Big-IP Layer 2 networking in OCI (Oracle Cloud)
HI Devcentral, I am workingon POC in Oracle cloud. So I am deploying an HA pair of VEs based on F5 doc.No issues there following documentation. Learning all the nonsense about the requirement to move virtual server IPs from vnic on active to standby via API call. Also, I came acrossOCI documentation for L2 supportMy POC environmenthas VLAN feature available so I was able implement external network as a L2 VLAN. In this case no API calls are needed to move failover objects (virtual servers) form active to standbyas Big-IP handlesit natively. Aslo, with virtuals on L2 network, failover is some much quciker, virtually seamless in conrast with L3 taking up to 15 seconds for traffic flow to restore. When I reached out to Oracle for clarification I am getting sketchy responses that L2 as feature is not fully supported and I should not be using it. This sounds strange to me. Has anybody successfullyimplemented L2 networking in OCI with Big-IPs? Are there any under water rocks with L2? Please, share your experienceif possible. Tanks in advance.