Note that creating a private endpoint in Azure is crucial to securing access to Azure resources. In this article, I will walk you through the complete steps.
Create Private Endpoint Azure
To create Private Endpoint in Azure, follow the steps below.
1. Log in to the Azure Portal.
2. Search for Private endpoint and click on the search result “Private endpoints,” as shown in the screenshot below.
3. Click on the Private endpoints from the left navigation and then click on the + Create button from the right side, as shown in the screenshot below.
4. Provide the details below on the Create a Private Endpoint page.
- Subscription: Select a valid Azure subscription. If you haven’t till now, you can create an Azure free account now.
- Resource Group: Select an existing Resource group or create a new Resource group by clicking the create new link.
- Name: Provide a name for the private endpoint.
- Network Interface Name: Enter a name for the network interface, or leave the default name unchanged.
- Region: Choose the region or location.
Then, click the Next: Resource > button, as shown in the screenshot below.
5. On the Resource tab, provide the following details.
- Subscription: Choose the subscription.
- Resource type: Select the Resource type based on your requirements. For me, it is a storage account.
- Resource: Select the resource based on the Resource type you selected. I have chosen the storage account name.
- Target Sub-Resource: Based on the selected resource, select the corresponding target sub-resource. To me, it’s a blob.
Then, click the Network: Virtual Network > button, as shown in the screenshot below.
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6. On the Virtual Network page, choose the virtual network and subnet as shown in the screenshot below.
Then click the Next: DNS > button.
On the DNS page, no need to change anything; keep the default value as it is. Now, click on the Next: Tags > button as shown in the screenshot below.
On the Tags tab, no need to change anything, and click on the Next: Review + Create button.
7. Finally, on the next screen, the system will validate all the information you provided and display a confirmation that the validation has passed. Then click on the Create button, as shown in the screenshot below.
Now, you can check out the screenshot below to see that the deployment has been completed successfully. Click the Go to Resource button to navigate to your created private endpoint.
Here is the Azure private endpoint that we have created.
You can also delete the private endpoint in Azure after use if you no longer want it.
Conclusion
To access your Azure resources securely, you must know how to create a private endpoint in Azure. You can use the Azure Portal to achieve this task.
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I am Rajkishore, and I am a Microsoft Certified IT Consultant. I have over 14 years of experience in Microsoft Azure and AWS, with good experience in Azure Functions, Storage, Virtual Machines, Logic Apps, PowerShell Commands, CLI Commands, Machine Learning, AI, Azure Cognitive Services, DevOps, etc. Not only that, I do have good real-time experience in designing and developing cloud-native data integrations on Azure or AWS, etc. I hope you will learn from these practical Azure tutorials. Read more.
