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Quickstart: Direct web traffic with Azure Application Gateway - Azure portal

With Azure Application Gateway, you can direct your application web traffic to specific resources by assigning listeners to ports, creating rules, and adding resources to a backend pool.

This quickstart shows you how to use the Azure portal to quickly create the application gateway with two virtual machines in its backend pool. You then test it to make sure it's working correctly.

If you don't have an Azure subscription, create a free account before you begin.

Sign in to Azure

Sign in to the Azure portal at https://portal.azure.com

Create an application gateway

A virtual network is needed for communication between the resources that you create. Two subnets are created in this example: one for the application gateway, and the other for the backend servers. You can create a virtual network at the same time that you create the application gateway.

1. Click Create a resource found on the upper left-hand corner of the Azure portal.
2. Click Networking and then click Application Gateway in the Featured list.

Basics

1. Enter these values for the application gateway:

   • myAppGateway - for the name of the application gateway.
   • myResourceGroupAG - for the new resource group.

   

2. Accept the default values for the other settings and then click OK.

Settings

1. Click Choose a virtual network, click Create new, and then enter these values for the virtual network:

   • myVNet - for the name of the virtual network.
   • 10.0.0.0/16 - for the virtual network address space.
   • myAGSubnet - for the subnet name.
   • 10.0.0.0/24 - for the subnet address range.

   

2. Click OK to go back to the Settings page.

3. Under Frontend IP configuration ensure IP address type is set to public, and under Public IP address, ensure Create new is selected. Type myAGPublicIPAddress for the public IP address name. Accept the default values for the other settings and then click OK.

Summary

Review the settings on the summary page, and then click OK to create the virtual network, the public IP address, and the application gateway. It may take several minutes for the application gateway to be created. Wait until the deployment finishes successfully before moving on to the next section.

Add a subnet

1. Click All resources in the left-hand menu, and then click myVNet from the resources list.

2. Click Subnets, and then click + Subnet.

   

3. Enter myBackendSubnet for the name of the subnet and then click OK.

Create backend servers

In this example, you create two virtual machines that are used as backend servers for the application gateway. You also install IIS on the virtual machines to verify that the application gateway was successfully created.

Create a virtual machine

1. On the Azure portal, click Create a resource.

2. Click Compute and then select Windows Server 2016 Datacenter in the Featured list.

3. Enter these values for the virtual machine:

   • myResourceGroupAG for the resource group.
   • myVM - for the name of the virtual machine.
   • azureuser - for the administrator user name.
   • Azure123456! for the password.

   Accept the other defaults and click Next: Disks.

4. Accept the disk defaults and click Next: Networking.

5. Make sure that myVNet is selected for the virtual network and the subnet is myBackendSubnet.

6. Accept the other defaults and click Next: Management.

7. Click Off to disable boot diagnostics. Accept the other defaults and click Review + create.

8. Review the settings on the summary page, and then click Create.

9. Wait for the virtual machine creation to complete before continuing.

Install IIS

1. Open the interactive shell and make sure that it's set to PowerShell.

   

2. Run the following command to install IIS on the virtual machine:

   Set-AzureRmVMExtension `
     -ResourceGroupName myResourceGroupAG `
     -ExtensionName IIS `
     -VMName myVM `
     -Publisher Microsoft.Compute `
     -ExtensionType CustomScriptExtension `
     -TypeHandlerVersion 1.4 `
     -SettingString '{"commandToExecute":"powershell Add-WindowsFeature Web-Server; powershell Add-Content -Path \"C:\\inetpub\\wwwroot\\Default.htm\" -Value $($env:computername)"}' `
     -Location EastUS
   

3. Create a second virtual machine and install IIS using the steps that you just finished. Enter myVM2 for its name and for VMName in Set-AzureRmVMExtension.

Add backend servers

1. Click All resources, and then click myAppGateway.

2. Click Backend pools. A default pool was automatically created with the application gateway. Click appGatewayBackendPool.

3. Under Targets, click IP address or FQDN select Virtual machine.

4. Under Virtual Machine, add myVM and myVM2 virtual machines and their associated network interfaces.

   

5. Click Save.

Test the application gateway

1. Find the public IP address for the application gateway on the Overview screen. Click All resources and then click myAGPublicIPAddress.

   

2. Copy the public IP address, and then paste it into the address bar of your browser.

   

Clean up resources

When no longer needed, delete the resource group, application gateway, and all related resources. To do so, select the resource group that contains the application gateway and click Delete.

Next steps

[!div class="nextstepaction"] Manage web traffic with an application gateway using the Azure CLI