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Azure application gateway - authentication

Martin Meraner Cloud Admin 1 Reputation point
2020-12-03T13:06:53.55+00:00

So I would seek advice here for the following scenario:

  • a virtual machine runs a legacy web application
  • the authentication to this legacy application is weak and I would want AAD authentication in front of it
  • I tried the application proxy (which is meant for on-premise resources) and it works

Maintaining a set of application proxies (virtual machines on the azure environment) is quite an overhead (also in cost), so is there another possibility to get an AAD authentication in front of the legacy web application?

I know there is App services, but those do not allow a VM IIS as a target (they rather host code in a managed environment).

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Martin

Microsoft Security | Microsoft Entra | Microsoft Entra ID
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  1. Alfredo Revilla - Upwork Top Talent | IAM SWE SWA 27,526 Reputation points Moderator
    2020-12-04T18:16:08.537+00:00

    Hi @Martin Meraner Cloud Admin , Azure Web Apps supports a wide range languages and platforms: ASP.NET, ASP.NET Core, Java, Ruby, Node.js, PHP, or Python. Instead of deploying your applications to IIS you would do it to Azure Web Apps. Also, Web Apps support integrated Authentication and Authorization trough a variety of Identity providers like Azure AD, Facebook, Google and more.

    Please let me know if you need more help. If the answer was helpful to you, please accept it and, optionally, provide feedback so that other members in the community can benefit from it.

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