What The Hack - Virtual WAN

Introduction

In this Hack you will learn the most important concepts of Azure Virtual WAN. You will start with a basic any-to-any configuration, which will evolve towards a more complex design including Secure Virtual Hubs with Azure Firewall and Network Virtual Appliances.

Learning Objectives

The Hack challenges cover the following aspects of Virtual WAN

• Basic any-to-any connectivity with Virtual WAN
• Branch connectivity
• Custom routing in Virtual WAN, route tables, static routes
• Secured Virtual Hub with Azure Firewall, Azure Firewall Manager
• Routing traffic through Network Virtual Appliances in connected VNets

Challenges

• Challenge 1: Any to any connectivity
  • Deploy a basic Virtual WAN to interconnect virtual networks
• Challenge 2: Branches
  • Bring branch connections to your Virtual WAN with Site-to-Site VPN
• Challenge 3: Isolated VNets
  • Use custom routing to isolate a virtual network
• Challenge 4: Secured Virtual Hubs
  • Deploy Azure Firewall to secure your virtual hub
• Challenge 5: Network Virtual Appliance
  • Use a Network Virtual Appliance with the indirect spoke model

Prerequisites

• Basic knowledge about Azure: tenants, subscriptions, portal
• An understanding of Azure networking concepts such as Virtual Networks, peerings and User-Defined Routes

Contributors

• Thomas Vuylsteke
• Jose Moreno