Azure Getting Started

This guide provides information to get you signed up for the Aviatrix Cloud Network Security Platform-as-a Service (Aviatrix PaaS) waitlist. Once you are approved and given access to Aviatrix PaaS, this guide will step you through onboarding your cloud account and Azure network to the Aviatrix Platform.

For information about how Aviatrix PaaS can help make your network more secure and manage it more efficiently, see:

What Is Aviatrix PaaS?

Preparing to Use Aviatrix PaaS

Supported Browsers

Aviatrix recommends using the latest version of the following browsers.

  • Chrome: Use with Mac, Windows, or Linux

  • Edge: Use with Windows

Supported Email Clients

  • Gmail

  • Apple Mail

  • Outlook

  • Yahoo! Mail

  • HEY

  • Superhuman

Sign Up with Aviatrix Cloud Network Security PaaS

You can request a 30-day free trial subscription to the Aviatrix Cloud Network Security Platform-as-a-Service (Aviatrix PaaS) from aviatrix.com/aviatrix-paas.

If you have been pre-approved for the free trial, you will be able to sign in to the Aviatrix Platform from console.cloud.aviatrix.com. See Sign In to Aviatrix PaaS.

If you are not a pre-approved customer, then when you submit your request for the free trial you will be put on a waitlist. An Aviatrix representative will contact you to determine if you meet the requirements for an Aviatrix free trial license.

To request a full Aviatrix PaaS license, contact Aviatrix Sales.

Sign Up from Aviatrix.com for a Free Trial

Currently, there are specific requirements that must be met to use Aviatrix PaaS. Therefore, when you sign up for an Aviatrix PaaS 30-day free trial, you are put on a waitlist and contacted by Aviatrix.

If it is determined that you meet the criteria, you will be given access to the platform.

  1. Go to aviatrix.com/aviatrix-paas to join the Aviatrix PaaS waitlist.

  2. On the Aviatrix PaaS page, click Register Now.

  3. On the Join the Waitlist page:

    1. Enter a valid business email address.

    2. Select the country from which you are signing up.

    3. Click Join the Waitlist.

      You receive an acknowledgment email.

    An Aviatrix representative will contact you in the coming days to determine if you meet the requirements for an Aviatrix PaaS free trial license. If you qualify, an email will be sent to you to complete the sign-up process.

  4. In the email sent to you, click the Complete Sign Up & Begin Trial link.

    The email link is valid for only 20 minutes.

  5. Enter the email address that you originally signed up with and click Sign In.

    Your Aviatrix PaaS console opens.

    To log in to the Aviatrix PaaS console in the future, go to console.cloud.aviatrix.com and click Sign In. Your email address is your username.

Next step: Onboard your cloud account.

Onboard Your Cloud Account

After signing up with Aviatrix PaaS, the Aviatrix Platform opens to a Welcome page. From this page you can connect your cloud accounts with the Aviatrix Platform. The onboarding process creates the Azure roles and resources required for Aviatrix Platform to monitor and manage your Azure network.

  1. On Welcome to Aviatrix PaaS, click Let’s Begin.

  2. In Begin Aviatrix Journey, select Azure.

  3. Enter the following required IDs from your Azure account.

    If you are uncertain how to collect this information, see Gather Information for Azure Onboarding.

    • Subscription ID

    • Directory ID

    • Application ID

    • Client Secret

  4. Click Next.

    As your account is onboarded, the cloud assets in your account are discovered. When the discovery process completes, a success message displays with an overview of the assets in your network.

  5. Click Done.

    Your onboarded regions display in the Dashboard geographic map.

If you want to onboard another cloud account, you can do so from Cloud Resources > Cloud Accounts.

Next Step: Onboard your VPCs or VNets.

Onboard a VPC or VNet

After onboarding your cloud account in Aviatrix, the VPCs or VNets and VMs associated with the account display as unmanaged resources in the UI.

To bring the resources under Aviatrix management, you must onboard the VPCs or VNets. During onboarding, an Aviatrix Spoke Gateway is created on each managed subnet in the VPC or VNet.

It is recommended that you deploy each VPC or VNet with at least two subnets in two different zones to provide high availability.

You can onboard only one VPC or VNet at a time, but you can begin the onboarding process for multiple VPCs or VNets at one time. You do not have to wait until a VPC or VNet finishes onboarding to start onboarding another one.

To onboard your VPCs or VNets, do the following.

  1. Go to Cloud Resources > Cloud Assets > VPC/VNets & Subnets.

  2. Click the Onboard link for a VPC or VNet you want Aviatrix to manage.

    You can only onboard resources that have public IPs. By default, the 10.0.0.0/16 CIDRs are private.

  3. On Onboard a VPC/VNet you can do the following:

    1. From Performance Size, select the instance size for your VPC or VNet.

      The recommended default size is Medium.

    2. Remove a subnet from the onboarding list by clicking the "x" next to the subnet IP address.

      This action only removes the subnet from being managed, it does not remove the subnet from the VPC or VNet.

    3. Add a subnet to the list by clicking the down arrow and selecting the subnet IP address.

    4. Click Onboard.

      The Aviatrix Managed column changes status to In Progress. When onboarding of all subnets for the VPC or VNet is complete, status changes to Yes.

  4. Expand the VPC or VNet listing to see the status of individual subnets in the VPC or VNet.

As subnets are onboarded, they appear in the Cloud Fabric > Topology map.

You can offboard a VPC or VNet from the Aviatrix Platform by using the Manage menu.

Next Step: Apply security to your VPCs or VNets using either the Distributed Cloud Firewall (DCF) or Egress Security workflow.