Private connectivity using Azure Private Link
Note
Azure Private Link is supported only on Validata Cloud on Azure.
Azure Private Link is an Azure networking service that lets you access services (sources and targets) privately over the Microsoft backbone—without traversing the public internet. In Validata Cloud on Azure, private connectivity is supported in two ways:
Private endpoints: Connect Striim to Azure-managed services (e.g., Storage, SQL, Event Hubs) using Private Endpoints in your VNet.
Private Link Service: For self-managed services, that is on-premise services, or services on Azure VMs, or in other clouds, publish a Private Link Service behind a Standard Internal Load Balancer (and, if needed, a forwarding VM) so Striim can reach those services privately.
Note
Your Validata Cloud bill can increase when you enable Azure Private Link as a result of increased compute and data transfer costs. For details, contact your Striim account representative.
Proceed to the sections below for step-by-step setup by service type:
Automation
Striim provides a Terraform automation to set up private connectivity for on-premises and cross-cloud databases through your Azure tenant.
The module provisions the required Azure infrastructure:
A Virtual Machine (VM) with port-forwarding rules,
A Standard Internal Load Balancer (ILB) with health probe and NAT/load-balancing rules,
An Azure Private Link service attached to the ILB.
See Automating the Azure Private Link integration for the step-by-step procedure.
For an introduction to Azure private endpoints and Azure Private link, see: