Working With Azure Bastion (Preview) Service

Introduction to Azure Bastion service

Azure Bastion Service is in the Preview mode. It only supports to Azure Public preview. In this feature, we can access our Azure Virtual Machine through the internet browser and we never consider our Public IP address.

Step 1

Log into your Azure Public Preview portal here. The portal is of orange colour. Open your “Cloud Shell” and select “PowerShell”.

Now, we need to register the Bastion Host feature so enter the following command to register the Bastion Host.

“Register-AzureRmProviderFeature -FeatureName AllowBastionHost -ProviderNamespace Microsoft.Network”

Step 2

Now, we need to register the Azure Bastion feature to our subscription to the Microsoft.Network so enter the following command to register this service.

“Register-AzureRmResourceProvider -ProviderNamespace Microsoft.Network”

Note
Azure Bastion Feature is supported only in the following regions - West US, East US, North Europe, and West Europe.

Step 3

Now, we need to allow the Bastion feature to our subscription so let us enter the following command to register it.

“Get-AzureRmProviderFeature -ProviderNamespace Microsoft.Network”

Step 4

Click the “+ Create a Resource” and search “Bastion”. It is available in the Marketplace, so click “Bastion (Preview)”.

Step 5

Now, we are ready to deploy the “Bastion (Preview)”. Click the “Create” button to start the deployment.

Step 6

In the Instance Details, we can enter the name for our Bastion. Here, we need to create a Virtual Network. Click “Create new”.

Step 7

The Address Space is already configured so I want to configure SubNet. My SubNet name is “AzureBatstionSubnet” and the range is “10.1.10.0/24”. Finally, click “OK”.

Step 8

Now that we have successfully configured the Virtual Network, we can create the Bastion service. Click the “Review+Create” button to deploy the Bastion service.

Step 9

Let us check the Bastion Network, i.e., “MyBastion” under the Virtual Networks.

Step 10

We can access our server using the “Bastion” service now. Under our Virtual Machines, the “TechNetViki” server is running in the East US region, so I can access the Virtual Machine through “Bastion” service.

Step 11

Open the “TechNetViki” virtual machine and click “Connect”.

In the "Connect to Virtual Machine" wizard, we can select “Bastion” and enter the Username and Password.

Make sure you need to open the virtual machine in the “New Tab”.

Now, click “Connect”.

Step 12

The first time, the pop-up is blocked. So, let us click the notification and select "Allow" >> “Done”. Now again, click “Connect”.

Step 13

Yes, now we can successfully access our server on the internet browser.

Summary

In this article, we learned how to access our Azure Virtual Machine on the internet browser using Azure Bastion (Preview) feature. Make sure of the Region and change the Virtual Network to “Bastion” and try it.