Ensure load balancer is enabled for Azure Front Door

MEDIUM

Description

Disabled Azure Front Door load balancer may lead to less fault-tolerant services.

Remediation

In Azure Console -

  1. Open the Azure Portal and go to Front Door and CDN profiles.
  2. Select the Front Door profile you wish to edit.
  3. Under Endpoints, select the endpoint you wish to enable.
  4. Select Start.

In Terraform -
For Azure Provider versions prior to v4.x (deprecated in favor of azurerm_cdn_frontdoor resources):

  1. In the azurerm_frontdoor resource, set load_balancer_enabled to true.

References:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/frontdoor/
https://registry.terraform.io/providers/hashicorp/azurerm/latest/docs/resources/frontdoor

Policy Details

Rule Reference ID: AC_AZURE_0180
CSP: Azure
Remediation Available: Yes
Domain: Resilience
Resource Category: Virtual Network
Resource Type: Front Door

Frameworks