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ChetanAr_315803
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Jun 19, 2018

gRPC load balancing with F5 and nginx

I've a requirement of using gRPC through F5 using nginx at the server level which will convert port 80 to gRPC port (50001). Flow would be like: Client will hit F5 over port 443 which invariably will...
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ChetanAr_315803
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Jul 11, 2018

So gRPC uses HTTP/2 for server side connection. While troubleshooting further, F5 is converting HTTP/2 request to HTTP/1.1 at server side hence gRPC connection is failing. Any idea if F5 support HTTP/2 at server side?