Using azure privatedns with notificationhub

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To set up Azure Notification Hubs with a private DNS, you'll need to go through several steps. Azure Notification Hubs provide a scalable, mobile push notification engine for quickly sending millions of messages to applications running on various types of devices. Azure Private DNS zones provide a reliable and secure DNS service to manage and resolve domain names in a virtual network without needing to add a custom DNS solution.

Here's a breakdown of what each involved service does and how they interact:

1. **Azure Notification Hubs**: They enable secure and scalable push notifications for any platform from any backend (cloud or on-premises).
   
2. **Azure Private DNS**: This provides a simple, reliable, secure DNS service to manage and resolve domain names in a virtual network.

To use Azure Notification Hubs within the context of a private network, you might want to ensure that the push notification traffic flows through a private endpoint inside your virtual network to enhance security and control. By doing so, the Notification Hub can be accessed via Azure Private Link, which prevents data from being exposed to the public internet.

Below is a Pulumi program in TypeScript that creates an Azure Notification Hub and sets up a private DNS zone:

```typescript
import * as azure from "@pulumi/azure-native";

const resourceGroupName = "my-notification-rg";
const location = "West Europe";

// Create an Azure Resource Group
const resourceGroup = new azure.resources.ResourceGroup(resourceGroupName, {
    location,
});

// Create an Azure Notification Hubs Namespace
const namespace = new azure.notificationhubs.Namespace("myNamespace", {
    namespaceName: "myNamespace",
    location,
    resourceGroupName: resourceGroupName,
    sku: {
        name: "Standard", // Choose the appropriate SKU for your use case
    },
});

// Create an Azure Notification Hub in the Namespace
const notificationHub = new azure.notificationhubs.NotificationHub("myNotificationHub", {
    namespaceName: namespace.name,
    location,
    resourceGroupName: resourceGroupName,
    // Other properties like Authorization Rules can be added here.
});

// Create an Azure Private DNS Zone
const privateDnsZone = new azure.network.PrivateZone("privateZone", {
    location: "global",
    resourceGroupName: resourceGroupName,
    privateZoneName: "privatelink.servicebus.windows.net", // Use appropriate zone name for your service
});

// Output the primary connection string for the Notification Hub
export const primaryConnectionString = notificationHub.primaryConnectionString;
```

### Explanation:

- **Resource Group**: A container that holds related resources for an Azure solution. The Resource Group includes those resources that you want to manage as a group.

- **Notification Hubs Namespace**: The namespace is a container for all your notification hubs in Azure. It's similar to a naming scope and ensures the uniqueness of your hubs across Azure.

- **Notification Hub**: Represents the push notification service itself through which you can send push notifications to your application.

- **Private DNS Zone**: To secure and isolate the network traffic to your Notification Hub, you create a Private DNS Zone. This zone will resolve the domain names of the services within the virtual network where the Notification Hub is accessed.

This program will create an Azure private DNS Zone and an Azure Notification Hub. The Notification Hub's primary connection string is exported so it can be used in your application or other services to send notifications.

Please ensure you have Pulumi installed and configured with Azure credentials. To create these resources, save the code to a file (e.g., `index.ts`), and run `pulumi up` on the terminal. The command will use the Pulumi Azure Native provider to provision resources in your Azure subscription.

Keep in mind that if you wish to access the Notification Hub only through this private endpoint, further configuration will be necessary, where you need to create a private endpoint and establish a link to the Notification Hub. The above program assumes that `azure-native` will resolve to the latest version that supports all listed resources; ensure that your `package.json` reflects the correct versions of Pulumi SDKs.