>> Hello there, and thank you very much for joining us
today in this new Azure Portal How To Video. Today we
learn how to choose the
right load balancing solution for
you in the Azure Portal. And for that, we have Danial
Shakeri, who’s going to show us how to do that. So,
thank you very much for joining us today, Danial.
>> Thanks, Leon, for having me. Yeah, we know that like
load balancing can always
be difficult to knowing like which
one of the many services
right for you is always a difficult
challenge, so we have this
new solution. So, let's just jump
into the demo.
>> Awesome. Let's see it.
>> So, let's jump right in. If you start searching for load
balancing, you'll notice that we have this new load
balancing help me choose feature. Now off the bat in this
feature, we wanted the customer to be able to identify
what are the different options, load balancing options in
Azure today and from a high level, what are the
differences between them? And that's what we try to
capture in these tiles with the three bullet notes here
today. Now if you want to learn more about any one of
these resources, a great place to start is by just clicking on
the title. You'll notice that we have a plethora of links
available for you, including a link to the high level
documentation itself, but also highlighting the key features
for this particular service, security and monitoring, since
that’s essential to the lifecycle of a product, some
reference architecture, so you can essentially see how this
service might fit into your architecture, and pricing, since
we know that's always important.
Now all of this is a great place to start to learn about these
resources. Maybe if you want a more guided experience,
we also have this little
questionnaire up here. Now you can
essentially start answering the question about hey what
service are you trying to
create? So, does your application
use HTTP/HTTPS? You'll
notice if I select yes, we’ll remove
some of the actual tile
options available to really start
filtering down to what your particular environment needs.
So as we continue answering this question, like is your
application public,? Let's
say my application is public. It’s
also deployed in multiple regions. Performance
acceleration is always important to both customers and
me, so let's say yes here. Do you want SSL offloading or
application layer processing per request? Now, at this point,
I want to highlight that if these questions ever become a
little bit too technical or you actually don't know potentially
what SSL offloading is, for example, what you can always
do is actually click on these services themselves. And if
we're going to ask you a
question about it here, most likely
we will actually have some links to documentation here.
So if you want to go learn more about SSL offloading, you
can always click on like this feature here or for front door
this feature here. But I know my application and I know
what this is, so I'm going to go ahead and select no for
this. And is your application hosted on PaaS? I'm going to
say yes. And at this point, you'll notice that we have
recommended a particular service and this is a great
opportunity for you to go click on reference architecture to
go see how this particular service might fit in your global
environment. Now, let's say that you find this like guided
view a little bit helpful, but you actually want to dig in a
little bit deeper and actually see what the differences are
between the four different services available. And that's
where the service comparison comes in. The service
comparison is a grid comparing the different services
across some of like the most important features. So, again
for load balancing, some of the high level things, so there
can support protocols for
your application. Does it provide
private load balancing or global load balancing? What are
the routing policies, for example? And like what
environment does it support and on and on. So as new
features come in, we’ll also start like updating this list as
well to make sure that you will always be able to
differentiate which one of these services does well.
Now finally, let's say you want to go learn more about
these services, but you want a bit more of a guided
experience versus the
experience today where you can just
go click on the documentation. That's where the tutorial
comes in. So, here you will notice that we have a bunch of
different MS Learn courses available that will give a more
guided experience and will
be a little bit more in depth. So
if you want to go learn about application gateway, you can
always come here and to the MSR resource and just go
ahead and actually start this module.
Finally, we also have some YouTube videos down here as
well. If you want like
something quick to learn, you can
always again like if you want to create a load balancer, you
can click on this video to kind of like get shorter videos as
well. And we will again continue to be updating this as
more MS Learn resources and videos come up.
Now the final thing I want to point out is here on this side,
you'll notice that we have
like the different load balancing
services. And if I select on any one of them, you'll notice
that this is the browse experience today. Now a feature
that is not completely out yet, but we're hoping to get out
later this year is we're actually going to direct all the
browse experiences for these four different services to
here. So, for example, in
the future what will happen is if
you actually type in load balancer and select this guy, it
will automatically direct you here. So that way the
overview and all the great information it provides will
always be readily accessible whenever you're actually
managing your load balancing solutions.
So, that is about it. I hope you guys can play with this
service and find the right load balancer for you.
Thanks.
>> Thank you very much, Danial. This was great.
Thanks every one of you for watching. Please try this out
and let us know what you think. Let us know if you could
find the right load balancing solution with what we just
showed you. Leave us a comment in the comment section,
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