Quickstart: Create an Azure Front Door using Azure PowerShell

2025-07-23

Applies to: ✔️ Front Door Standard ✔️ Front Door Premium

In this quickstart, you learn how to create an Azure Front Door profile using Azure PowerShell. You use two Web Apps as your origin and verify connectivity through the Azure Front Door endpoint hostname.

Diagram of Azure Front Door deployment environment using the Azure PowerShell.

Note

For web workloads, we highly recommend utilizing Azure DDoS protection and a web application firewall to safeguard against emerging DDoS attacks. Another option is to employ Azure Front Door along with a web application firewall. Azure Front Door offers platform-level protection against network-level DDoS attacks. For more information, see security baseline for Azure services.

Prerequisites

An Azure account with an active subscription. Create an account.
Azure PowerShell installed locally.

Note

We recommend that you use the Azure Az PowerShell module to interact with Azure. See Install Azure PowerShell to get started. To learn how to migrate to the Az PowerShell module, see Migrate Azure PowerShell from AzureRM to Az.

Create a resource group

Create a resource group with New-AzResourceGroup:

New-AzResourceGroup -Name myRGFD -Location chinanorth2

Create two web app instances

Create two web app instances in different Azure regions using New-AzWebApp:

# Create first web app in China North 3 region.
$webapp1 = New-AzWebApp `
    -Name "WebAppContoso-01" `
    -Location chinanorth3 `
    -ResourceGroupName myRGFD `
    -AppServicePlan myAppServicePlanchinanorth3

# Create second web app in China East 2 region.
$webapp2 = New-AzWebApp `
    -Name "WebAppContoso-02" `
    -Location ChinaEast2 `
    -ResourceGroupName myRGFD `
    -AppServicePlan myAppServicePlanChinaEast2

Create an Azure Front Door

Create an Azure Front Door profile

Run New-AzFrontDoorCdnProfile to create an Azure Front Door profile:

$fdprofile = New-AzFrontDoorCdnProfile `
    -ResourceGroupName myRGFD `
    -Name contosoAFD `
    -SkuName Premium_AzureFrontDoor `
    -Location Global

Add an endpoint

Run New-AzFrontDoorCdnEndpoint to create an endpoint in your profile:

$FDendpoint = New-AzFrontDoorCdnEndpoint `
    -EndpointName contosofrontend `
    -ProfileName contosoAFD `
    -ResourceGroupName myRGFD `
    -Location Global

Create an origin group

Create health probe and load balancing settings, then create an origin group using New-AzFrontDoorCdnOriginGroup:

# Create health probe settings
$HealthProbeSetting = New-AzFrontDoorCdnOriginGroupHealthProbeSettingObject `
    -ProbeIntervalInSecond 60 `
    -ProbePath "/" `
    -ProbeRequestType GET `
    -ProbeProtocol Http

# Create load balancing settings
$LoadBalancingSetting = New-AzFrontDoorCdnOriginGroupLoadBalancingSettingObject `
    -AdditionalLatencyInMillisecond 50 `
    -SampleSize 4 `
    -SuccessfulSamplesRequired 3

# Create origin group
$originpool = New-AzFrontDoorCdnOriginGroup `
    -OriginGroupName og `
    -ProfileName contosoAFD `
    -ResourceGroupName myRGFD `
    -HealthProbeSetting $HealthProbeSetting `
    -LoadBalancingSetting $LoadBalancingSetting

Add origins to the group

Add your Web App origins to the origin group using New-AzFrontDoorCdnOrigin:

# Add first web app origin to origin group.
$origin1 = New-AzFrontDoorCdnOrigin `
    -OriginGroupName og `
    -OriginName contoso1 `
    -ProfileName contosoAFD `
    -ResourceGroupName myRGFD `
    -HostName webappcontoso-01.chinacloudsites.cn `
    -OriginHostHeader webappcontoso-01.chinacloudsites.cn `
    -HttpPort 80 `
    -HttpsPort 443 `
    -Priority 1 `
    -Weight 1000

# Add second web app origin to origin group.
$origin2 = New-AzFrontDoorCdnOrigin `
    -OriginGroupName og `
    -OriginName contoso2 `
    -ProfileName contosoAFD `
    -ResourceGroupName myRGFD `
    -HostName webappcontoso-02.chinacloudsites.cn `
    -OriginHostHeader webappcontoso-02.chinacloudsites.cn `
    -HttpPort 80 `
    -HttpsPort 443 `
    -Priority 1 `
    -Weight 1000

Add a route

Map your endpoint to the origin group using New-AzFrontDoorCdnRoute:

$Route = New-AzFrontDoorCdnRoute `
    -EndpointName contosofrontend `
    -Name defaultroute `
    -ProfileName contosoAFD `
    -ResourceGroupName myRGFD `
    -ForwardingProtocol MatchRequest `
    -HttpsRedirect Enabled `
    -LinkToDefaultDomain Enabled `
    -OriginGroupId $originpool.Id `
    -SupportedProtocol Http,Https

Test the Azure Front Door

After you create the Azure Front Door profile, it takes a few minutes for the configuration to be deployed globally. Once completed, access the frontend host you created.

Run Get-AzFrontDoorCdnEndpoint to get the hostname of the Azure Front Door endpoint:

$fd = Get-AzFrontDoorCdnEndpoint `
    -EndpointName contosofrontend `
    -ProfileName contosoafd `
    -ResourceGroupName myRGFD

$fd.hostname

In a browser, go to the endpoint hostname: contosofrontend-<hash>.z01.azurefd.net. Your request is routed to the web app with the lowest latency in the origin group.

Screenshot of the message: Your web app is running and waiting for your content.

To test instant global failover:

Open a browser and go to the endpoint hostname: contosofrontend-<hash>.z01.azurefd.net.

Stop one of the Web Apps by running Stop-AzWebApp:

Stop-AzWebApp -ResourceGroupName myRGFD -Name "WebAppContoso-01"

Refresh your browser. You should see the same information page.

Stop the other web app:

Stop-AzWebApp -ResourceGroupName myRGFD -Name "WebAppContoso-02"

Refresh your browser. This time, you should see an error message.
Restart one of the Web Apps by running Start-AzWebApp. Refresh your browser and the page go back to normal:
```
Start-AzWebApp -ResourceGroupName myRGFD -Name "WebAppContoso-01"
```

Clean up resources

When you no longer need the resources created with the Azure Front Door, delete the resource group. This action deletes the Azure Front Door and all its related resources. Run Remove-AzResourceGroup:

Remove-AzResourceGroup -Name myRGFD