Yep you are right. Than a more complex solution is needed with costs kept as low as possible
On Thu, Oct 1, 2020, 23:59 Jeroen Massar via subsurface < [email protected]> wrote: > > > > On 20201001, at 22:08, Attilla de Groot <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I’m not familiar with all the details, but an F5 is probably an overkill > and you can acomplish the same thing with quite a simple nginx setup. ;-) > > BIG-IP is indeed effectively an old Red-Hat, with Apache, Zebra (not even > Quagga) and some other bits and pieces and a big API and UI around it. > The good old hardware boxes with SSL accelerator cards where quite cool, > but we have modern software and hardware-accelerated crypto in CPUs > nowadays, which is exactly what the 'virtual' version does. > > > As you say, you can just use F5's nginx (yes, they bought that) if you > want load-balancing and whatever BGP daemon if you want to go there. > > Using a proprietary box like that for a open source project is also odd, > especially as it runs mostly on open software that is an apt-get and > ansible/puppet/choose-your-poison away. > > And as I understand Dirk is just using a NUC at the moment, if that is not > sufficient, upgrading that single box is much much easier than using an > overloaded VM for little gain... > > > > Also BIG-IP does not solve data sync between an active/passive host which > is an actual concern from what I understand (can be off there ;) . > > Greets, > Jeroen > > > >> On 1 Oct 2020, at 21:51, Chirana Gheorghita Eugeniu Theodor < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> This can solve the issue of transaction loss if a switch from active to > standby ocures. But I think there are also some open source variants of the > F5 > >> > >> On Thu, Oct 1, 2020, 22:49 Chirana Gheorghita Eugeniu Theodor < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> The virtual version of the F5 bigip load balacer. The vm can be run in > any virtial enviroment. > >> > >> On Thu, Oct 1, 2020, 22:06 Dirk Hohndel <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> > >>> On Oct 1, 2020, at 11:23 AM, Chirana Gheorghita Eugeniu Theodor wrote: > >>> > >>> Or we could sponsor a F5 bigip virtual appliance and that should solve > the load balancing. Correct me if I am wrong. > >> > >> I don't even know what that is :-) > >> > >> /D > > > > _______________________________________________ > subsurface mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.subsurface-divelog.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/subsurface >
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