The Azure Bastion service is a new service that provides secure and seamless RDP/SSH connectivity to your virtual machines directly in the Azure portal over SSL. When you connect via Azure Bastion, your virtual machines do not need a public IP address

 

 

With Azure Bastion, you connect to the virtual machine directly from the Azure portal. You don’t need an additional client, agent, or piece of software

Previously I demonstrated that how we can connect to this machine using RDP for Windows, SSH for Linux.

For more information you can access below link to get more info about this service

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/bastion/bastion-overview

Also here I have added sample network diagram from above link, to get clear idea.

 

Now I am going to demonstrate how to use the option called Azure Bastion for access the VM using web browser.

First we need to setup bastion Service.

So let’s go and set up a Bastion service.

We’re going to go under Operations and we can see Bastion 

In order to configure the Bastion service, first we need to configure different subnet.

In here I create 10.0.2.0/27 subnet, and I save the virtual subnet.

 

Now I need to create the Azure Bastion subnet using the previously created virtual subnetwork.

 

Now I can see the name for the Bastion and if I need I can do some additional configuration.

But in here I accept all the default settings for bastion and I select the option Create Azure bastion using Defaults.

 

 

So, after the deployment’s succeeded,

We can see here that it’s asking for the administrator user ID and password of the machine,

So I provide my Virtual Machine credentials

 

 

Now, basically I’m connecting into the virtual machine using a browser window. So how cool is that?

 

 

This is a better way of connecting to virtual machines that does not require RDP, SSH or even a public IP address on that virtual machine.

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