Microsoft AZ-700: Exercise – Create a Front Door for a Highly Available Web Application

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Notes from MS Learn AZ-700 Module 4: Load balance non-HTTP(S) traffic in Azure – Unit 6: Exercise – Create a Front Door for a Highly Available Web Application

Tasks (taken from MS Learn: Items without “Task” in front of them are personal additions)

  • Task 1: Create two instances of a web app
    • Search and select App Services in Azure Portal
    • Click Create
      • Choose or Create new under Resource Group
      • Enter Unique name under Instance Details
      • Choose a Runtime stack from dropdown
      • Choose a region from dropdown
      • Choose or create new under Windows Plan (Create new in this example)
        • Enter Unique Name
        • Click OK
    • Click Review + Create
    • Once validated click Create
    • Repeat for second App Service
  • Task 2: Create a Front Door for your application
    • Search and click Front Door and CDN profiles in Azure Portal
    • Click Create
    • Leave Quick Create selected
    • Click Continue to create a Front Door
      • Select (or create new) a Resource group from the dropdown (choose from dropdown in this example)
      • Enter unique name under Profile details
      • Enter unique name under Endpoint settings
      • Select “App services” from Origin type dropdown
      • Select Origin host name from dropdown
      • Click Review + Create
      • Once Validated click Create
      • Click Go to resource once deployment complete
      • Click Origin groups
        • Click created origin group (default-origin-group in this example)
        • Click Add an origin
          • Enter Unique name
          • Select Origin type from dropdown
          • Select Host name from dropdown
          • Click Add
          • Click Update
  • Task 3: View Azure Front Door in action
    • Click Overview under the Frontdoor page
    • Copy Endpoint hostname and navigate to address
    • Search and click App Services in Azure Portal
    • Check box next to first App Service (WebAppContoso-2001)
    • Select Stop in menu bar
    • Select Yes to verify
    • Click refresh in menu bar
    • App should show status stopped
    • Go back to App browser tab and refresh
    • Should appear the same
    • Go back to Azure and stop second webapp
    • Return to App browser tab – refresh – should show Error code as unavailable now that both are stopped
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