either. In this design, organizations want to leverage Azure as Internet breakout for their on-premises systems. Potentially because they do not have a good … Continue reading Azure as Internet breakout from on-premises with Route Server