8.2.1 Creating Azure Services

This section outlines general steps for creating Azure services for use with Access Manager.

For more information, see the Azure documentation.

IMPORTANT:While creating services, (such as availability set, virtual network, security groups, instances, and load balancers), ensure to specify the same value for Location.

Perform the following steps to create Azure services:

Log in to Azure.
Create or determine an existing Resource group for use with Access Manager.
1. In the Azure portal, click Create a resource.
2. Search for resource group and select Resource group.
3. Click Create.
For more information about resource groups, see Azure Resource Manager Overview > Terminology > resource group.

NOTE:All administrators may not have rights to create a new resource group.
Create or determine an existing Availability Set for use with Access Manager.

NOTE:If you plan to configure load balancing for Identity Server and Access Gateway, create a separate availability set for each cluster type.
1. In the Azure portal, click Create a resource.
2. Search for availability set and select Availability Set.
3. Click Create.
4. Specify values for Name, Subscription, Resource group, and Location.
5. Set Fault domains and Update domains to 2.
  
  NOTE:Keep the default values as is in other fields.
6. Click Create.
Create or determine a Virtual Network for use with Access Manager.

For this example configuration, all Access Manager components use the same virtual network.
1. In the Azure portal, click New.
2. Search for virtual network and select Virtual Network.
3. Click Create.
4. Configure the required network settings, such as Name, Subscription, Resource group, Location, Address Space, Subnet name, and Subnet address range.
  
  The following is an example configuration:
  - Name: NAM-subnet1
  - Address space: 10.10.10.0/24
  - Subnet name: default
  - Subnet address range: 10.10.10.0/24
5. Click Create.
Continue with Section 8.2.2, Creating and Deploying Virtual Machines.