Assign Azure IP to Local PC

Question

I would like to temporarily assign a static IP address in our Azure to my local PC during development. Is this possible?

Answer 1

Hi Chris,

If you are referring to using a Azure VM's Static Public IP address, then no and I wouldn't recommend trying to make it work.

If you are looking to work in an environment where you can leverage this IP address, simply create an Azure Virtual Machine and RDP into it to utilize that Static IP address and set up your environment there.

Quickstart: Create a Windows virtual machine in the Azure portal

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/windows/quick-create-portal

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Best regards,

Dillon Silzer | Cloudaen.com | Cloudaen Computing Solutions

Answer 2

Assigning an Azure public IP address directly to your local PC is not possible.

Best practice is to use a VPN Gateway to connect your local PC to the Azure Virtual Network.

See: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/vpn-gateway/tutorial-create-gateway-portal

You can mark it 'Accept Answer' and 'Upvote' if this helped you

Regards,

Abiola

Answer 3

@Chris Green ,

Welcome to the Microsoft Q&A Platform. Thank you for reaching out & I hope you are doing well.

I see Dillon Silzer and akinbade abiola has addressed your queries.

As mentioned, there are no out of box solutions for this.

• A similar requirement is being addressed here (for Inbound traffic)
• You should use a NVA in Azure if you want internet connectivity via Azure IP

Set Up:

• You should advertise additional custom routes 0.0.0.0/1 and 128.0.0.0/1
  • See : Forced tunneling
• The reason for breaking 0.0.0.0/0 into two smaller subnets is that these smaller prefixes are more specific than the default route that may already be configured on the local network adapter and, as such, will be preferred when routing traffic.
• This requires that the

1. There is an NVA (such as Azure Firewall) that can handle internet traffic
2. GatewaySubnet has a UDR with routes 0.0.0.0/1 and 128.0.0.0/1 pointing to the nextHop as the NVA's IP Address

Kindly let us know if this helps or you need further assistance on this issue.

Thanks,

Kapil

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