NIC setting that carries a private IP, dynamic or static, and optionally a public one. NAT rules and backend pools on a load balancer refer to it.
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Terms in this definition
- NIC
Network interface card, the network interface of a VM; NSGs can be associated with 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.
- ELT
Extract, load, transform: raw data lands in the target system first and is transformed there. See ETL for the opposite order.
Related terms
- Add-AzNetworkInterfaceIpConfig
Cmdlet in Az.Network for adding another IP configuration to a NIC that already exists. Passing
-PrivateIpAddressVersion IPv6lets a VM gain IPv6 without needing a second NIC. - Backend pool
Targets of a load balancer, identified by IP address or NIC IP configuration. A pool can't span VNets, and a Standard load balancer won't accept a VM that has a Basic public IP.
- Set-AzApplicationGatewayIPConfiguration
Cmdlet in Az.Network that alters the gateway IP configuration, meaning its subnet, on the gateway object held in memory. Set-AzApplicationGateway then commits the change.