Chapter 1: Architecture

Azure Reference Architecture Diagrams

Azure networking offers multiple ways to organize your Azure architecture to take advantage of FortiGate traffic inspection. Most importantly, traffic must follow a symmetrical routing path (for forward and reverse flows). As long as flows are symmetrical, the architecture will work and traffic will flow through a FortiGate NGFW for inspection.

During this course the following two architectures will be deployed:

Single VNET without a FortiGate NVA - Unsecured VNET

Single VNET with a FortiGate NVA - Secured VNET