How can I replicate the production traffic to a testing env. API to test new code?
So basically, the request goes to initial endpoint desired but a copy of all requests is sent to an endpoint in test environment to test new work done ?
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I have a app service published on Azure tha have some request in another server. Sometimes the client's server blocks me due to too many requests, taking a while to return to normal. Is there any way to merge the outgoing IP address of my requests without using a third-party proxy service?
Is it possible to include a separate Azure App Service as part of another App Service?
For example lets say that I have a website called www.mycompany.com hosted in its own Azure App Service. I have another Azure App Service that I want to make it accessible by going to a specific URL in the first App Service.
So in other words when a request comes to www.mycompany.com/eu/ I want the content of this endpoint (/eu) to be served from the other app service. Would a load balancer work? The reason I want to do this is because the /eu endpoint has grown too big and I would like to separate that from the main site and host it on a separate app service. I hope my question is clear.
Thanks in advance.
For this purpose you could use Application Gateway.
In a certain sense it resembles a load balancer (it is a L7 LB indeed) as you indicated, but the product provides many additional features.
The following image, extracted from the product documentation, explains how it works:
Basically, as outlined in the aforementioned docs, when describing how an Application Gateway accepts a request (note they mention WAF in the explanation, an optional security threat prevention system):
Before a client sends a request to an application gateway, it
resolves the domain name of the application gateway by using a Domain
Name System (DNS) server. Azure controls the DNS entry because all
application gateways are in the azure.com domain.
The Azure DNS returns the IP address to the client, which is the
frontend IP address of the application gateway.
The application gateway accepts incoming traffic on one or more
listeners. A listener is a logical entity that checks for
connection requests. It's configured with a frontend IP address,
protocol, and port number for connections from clients to the
application gateway.
If a web application firewall (WAF) is in use, the application
gateway checks the request headers and the body, if present,
against WAF rules. This action determines if the request is valid
request or a security threat. If the request is valid, it's routed
to the backend. If the request isn't valid and WAF is in Prevention
mode, it's blocked as a security threat. If it's in Detection mode,
the request is evaluated and logged, but still forwarded to the
backend server.
The routing to one backend or another can be based on URL Paths:
You can find an example of this configuration in this related Microsoft article.
In your use case, you will need to define two backends, one for every App Service, and define routing rules as appropriate.
As indicated before, your DNS should point to the Application Gateway: it will handle the routing to one or other App Service based on the route, /eu/* or /*, provided by the client.
The order of the routes is important: once a rule is matched, it will be the one processed.
Application Gateway is a regional service: Azure Front Door leverages a similar functionality (and much more) globally.
Please, consider review the associated costs of these services.
I am answering my own question to hopefully help others in the same situation. This was simply done using a reverse proxy. This article explains everything you need to set it up - https://ruslany.net/2014/05/using-azure-web-site-as-a-reverse-proxy/
I am newbie to Azure Logicapp. 2-3 months of experience.
In Azure Logic app ISE, I am trying to make http call to customer end via our proxy, but i don't see any option to specify proxy server and port in Http Connector. I read the documentation but could not find any where. Some of the option I tried is to adding below http headers:
URL-https://Customerurl.com
{
"X-Forwarded-Host": "172.16.161.70:5555", --> Proxy server:port
"X-Forwarded-Proto": "http"
}
But that's not working, don't see any request coming to proxy server, instead its calling directly to customer url.
Seek help here. Any help is appreciated. How to make that work?
While Logic Apps don't have a way to redirect traffic via a proxy, you could setup VNET Routes that forward traffic to your proxy.
This is useful in cases where you would like to ensure all requests come from a single IP Address when working with multiple ISEs and data sources that have IP Restrictions in place. This official doc covers the steps in details.
Working on a project where we are starting to use Deployment Slots in our App Services.
All our Prod apps are located behind Application Gateway, and we would like to also have our Slots located behind Application Gateway.
I understand we can not do this using "App Services" as target type in the Backend Pools as of now, but wondered if it is doable using "IP Address or FQDN" as target type.
I have tried to set it up, with various changes in the "HTTP Settings", Probe and so, but haven´t gotten it up spinning.
Can anyone confirm if this is possible, and have any tips on how this should be configured?
Thanks!
I was able to get this working on one of my slots.
Basically setup the listener with your necessary protocol, port cert, hostname, etc... I'm using multi-site listeners so I can have multiple URLs for the one AppGW/Public IP.
The rule points to the listenter, backend pool and appropriate http setting.
The HTTP setting should be configured to connect to your app service URL accordingly. I'm using the azurewebsite.net URL, so I use well known CA cert & override hostname from backend target:
The backend pool then points to the azurewebsites.net URL:
Make sure that GET / works on your app service and returns 200-399 HTTP status codes. Anything outside that range is a failure and the backend pool will be removed. If you need to create a custom health probe to a URL that will respond properly, or adjust the acceptable HTTP status code (if 401 or 403 due to required auth, then just override it with that for testing purposes for now).
I'm trying to do it again with a second slot and running into 502 errors from the App Gateway... However, I'm also waiting on DNS changes from my network team. My first one with my company domain works via hosts file edit, but the 2nd slot (which has 2 different URLs/listeners configured in the AppGW) doesn't want to work the same way for some reason.
We are trying to build a cloud service on Azure. We have 3 webrole instances running. What are the possible ways to proxy the requests that we get on a webrole to some other webrole.
For Example,
I have the following 2 web roles running: webrole0, webrole1.
I get a request on webrole0. Based on some parameters either webrole0 can serve the request or the request needs to be proxied to webrole1. How do I make this proxying of the request possible?
If you are looking for the path based routing you can go with Azure Application Gateway. If you want to route traffic to web roles based on the request parameters, you need to go with third party NVAs like F5 to check if that satisfies your routing needs.