A short exploration of options for connecting to resources with private VNETs in Azure. Focused on boutique dev work. Think access to state maintaining services like SQL databases, CosmosDB, Redis etc. Costs are indicative at time of writing. Costs vary between Azure regions. Figures are in AUD, multiply by .6 to get an approximate in USD. I haven’t considered use of Site to Site (S2S) VPNs to connect to existing Point to Site (P2S) VPNs here, if that connectivity is a requirement then these options are likely not relevant.

After well over a year without a post… Personal Update At the end of March 2024, my father died. May he rest in peace. With the process of grieving taking its natural course, this site went well on the back-burner, or even off the stove entirely for a time. The Migration Journey Then we moved house, and my Proxmox cluster turned back into a single node. I stayed up late one night and transitioned the site’s K3s stack on to an Azure VM as an interim measure.