services should be back up - power outage

[Chirana Gheorghita Eugeniu Theodor]

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 <
subsurface at subsurface-divelog.org> wrote:

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> > On 20201001, at 22:08, Attilla de Groot <attilla at attilla.nl> 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 <
> office at adaptcom.ro> 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 <
> office at adaptcom.ro> 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 <dirk at hohndel.org> 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
> >
>
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