Questions tagged [f5]

F5 makes the BIG-IP application delivery controller (ADC). The BIG-IPs features are concerned with making applications run fast, highly-available, and secure. Better known for its L7 (HTTP) load-balancing functionality, F5 also delivers application (Layer 7) security and resilience services in both hardware and software form-factors.

The tag is for questions related to products by F5 Networks.

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Multiple Kubernetes namespace and single ingress host

I have a situation where multiple Kubernetes namespaces have been configured to use one ingress host. And the requests to K8s ingress controller will come from a load balancer F5. If a user sends a request to example.com/api/service1, that request…
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Least connection Load Balancing method in F5 not distributing traffic to all members

I'm new to troubleshooting load distribution on Load-balancer and need your help to troubleshoot one issue. There are 11 members of the pool but I see the request are going to only 2-3 at a time. When those servers gets exhausted due to load,I see…
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upload crt to f5-ltm using invoke-webrequest

I am trying to upload a ssl cert to the f5 REST API and haven't found anyone using powershell to do it. I have setup the invoke-webrequest around this page that is using curl f5-Dev-central the f5 is: BIG-IP 13.1.1 Build 0.0.4 Final i am getting the…
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Connect external load balancer to the on-premise service fabric cluster

How to connect external load balancer (for example F5) to the Service Fabric on-premise cluster? It's already done by Azure, since Service Fabric deployed in Azure with Azure LB make round-robin for stateless instances. Thanks.
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How to determine active F5 in device group via iControl REST API

I am looking for a way to determine which device in a device group (cluster) of F5 load balancers (LTMs) is "active" via the F5 iControl REST API. I have perused the entirety of the /sys endpoint where I would expect such information to be contained…
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F5 LTM on the same subnet

I am new to F5 BIG-IP, i can create the Virtual Server with pool and pool members to create a LTM for subnet A Virtual Server to subnet B servers. But when i configure the Virtual Server to load balance the servers on the same subnet, it just not…
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How to connect to an HTTPS URL from a JavaFX application

I have a Javafx application that sends GET and POST requests to a secure web service via HTTPS. The SSL setup on the server hosting the webservices is one-way ssl, i.e. the Javafx application validates the server's identity but the server does not…
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Access application portal from internet

There is a portal which is currently accessible through intranet. Say, the request comes first to F5 (internal load balancer of the organization) then F5 to portal connection is established. Now, due to need, want to publish the portal in internet.…
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Ansible: Combining 2 Lists by a Specific Attribute

I have 2 lists that I'm trying to combine together, by a specific attribute (the "device" attribute). I am not instantiating the lists in my code anywhere, they are being populated by API calls so the best I have here are printouts of each…
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Looping through Ansible Register output and printing the result as list

This is the sample task which give me the output which contains a list of self IPs. I want to capture this in Result and just print only the name of self IP. I was able to print if I give a list index, but I can't loop through it to capture it as a…
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How can I evaluate an ansible module manually?

I'm working with ansible and python, and I am making use of the f5networks module, particularly the bigip_device_info module. The module parameters are currently: user: The f5 host username password: The f5 host password validate_certs: A…
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Issue with using Omit option

I am trying configure a attribute only if my_int_http is defined else I dont want it. So I coded it like below: profiles: - "{{ my_int_L4 }}" - "{{ my_int_http | default(omit) }}" However my execution fail and when check the arguments…
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Load balancing in front of Traefik edge router

Looking at OpenShift HA proxy or Traefik project: https://docs.traefik.io/. I can see Traefik ingress controller is deployed as a DaemonSet. It enables to route traffic to correct services/endpoints using virtual host. Assuming I have a Kubernetes…
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Load balancer and WebSockets

Our infrastructure is composed by 1 F5 load balancer 3 nodes We have an application which uses websockets, so when a user goes to our site, it opens a websocket to the balancer which it connects to the first available node, and it works as…
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Using with_nested and Ansible

Would anyone be able to recommend a way to take the contents of two register variables and pass them into one command? While also lining up the results of the outputs from each variable in a 1:1 fashion. (ie. VS1:rule1, VS2:rule2, and so on from the…
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