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3 Ways to Connect BIG-IP to Istio

Istio, a service mesh, uses “zero trust” to authenticate services. We’ll look at 3 ways to connect BIG-IP to Istio. 1. TCP The first method that we will use will be TCP. This will allow the BIG-IP ...
Published Sep 10, 2019
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Apr 29, 2020

An important note is to ensure that the BIG-IP is forwarding the SNI header when using TLS. The following iRule is an example of how to do this. https://devcentral.f5.com/s/articles/serverside-sni-injection-irule-968