Securing Your App Service with a Vnet

My last post was on integrating your Azure App Service with a virtual network (VNet). This post is the other way around. It’s on how to put your App Service in a VNet, or rather, behind a VNet. If you want to put your Azure App Service inside a VNet, you’ll have to look for the App Service Environment (ASE). This is an offering of dedicated machines that are placed inside a VNet and you’re paying a rather hefty fee for this. Read more →

Vnet Integration for Your App Service

It’s always a good idea to secure the resources in your Azure subscriptions. One way to do this is by using virtual networks. In a lot of cases, you will put SQL Azure servers, storage accounts and, other services in a virtual network. This will make sure the services can’t be accessed from the public internet unless you explicitly say so. There are many more advantages to putting services in a virtual network, which I won’t be covering in this post. Read more →

IPv4 properties of VPN connection does not work

While I was setting up a VPN connection to my Azure Virtual Network I wanted to uncheck the option to use the Default Gateway of the connected network. Normally you’d do this by clicking on the Properties button of the selected protocol. However, there appears to be a bug in Windows 10 and VPN connections for this button which causes the Properties window not to appear. I have solved this with the help of Todorovic Dragan’s post about this matter. Read more →

Setting up a VPN connection to an Azure Virtual Network

One of the reasons for me to create an Azure virtual network is being able to connect to my development machines in the Cloud from anywhere, without exposing them to the public. In order to do so, all machines have to be added to the virtual network. You also have to select the option to set up a point-to-site VPN connection to the virtual network. Setting up a point-to-site VPN connection to an Azure virtual network is documented quite well on the Azure documentation pages. Read more →

Creating an Azure Virtual Network

Nowadays it’s possible to create virtual networks within your Azure subscription. This can be very useful for managing your Azure resources within a specific network or setting up a point-to-site or site-to-site connection to expand your current on-premise network. To me creating a virtual network sounds like a great way to manage my virtual machines and services for development purposes which I’m running within Azure. It will also let me connect to them without exposing stuff to the public internet. Read more →