Hands-On Azure Labs: Building Redundant Cloud Solutions

Lab Overview

In this lab, you will deploy and configure a public Azure Load Balancer (LB-West) in the West US region to distribute inbound traffic across multiple virtual machines. A load balancer helps maintain performance, reliability, and high availability by automatically routing requests to healthy servers. By configuring LB-West with a frontend IP, a backend pool, and health probes, you will ensure HTTP requests are properly distributed among the West US VMs.

Learning Objectives

By completing this lab, you will be able to:

• • Deploy a Standard Public Load Balancer and configure a frontend IP address.
  • Create a backend pool that maps to virtual machines in the West US region.
  • Configure health probes to monitor VM status and reroute traffic if a VM becomes unavailable.
  • Set up load balancing rules to direct HTTP traffic from the frontend to the backend pool.

Exam Relevance

These skills map directly to:

• • AZ-104 (Azure Administrator): Validates your ability to manage and configure Azure networking components such as load balancers.
  • AZ-305 (Azure Solutions Architect): Demonstrates your competence in designing high availability and scalable solutions, including using load balancers for fault tolerance.