Practical considerations for using Azure internal load balancer and BIG-IP

Background I recently had a scenario that required me to do some testing and I thought it would be a good opportunity to share. A user told me that he wants to put BIG-IP in Azure, but he has a few...
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Apr 20, 2020

Hi Sajid,

Fair qu. Now that you've deleted the external LB, you'll want to replace it with an internal LB. Also, if this is in your existing network, you may want to remove the public IP addresses from the mgmt interfaces. You'll have to SourceNAT on the F5 BIG-IP if you don't want to dynamically update routes on failover.