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Create a Standard Load Balancer with Azure CLI

Your company has an application that is overloaded. Whenever there's a spike in traffic, the application is unresponsive. You must implement a load balancer to save the application from crashing and improve response times.

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Level
Beginner
Last updated
Sep 25, 2025
Duration
1h 0m

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Table of Contents
  1. Challenge

    Create Virtual Machines
    1. Log in to the Azure Portal and open a Bash prompt in Cloud Shell.
    2. Create a network interface for your VMs.
    3. Create two VMs to add to the load balancing pool.
  2. Challenge

    Create a Load Balancer
    1. Create a load balancer and load balancing rules for port 80.
    2. Test the connectivity to your load balancer by accessing the public IP address from a new browser tab.
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