tutorial-load-balancer-standard-public-zonal-portal.md

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Tutorial: Load balance VMs within an availability zone by using the Azure portal

This tutorial creates a public load balancer with a zonal IP. In the tutorial, you specify a zone for your frontend and backend instances.

In this tutorial, you learn how to:

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• Create a virtual network with an Azure Bastion host for management.
• Create a NAT gateway for outbound internet access of the resources in the virtual network.
• Create a load balancer with a health probe and traffic rules.
• Create zonal virtual machines (VMs) and attach them to a load balancer.
• Create a basic Internet Information Services (IIS) site.
• Test the load balancer.

For more information about availability zones and a standard load balancer, see Standard load balancer and availability zones.

Prerequisites

• An Azure subscription

Sign in to Azure

Sign in to the Azure portal.

[!INCLUDE load-balancer-create-bastion]

[!INCLUDE load-balancer-nat-gateway-subnet-add]

[!INCLUDE load-balancer-public-create]

[!INCLUDE load-balancer-create-virtual-machine-zonal]

[!INCLUDE ephemeral-ip-note.md]

[!INCLUDE load-balancer-install-iis]

[!INCLUDE load-balancer-cleanup-resources]

Next steps

Advance to the next article to learn how to load balance VMs across availability zones:

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