Tuesday, July 7, 2020

How to Configure an Azure Firewall

Azure Firewall helps us create our own firewall that helps us in filtering traffic between virtual networks ,between different applications to Internet etc .It is a FaaS service (Firewall as a service) .It provides high availability and scalability.

Creating a firewall through Azure Portal 

Login to your account and click add a resource icon and search for Firewall .You can see a Firewall resource which is owned by Microsoft and click on create .This will open up a window where you can configure your settings


Here I have created a firewall named myTestfw in UK South region and associated this firewall with the virtual network vnet-123 having ip addresses in the range (10.0.0.0-10.255.255.255) .Once I click on review + create button the firewall gets configured in the resource group I have mentioned .For security reasons I have not shown the subscription and the resource group name here .Note we could add tags for further analysis which i am not doing now .