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SSL Orchestrator Advanced Use Cases: Forward Proxy Authentication

Introduction F5 BIG-IP is synonymous with "flexibility". You likely have few other devices in your architecture that provide the breadth of capabilities that come native with the BIG-IP platform. ...
Published Nov 17, 2020
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dragonflymr
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Dec 03, 2020

Hi,

Great article. I Am just curious if it is possible and what is opinion about using APM as a service in Service Chain (like ASM for example). So authentication is not done at the SSLO but rather selectively after decrypting by sending traffic to APM device configured as Service. Possible? Seems to be a little beet "cleaner" way than creating frontend VS and then steer traffic that needs to be authenticated to given Topology. Will appreciate a lot your opinion abut that type of implementation.

Piotr