> any stage of the request or the response L4-L7 at FPGA speeds
I also work at F5, and used to work on the FPGA. This is unfortunately not true for TCL iRules. The FPGA basically only operates on L2-4, L7 is all software.
There was some talk about doing L7/iRules in an FPGA but prototypes never produced compelling enough performance gains to make it worth it.
I learn something new today - thanks.
"..a nice WebUI"
I challenge that assertion!
Re:Nginx to Be Acquired by F5 Networks
by throw0101a on Tuesday March 12, 2019 @10:18AM
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> I challenge that assertion!
For simple things it's adequate, but the fact that one can SSH is also helpful as there's a RHEL/CentOS base to work on. We're able to get Let's Encrypt working with a bash-only ACME client (dehydrated) is short order.
Heck, run Ansible on it:
* https://www.ansible.com/integrations/networks/f5 * https://github.com/F5Networks/f5-ansible
L4-L7 load balancing, distributed DNS, SSL offload, WAF, DPI, data centre firewall and other things. With a nice WebUI to configure all that.
The Tcl iRules allow you to hook into pretty much any stage of the request or the response L4-L7 at FPGA speeds to do whatever you wanted to the request / response data.
It's a very powerful product.