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BK1's avatar
BK1
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Apr 16, 2021

Efficient way to manage apps

Hi, is there any recommendations or best practices to manage multiple apps or urls using one single virtual server?
application delivery
iRules
LTM
  • Mayur_Sutare's avatar
    Mayur_Sutare
    Apr 16, 2021

    Another approach would be, you will have the one virtual server listening on 443. Here assuming that all your external services would be accessible on https(443 port). And backend apps/server port would be anything. With this you have options to use either LTM policy or iRule to manage traffic and forwarding it to desired pool based on the host. Below post talks about the same use case using iRule.

     

    https://devcentral.f5.com/s/question/0D51T00007MxMr8SAF/multiple-web-applications-behind-single-vs

     

     

    Hope it helps!

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jaikumar_f5
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Apr 16, 2021

There's many ways to do this, but it matters on specification & requirement.

You can use a single VIP & put irule to route to different pools based on the host header too. So its just 1 VIP, multiple pools inside it. But make sure your VIP doesn't go bottleneck on peak traffic,,,