Demo: Azure Traffic Manager

Azure Traffic Manager is a DNS-based traffic load balancer that allows us to distribute traffic on our web applications across the different Azure regions. Once integrated, they provide us with public endpoints with high availability and responsiveness.

Features offered by Traffic Manager

• It helps improve the performance of our applications.
• It increases its percentage of availability.
• It removes any stress regarding the downtime of our app.

Prerequisites

• We must deploy our web app in two different Azure regions.
• We have to clone our existing app if we don’t want to do the same configuration again. We can find this option under the “Development Tools” section of the deployed web app.

Creating a profile

Let’s see how we can create a traffic manager for our web app:

1. Navigate over to Azure Portal and log in.

2. On the Azure home page, you can find the “Create a resource” button. Once you click it, it will open a marketplace. Search for the “Traffic Manager profile” by typing in the search box or scrolling down to find it.

3. Click the “Create” button after choosing the “Traffic Manager profile” option for the “Plan” field. This will open up a form for you to fill out. You need to select your subscription and an already ...