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Why does SSLO not support ACTIVE-ACTIVE mode deployments?
Why does SSLO not support ACTIVE-ACTIVE mode deployments?
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- adolph83wolfe
Nimbostratus
Hello!
SSLO typically doesn't support true Active-Active deployments due to the complexity of synchronizing stateful SSL/TLS sessions across multiple active instances, the challenges of consistent traffic steering and failover without session interruption or data loss, the need to prevent asymmetric traffic, and the overall increased complexity and resource demands. Consequently, most SSLO solutions favor an Active-Standby model for more reliable high availability.
- MyHomeNWLab
Altostratus
I think it is because iApps LX generates the configurations and iApps LX synchronizes them from Active to Standby via REST API.
I am guessing that this behavior is the reason why Active-Active is not supported.
Starting with v16.1.0-9.0, the configuration synchronization behavior has been changed to use the TMOS native MCP/CMI HA sync method.F5 SSL Orchestrator Release Notes version 16.1.0-9.0
https://techdocs.f5.com/kb/en-us/products/ssl-orchestrator/releasenotes/product/relnote-ssl-orchestrator-16-1-0-iapp-9-0.html
> SSO Control Plane re-architecture
> SSL Orchestrator 9.0 includes the following significant improvements to the control plane:
> The source-of-truth for the SSL Orchestrator configuration is now stored in the iFile objects. This allows the SSL Orchestrator to utilize native MCP/CMI HA sync functions and support automatic and incremental sync.
> The iApp strictness lock icon has been removed from several objects, excluding network and access objects allowing you to make out-of-band changes freely.
> The SSLO architecture now no longer uses the Gossip sync function to sync SSLO REST configuration. Maybe F5 Next can have this for the SSLO as it is more native module than iAppLX (nodejs) plugin on the clasical BIG-IP.
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