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shadow_82's avatar
shadow_82
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May 13, 2022

F5 cluster in Azure - why ALB is suggested in fornt?

Hi! Recently we are building F5 cluster in Azure. Regular stuff, with VIPs and RServers behind the F5, maybe SSL termination. Initially we wanted to build it in classic way. Public IP in front + DN...
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ragunath154's avatar
ragunath154
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May 15, 2022

If you are using Active/Standby HA then Azure ALB will be useful in sending traffic to active device based on health check configured in ALB.

In cloudn GARP not possible , so floating IP concept will not shift to active device during failover,

to achive Floating ip scnerio use the F5 AZURE ARM template API based.

i suggest to use the F5 ARM template, which has both options with ALB with API HA setup deployement.

ref the below link for F5 office ARM template.

https://github.com/F5Networks/f5-azure-arm-templates/tree/main/supported/failover/same-net

https://github.com/F5Networks/f5-azure-arm-templates