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VM-Series on Azure Deployment Resources

Welcome to the Palo Alto Networks VM-Series on Azure resource page. This area provides information about VM-Series on Microsoft Azure to help you get started or find advanced architecture designs and other resources to help accelerate your VM-Series deployment. Engage the community and ask questions in the discussion forum below.

How to Videos and Tutorials

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Customer Support Portal Resource

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Templates, Scripts and Deployment Resources

Terraform Template that deploys a two-tier containerized application on AKS secured by VM-Series

Uses a Terraform template to deploy (2) two-tiered containerized applications (Guestbook app and a WordPress server) within an AKS cluster that is protected by the VM-Series in an Application Gateway/Load Balancer sandwich.

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Azure-FW-4-Interfaces

Deploys a VM-Series with 4 interfaces into an existing Microsoft Azure environment.

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Azure-FW-3-Interfaces

Deploys a VM-Series with 3 interfaces (1-MGMT and 2-Dataplane) into an existing Microsoft Azure environment.

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Multiple Azure interface variations

Several ARM templates for the VM-Series with varying options including multiple interfaces.

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Azure-2-Firewalls-Public-Load-Balancer

Deploys a Public Azure Load Balancer in front of 2 VM-Series firewalls with the following features:

  • The 2 firewalls are deployed with 4-8 interfaces. 1 MGMT and 3-7 data plane.
  • Static IP addresses are assigned to the interfaces based on the input in the starting ip address fields.

Note: This template deploys into existing VNETs and storage accounts within the same region. As a result, the storage account and VNET must be created before deploying this template.

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Managed Scale and Resiliency for the VM-Series on Microsoft Azure

An ARM template that deploys two VM-Series firewalls between a pair of Azure load balancers to deliver managed scale and high availability for internet facing applications.

Using VM-Series Firewalls to Secure Internet-Facing Web Workloads

This template creates a highly available VM-Series security solution for Azure for both inbound traffic and outbound traffic. It uses VM-Series firewall pairs coupled with Azure load balancers for a fully redundant security solution.

Auto Scaling the VM-Series-firewall on Azure v1.0

Templates and scripts that deploy Azure Load Balancers and the VM-Series firewalls to deliver security for internet facing applications. Allows for protecting of new or existing workloads.

Azure Transit VNet with the VM-Series

Deploys a Hub and Spoke architecture to centralize commonly used services such as security and secure connectivity. All traffic to and from the Spokes will 'transit' the Hub VNet and will be protected by the VM-Series next generation firewall.

Azure Transit VNET architecture with auto scaling VM-Series in application spoke

Deploys a Hub and Spoke architecture to centralize commonly used services such as security and secure connectivity. All traffic to and from the Spokes will 'transit' the Hub VNET and will be protected by the VM-Series next generation firewall. Version 1.1 adds ability to do auto scaling for VM-Series to protect Internet facing applications running in a spoke VNET.

Two tier application environment protected by VM-Series

ARM template that deploys a two-tiered web/DB application environment secured by a VM-Series firewall. Template includes relevant User-Defined Route (UDR) tables to send all traffic through the VM-Series firewall.

Terraform two tier application environment protected by VM-Series

A Terraform Template that deploys two-tiered web/DB application environment secured by a VM-Series firewall.

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Azure VM Monitoring

Python script that harvests Azure VM properties and publishes them as IP-tag mappings that can be used in a Dynamic Address Group.

Discussions

Author Topic Views Replies
06-04-2023

VM-100 on Azure doesn't load Tags on Dynamic Groups

Hi Community, we deployed a VM-100 on Azure with a lab license to play around with PAN-OS and to test some azure designs. We noticed, when crea...

48 0
05-24-2023

SAML SSO with Azure AD Authentication

We have configured SAML SSO for Palo Alto VM Series on Azure with Azure AD authentication but somehow the SAML SSO configuration is not working. Pl...

147 0
05-23-2023

Palo Alto active-active HA setup in MS Azure

Hello Team, Greetings, Does azure deployment support Palo Alto in active-active HA setup? documents in PA end refers only active-passive setu...

163 1
05-15-2023

Help moving a Palo VM to another Azure region

Hi all, so I made a boneheaded move and set up our Palo VM in US East when I should have done it in US East 2. I'm trying to use the Azure Resource...

164 0
05-15-2023

Site to Site VPN Unable to Ping Azure VM

Hello. I recently setup our Site to Site VPN to Azure and am having an issue with pinging to Azure from OnPrem. The tunnel shows connected an...

283 2
06-05-2023

USER-ID policies + FULL azure ad

Hello everyone , I'm having a problem that I can't solve. I'll explain the context.I am in full AZURE AD.My computers are enrolled via INTUNE I ...

599 7
04-19-2023

Arm template azure-different zone

Has anybody successfully deployed VM's in Azure for palo alto? I have used the template, but no matter what I can't seem to put a fw in zone 2. Any...

407 1

Blogs

New Cloud NGFW for Azure Page on LIVEcommunity!

05-03-2023 — Head to LIVEcommunity's new Cloud NGFW for Azure products page for blogs, articles, videos, and more related to this fully managed, Azure-native, NGFW service.

Labels: Azure Cloud Cloud NGFW Cloud NGFW for Azure Resources
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3 Reasons Why You Need to Consider Cloud NGFW for Azure

05-02-2023 — Check out three reasons why you should consider Cloud NGFW for Azure, Palo Alto Networks fully managed, Azure-native, NGFW service.

Labels: Azure Cloud Cloud NGFW for Azure NGFW
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Prisma Cloud Data Security for Azure Is Now Available

11-09-2022 — Prisma Cloud helps protect your data across multicloud environments with exposure analysis, sensitive data detection, and malware detection. Protect your data across multicloud environments with exposure analysis, sensitive data detection, and ...

Labels: Azure Prisma Cloud Prisma Cloud Data Security
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VM-Series Virtual Firewalls Integrate with Azure Gateway Load Balancer

10-17-2022 — Azure Gateway Load Balancer helps to easily deploy, scale, and manage VM-Series firewalls referred to as Network Virtual Appliances (NVAs) in Azure.

Labels: Azure VM-Series VM-Series on Azure
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Defense-in-Depth Strategy With WAF and VM-Series NGFW

08-25-2022 — A look at the capabilities of web application firewalls (WAS) and Palo Alto Networks' VM-Series NGFW when working together and apart.

Labels: AWS Azure Cloud NGFW VM-Series
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Articles

Here's What You Missed — June Rewind

07-01-2021 — Catch up on everything the LIVEcommunity was up to during the month of June!

Labels: Community News VM-Series on Azure
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Open Source VM-Series Terraform Modules

05-04-2021 — A set of modules for using Palo Alto Networks VM-Series firewalls to provide control and protection to your applications running on Azure Cloud.

Labels: Strata Configure Strata Deploy Terraform VM-Series VM-Series on Azure
3611 by in Quickplay Solutions Archived Articles

Here's What You Missed - April Rewind

05-03-2021 — LIVEcommunity April Rewind It’s a new month so you know what that means… time for our monthly rewind! Let’s take a look back at April and see all of the exciting announcements and initiatives shared on the LIVEcommunity. It's Here - The Enhan...

Labels: April community Community Updates News VM-Series on Azure
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Firewall VM-Series

10-15-2020 — Firewall VM-Series: Overview (2 hrs) AWS (1.5 hrs) Azure (1.5 hrs) GCP (1.5 hrs)

Labels: Cloud VM-Series on AWS VM-Series on Azure
3485 1 by in Digital Learning Articles