The public or private IP address on a load balancer that clients connect to. Inbound NAT rules and load-balancing rules point at it.
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Terms in this definition
- Private IP address
An address taken from a subnet of a virtual network and used to talk within that network, to linked networks and to on-premises sites. The internet can't reach it.
- ELT
Extract, load, transform: raw data lands in the target system first and is transformed there. See ETL for the opposite order.
- CONNECT
In SQL Server, the right to open a connection to a database. Fabric's equivalent is Read permission on an item, which allows connecting to a warehouse or SQL endpoint but not querying anything in it.
- Azure NAT Gateway
Gives every resource in a subnet a managed way out to the internet through one or more fixed public IP addresses, while accepting no unsolicited inbound connections. Azure Container Apps can use it only when the environment is a workload profiles one.