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--- title: "Quickstart: Create a public load balancer - ARM template" titleSuffix: Azure Load Balancer description: This quickstart shows how to create a load balancer by using an Azure Resource Manager template. services: load-balancer author: mbender-ms manager: KumudD ms.service: azure-load-balancer ms.topic: quickstart ms.date: 11/26/2024 ms.author: mbender ms.custom: - mvc - subject-armqs - mode-arm - template-quickstart - engagement-fy23 - devx-track-arm-template - sfi-image-nochange #Customer intent: I want to create a load balancer by using an Azure Resource Manager template so that I can load balance internet traffic to VMs. # Customer intent: As a cloud architect, I want to deploy a standard load balancer using an ARM template, so that I can efficiently distribute internet traffic across multiple virtual machines. --- # Quickstart: Create a public load balancer to load balance VMs using an ARM template This quickstart shows you how to deploy a standard load balancer to load balance virtual machines. The load balancer distributes traffic across multiple virtual machines in a backend pool. The template also creates a virtual network, network interfaces, a NAT Gateway, and an Azure Bastion instance. :::image type="content" source="media/quickstart-load-balancer-standard-public-portal/public-load-balancer-resources.png" alt-text="Diagram of resources deployed for a standard public load balancer." lightbox="media/quickstart-load-balancer-standard-public-portal/public-load-balancer-resources.png"::: Using an ARM template takes fewer steps comparing to other deployment methods. [!INCLUDE [About Azure Resource Manager](~/reusable-content/ce-skilling/azure/includes/resource-manager-quickstart-introduction.md)] If your environment meets the prerequisites and you're familiar with using ARM templates, select the **Deploy to Azure** button. The template will open in the Azure portal. :::image type="content" source="~/reusable-content/ce-skilling/azure/media/template-deployments/deploy-to-azure-button.svg" alt-text="Button to deploy the Resource Manager template to Azure." border="false" link="https://portal.azure.com/#create/Microsoft.Template/uri/https%3A%2F%2Fraw.githubusercontent.com%2FAzure%2Fazure-quickstart-templates%2Fmaster%2Fquickstarts%2Fmicrosoft.network%2Fload-balancer-standard-create%2Fazuredeploy.json"::: ## Prerequisites If you don't have an Azure subscription, create a [free account](https://azure.microsoft.com/pricing/purchase-options/azure-account?cid=msft_learn) before you begin. ## Review the template The template used in this quickstart is from [Azure Quickstart Templates](https://azure.microsoft.com/resources/templates/load-balancer-standard-create/). Load balancer and public IP SKUs must match. When you create a standard load balancer, you must also create a new standard public IP address that is configured as the frontend for the standard load balancer. Microsoft recommends using standard SKU for production workloads. :::code language="json" source="~/quickstart-templates/quickstarts/microsoft.network/load-balancer-standard-create/azuredeploy.json"::: Multiple Azure resources have been defined in the template: - [**Microsoft.Network/loadBalancers**](/azure/templates/microsoft.network/loadbalancers) - [**Microsoft.Network/publicIPAddresses**](/azure/templates/microsoft.network/publicipaddresses): for the load balancer, bastion host, and the NAT gateway. - [**Microsoft.Network/bastionHosts**](/azure/templates/microsoft.network/bastionhosts) - [**Microsoft.Network/networkSecurityGroups**](/azure/templates/microsoft.network/networksecuritygroups) - [**Microsoft.Network/virtualNetworks**](/azure/templates/microsoft.network/virtualnetworks) - [**Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachines**](/azure/templates/microsoft.compute/virtualmachines) (3). - [**Microsoft.Network/networkInterfaces**](/azure/templates/microsoft.network/networkinterfaces) (3). - [**Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachine/extensions**](/azure/templates/microsoft.compute/virtualmachines/extensions) (3): use to configure the Internet Information Server (IIS), and the web pages. - [**Microsoft.Network/natGateways**](/azure/templates/microsoft.network/natgateways): for the NAT gateway. > [!IMPORTANT] > [!INCLUDE [Pricing](~/reusable-content/ce-skilling/azure/includes/bastion-pricing.md)] To find more templates that are related to Azure Load Balancer, see [Azure Quickstart Templates](https://azure.microsoft.com/resources/templates/?resourceType=Microsoft.Network&pageNumber=1&sort=Popular). ## Deploy the template 1. Select **Try it** from the following code block to open Azure Cloud Shell, and then follow the instructions to sign in to Azure. ```azurepowershell-interactive $projectName = Read-Host -Prompt "Enter a project name with 12 or less letters or numbers that is used to generate Azure resource names" $location = Read-Host -Prompt "Enter the location (i.e. EastUS)" $adminUserName = Read-Host -Prompt "Enter the virtual machine administrator account name" $adminPassword = Read-Host -Prompt "Enter the virtual machine administrator password" -AsSecureString $resourceGroupName = "${projectName}rg" $templateUri = "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Azure/azure-quickstart-templates/master/quickstarts/microsoft.network/load-balancer-standard-create/azuredeploy.json" New-AzResourceGroup -Name $resourceGroupName -Location $location New-AzResourceGroupDeployment -ResourceGroupName $resourceGroupName -TemplateUri $templateUri -Name $projectName -location $location -adminUsername $adminUsername -adminPassword $adminPassword Write-Host "Press [ENTER] to continue." ``` Wait until you see the prompt from the console. 1. Select **Copy** from the previous code block to copy the PowerShell script. 1. Right-click the shell console pane and then select **Paste**. 1. Enter the values. The template deployment creates three availability zones. Availability zones are supported only in [certain regions](../reliability/availability-zones-overview.md). Use one of the supported regions. If you aren't sure, enter **EastUS**. The resource group name is the project name with **`rg`** appended. You need the resource group name in the next section. It takes about 10 minutes to deploy the template. When completed, the output is similar to:  Azure PowerShell is used to deploy the template. You can also use the Azure portal, Azure CLI, and REST API. To learn other deployment methods, see [Deploy templates](../azure-resource-manager/templates/deploy-portal.md). ## Review deployed resources 1. Sign in to the [Azure portal](https://portal.azure.com). 1. Select **Resource groups** from the left pane. 1. Select the resource group that you created in the previous section. The default resource group name is the project name with **-rg** appended. 1. Select the load balancer. Its default name is the project name with **-lb** appended. 1. Copy only the IP address part of the public IP address, and then paste it into the address bar of your browser.  The browser displays the default page of the Internet Information Services (IIS) web server.  To see the load balancer distribute traffic across all three VMs, you can force a refresh of your web browser from the client machine. ## Clean up resources When you no longer need them, delete the: * Resource group * Load balancer * Related resources Go to the Azure portal, select the resource group that contains the load balancer, and then select **Delete resource group**. ## Next steps In this quickstart, you: * Created a virtual network for the load balancer and virtual machines. * Created an Azure Bastion host for management. * Created a standard load balancer and attached VMs to it. * Configured the load-balancer traffic rule, and the health probe. * Tested the load balancer. To learn more, continue to the tutorials for Azure Load Balancer. > [!div class="nextstepaction"] > [Azure Load Balancer tutorials](./quickstart-load-balancer-standard-public-portal.md)