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How does APIM work with Azure traffic manager?


In APIM we need to have a key that a client knows about: ocp-apim-subscription-key

What happens when traffic manager round robins to another server? Does the client need to know about the second subscription key?


Solution

  • Similar to Azure Traffic Manager and OAuth 2.0 , since Azure Traffic Manager operates at the DNS level, it is not a part of the client-server communication. Any authentication and key handoffs are transparent to Traffic Manager.

    Please refer to https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/traffic-manager-how-traffic-manager-works/#how-clients-connect-using-traffic-manager for more details