Introduction

We will see here how to build with Terraform an Azure Application Gateway with:

• A Monitoring Dashboard hosted on a Log Analytics Workspace.
• A Key Vault as a safeguard of our Web TLS/SSL certificates.

An Azure Application Gateway is a PaaS service that acts as a web traffic load balancer (layer 4 and layer 7), all its feature are available here for information.

The following diagram illustrates a sample network topology of an Azure Application Gateway. In the article, this resource is shown as a shared service managed by a unique Cyber Security team.

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