Azure Traffic Manager Tutorial | DNS load balancer intro

Azure Traffic Manager is a DNS-based traffic load balancer that enables you to distribute traffic optimally to services across global Azure regions, while providing high availability and responsiveness.
In this episode I give you introduction to what Azure Traffic Manager service is and what are the key concepts around it. This video also shows what are the Traffic Manager routing methods, how to they solve your networking and routing challenges.
In this episodes live demo of
- Creating traffic manager profiles
- Routing using performance based method
- Routing using geographical based method
- Routing using weighted based method
Source code: github.com/MarczakIO/azure4ev...
Next steps for you after watching the video
1. Traffic Manager documentation
- docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azur...
2. Routing methods explained documentation
- docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azur...
3. FAQ for traffic manager
- docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azur...
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[@cheggmi3637]

my go to teacher. Thank you again Adam, I have been watching you tutorials today for the last 7hrs at a stretch. What I love is you don't cut corners to teach your topics even if it will take time and end up with a long video lecture bcos in the end it is worth it, the knowledge is shared and understood.

[@preciousajuru4412]

Your method of teaching is simply the best. You really made my journey to Azure cloud computing easy.

[@harithar100]

Pretty interesting. you keep everything well organized and simple to understand. Happy to join your channel.

[@santunaik1934]

Such a clean explanation, it's the beauty. thankyou Adam

[@L0RDeX]

Awesome video! Very informative. Thanks for your job!

[@AdamMarczakYT]

My pleasure!

[@sarathisarkar6692]

Adam, this is an incredible video. The way you explain is just perfect. Keep up the good work and would love to see more videos from you. Cheers.

[@AdamMarczakYT]

Thanks, will do!

[@yanivshalomhelp3579]

So good explained. So well build. Love you man. Many thanks

[@AdamMarczakYT]

You're welcome! Thanks for stopping by :)

[@arunprasath1511]

your explanation skills are outstanding

[@AdamMarczakYT]

Thanks a lot 😊

[@CloudInspired]

Great explanation, thank you!

[@AdamMarczakYT]

Cheers! Thanks :)

[@venkatx5]

Very Informative!

[@AdamMarczakYT]

Thank you, glad you liked it!

[@sayaminazuki6536]

amazing job, thank u so much

[@rskrao9152]

Excellent!!!!!!!!!!

[@loki-ky7yf]

Great and excellent explanation 👌

[@AdamMarczakYT]

Thanks a lot 😊

[@lidiaaracelialonsohuerta6211]

gracias por la explicación.

[@Huzefa]

Thank You for your informative Videos. i have a question am not able to get the page through "Traffic Manager". It is throwing an Error called 404 web site not found, custom domain has not been configured inside azure.

[@AdamMarczakYT]

Thanks for watching! If you input your public IP or DNS of your VM in the browser does it respond with a webpage? becuase traffic manager is just DNS routing so all backend server must be accessible.

[@Huzefa]

@@AdamMarczakYT Thank you for your valuable Response. I have created A web App and it is reachable with its url. then i created a traffic manager and add endpoint as my webapp service after this i try to access the webapp using traffic manager it showing the 404 error.

[@AdamMarczakYT]

Try flushing DNS as per video maybe it cached to old value. Other than this I would just remove traffic manager config and start over, maybe you missed one thing. Hard to say :(

[@BijouBakson]

Thank you Adam.

[@prashanthkommana8648]

u r fantastic or what .. mindblowing

[@AdamMarczakYT]

Thank you so much 😀

[@ramkumars8282]

Hi Adam, thank you. We would like to do a series for az 104 and az 500 like you did for az 900

[@AdamMarczakYT]

Noted!

[@abhisheks8792]

Amazing

[@pawesienko9207]

Good job Adam

[@keyvan.k]

amazing

[@prasenjitpaul3105]

good video thanks

[@shahid1990able]

great explanation! - can we add application gateway PIP as an endpoint in the Traffic manager?

[@AdamMarczakYT]

Yea, but at that point just use Azure Frontdoor, it's a both load balancer and WAF in one. :) docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/architecture/guide/technology-choices/load-balancing-overview?WT.mc_id=AZ-MVP-5003556#https-versus-non-https

[@maltek6457]

I have a lot of clients (300k - 1m) connecting to my application. If I use a TrafficManager and a low TTL (5min) is this not a lot of DNS traffic that I am generating (for the clients)? I need the low TTL to have a minimal downtime when switching from my first endpoint to the second one. Does it make more sense to use a reverse proxy here?

[@sarahtodo]

Ok now one on application gateway please! :)

[@AdamMarczakYT]

Noted! :)

[@sujithvenkatesh3305]

@@AdamMarczakYT Was about to ask the same question. Since 'Traffic manager' and 'Application gateway' sounds very similar, would love to know the small differences between them. Thanks in advance, Adam! Much love to you.

[@kanikagupta8780]

I have created TM in same resource group where i have configured the app services, but while adding endpoints i am unable to see the app services, hence not able to add endpoints. Any idea?

[@sid0000009]

How does this differ from Front door if you can share some points would be great..your video series is awsome..

[@AdamMarczakYT]

Thank you! you might be interested in this then docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/architecture/guide/technology-choices/load-balancing-overview which has a nice flow which describes when to choose traffic manager and when FD. It also describes what is the difference between FD and TM.

[@vivekm2674]

Suppose I am doing geography based routing and I have not defined where traffic from Africa should go to. Then how does traffic from Africa get routed?

[@AdamMarczakYT]

If no route is matched then you will receive DNS error that server address could not be resolved.

[@anupamchand3690]

Great Video Thanks. Can Traffic manager be used to spread load across http APi end points which are hosted on Azure functions Consumption plan? When adding an endpoint the target resource type only has App service so brings me to the base url webpage. How would I access rest https APIs and pass query parameters? Or do these APIs have to be hosted on VMs?

[@AdamMarczakYT]

Check this out docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/architecture/guide/technology-choices/load-balancing-overview?WT.mc_id=AZ-MVP-5003556

[@dnyaneshawar1]

@Adam Marczak -Thank you for the video !! I want to Creation of 2 and more VM in an availability set + Adding a load balancer infront of the VM+ Adding the Load Balancer to Traffic Manager using ARM template so if you have any template can you provide me.

[@AdamMarczakYT]

Check out quickstart templates, maybe they have what you need github.com/Azure/azure-quickstart-templates

[@doncharly7723]

Very informative. You should go slowly so people can grasp each step fully before going to the next step.

[@padmanathanramasamy8354]

What is the difference between Load balancer VS Traffic Manager VS Front door?

[@sreepriyanks]

Perfect video..please give me the arm templates to create web apps and vms.....

[@geebee6536]

My dns name doesn't route to any site

[@AdamMarczakYT]

Check my previous comment.

[@geebee6536]

do you have an email i can reach you from, need help with traffic manager

[@AdamMarczakYT]

My email is available in the channels about page. it's [e-mail] although please note that I don't do consultations because of limited time.

[@faizahmad846]

You are teaching very fast. Some of the things I am not able to understand.

[@antonsmirnov4370]

ты че русский что ли?

[@AdamMarczakYT]

Я поляк! :) Работаю над своим акцентом!

[@QuestionAll121]

Hi, greate informative video tx. My onsite router does a port forward on 8181 (MyHost.MyDomain:8181), how would i create a traffic manager rule to send the traffic for the URL to port 8181 so that the router knows how to direct the traffic to the host.