Configuring Azure Front Door For A Highly Available Web Application

Currently, we have two App Services ruing on our environment, and the details are below.

• App Service Name: technet1
• Location: Central US
• URL: https://technet1.azurewebsites.net

• App Service Name: technet2
• Location: East US
• URL: https://technet2.azurewebsites.net

Step 1

On the Azure Portal, go to search resources, and type front door, and then select Front Door.

Step 2

On the Create a Front Door tab, select your subscription, Resource group, accept the default location setting, and click Next: Configuration.

Step 3

On the Configuration tab, in Frontends/domains, select + to add a frontend host.

Step 4

Enter a globally unique hostname, and then select Add.

Step 5

Select + to add a backend pool on the backend pool tab.

Step 6

Enter a globally unique hostname, and under BACKENDS, select + Add a backend.

Step 7

In Add a backend, enter the following information.

• Backend host type: Select App service.
• Subscription: Select your subscription.
• Backend hostname: Select the first web app you created. In this demo, our App was technet1.

Leave all other fields as default and then select Add.

Step 8

Add a backend again, enter the following information.

• Backend host type: Select App service.
• Subscription: Select your subscription.
• Backend hostname: Select the first web app you created. In this demo, our App was technet2.

Leave all other fields as default and then select Add.

Step 9

In Routing rules, select + to configure a routing rule.

Step 10

In Add a rule, enter the Name for the rule, make sure that the Backend pool is App, and leave all default values, and Add the Rule, finally Select Review + Create, and then Create.

Step 11

Copy the URL and paste it to the browser; your request will automatically be routed to the first server (TechNet1).

Step 12

Select technet1, then select Stop.

Step 13

Now, go back to our browser and select Refresh now; we can see that the TechNet2 App is working.