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Amit585731
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Aug 19, 2019

F5 installation on Azure

Hi Members, I am starting to learn public cloud and need your suggestion on the installation of F5 on the Azure platform. As per multiple blogs, I can understand that the arch followed by the organiz...
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KeesvandenBos
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Aug 20, 2019

Hi,

 

Are you refering to: https://azure-f5-lab-days.readthedocs.io/en/latest/class1/module3/lab1.html?

 

In this setup the Azure load balancer is pointing to the self-ip's of the two big-ip's. That's why a 0.0.0.0/0 virtual server is created, The BIG-IP is not doing to load balance traffic that is being send to the self-ip, only to virtual servers.

 

Personally I don't like this setup, it is not possible to determine the status of individual applications.

 

I would run GTM/DNS on the BIG-IP's and relplace the External ALB with GSLB, this enable the setup with a block of IP addresses for VS's.

 

With the wildcard destination you have to build a layered virtual server setup (vs targeting vs) with a traffic policy to configure multiple applications behind the wildcard listener.

 

Cheers,

 

Kees