Create a firewall rule on Azure

Configure Azure firewall for Jenkins

To allow external traffic on port 8080 for your application running on an Azure virtual machine, open the port in the Network Security Group (NSG) attached to the virtual machine’s network interface or subnet.

Create a firewall rule in Azure

To expose the TCP port 8080, create a firewall rule.

Navigate to the Azure Portal , go to Virtual Machines, and select your virtual machine.

Virtual Machines

In the left menu, select Networking and in the Networking select Network settings that is associated with the virtual machine’s network interface.

Network settings

Navigate to Create port rule, and select Inbound port rule.

Create rule

Configure it using the following details. After filling in the details, select Add to save the rule.

Network settings

The network firewall rule is now created.