HTTPS

In the Ultra Transcenders books

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Each book explains HTTPS in context, with comparison tables and the common traps.

Terms in this definition

• HTTP / HTTPS

  The protocols of the web, with HTTPS being HTTP secured by TLS.

• HTTP

  Hypertext Transfer Protocol, which sends data in clear text; VCF interfaces and APIs instead use HTTPS.

• TLS

  Transport Layer Security, the encryption protocol for traffic like HTTPS and Bastion sessions over port 443. On a storage account, minimumTlsVersion fixes the oldest accepted version without opening any network access.

• VMware Cloud Foundation

  Broadcom's platform for private cloud. It unifies management of NSX, vSAN, vSphere, VCF Automation and VCF Operations as one fleet; VVF, by contrast, lacks automation and cloud management.

• REST

  Short for representational state transfer, the style of HTTP API that Azure services expose.

Related terms

• AMQP

  Short for Advanced Message Queuing Protocol; Service Bus and Event Hubs accept it as well as HTTPS.

• App Service custom domain

  Host name bound to an App Service app once the service has confirmed an asuid TXT record and an A or CNAME record. Serving it over HTTPS also requires binding a TLS certificate.

• Application rule

  Azure Firewall rule type that controls outbound HTTP, HTTPS and MSSQL traffic according to the destination FQDN, with full URL filtering requiring Premium. DNAT and network rules are evaluated before it.

• Azure Application Gateway

  A load balancer for web traffic that works at layer 7, sending HTTP and HTTPS requests to back ends based on host name or URL path. It can also handle TLS termination and run a web application firewall, which Azure Load Balancer cannot since it doesn't read web requests.

• Azure Blob Storage

  Azure's service for huge volumes of unstructured objects like documents, pictures, video, backups and logs. A storage account contains containers, which contain blobs, and everything is accessed over HTTPS or HTTP.

• Azure Event Hubs

  Azure service for ingesting telemetry at high volume over HTTPS or AMQP; diagnostic settings can send data to it.

• Azure OpenAI v1 API

  Azure OpenAI API without version parameters, called from the ordinary OpenAI() client with base URL https://<resource-name>.openai.azure.com/openai/v1/; the host comes from the resource name rather than the project.

• Built-in authentication for App Service and Container Apps

  Easy Auth: sign-in handled by the platform itself (as a sidecar for Container Apps), working with Entra ID, Google, GitHub, Facebook, X or any OpenID Connect provider. Turning on Require authentication turns away anonymous callers; pair it with HTTPS only.