Azure Front Door CDN is a global, scalable entry-point that uses the Microsoft global edge network to create fast, secure, and widely scalable web applications. Azure Front Door CDN combines the capabilities of Azure CDN Standard and Azure Web Application Firewall to provide a secure, fast, and reliable cloud delivery solution for your Azure applications.
Using Front Door with a Storage account in Azure is a great way to serve static content from a storage account. It can help accelerate the delivery of your static content by caching it at strategically placed locations. Organizations can also leverage Front Door to provide a single global entry point for their applications, which can be used to route to multiple backend pools consisting of Azure Storage, Web Apps, Cloud Services, and even on-premises web servers.
In this hands-on lab, you will learn how to create an Azure Front Door profile and add endpoints to it.
Learning objectives
Upon completion of this intermediate-level lab, you will be able to:
- Understand the usage of Azure Front Door with a Storage account
- Create a Front Door profile and add endpoints
Intended audience
- Candidates for Azure Administrator Associate certification (AZ-104)
- Cloud Architects
- Data Engineers
- DevOps Engineers
- Software Engineers
Prerequisites
Familiarity with the following will be beneficial but is not required:
- Azure Storage account
- Azure Front Door
The following content can be used to fulfill the prerequisites:
Parveen is an Azure advocate with previous experience in the professional consulting services industries. He specializes in infrastructure and DevOps with a wide range of knowledge in security and access management. He is also an Azure Certified - DevOps Engineer Expert, Security Engineer, Developer Associate, Administrator Associate, CompTIA Certified - Network+, Security+, and AWS Cloud Practitioner.
Parveen enjoys writing about cloud technologies and sharing the knowledge with the community to help students upskill in the cloud.