Monday, July 26, 2021

F5 Load Balancing / WAF alternatives

Hey /r/networking,

A previous thread I posted in the sysadmin subreddit led me to the F5 Big IP virtual appliance.

I just got out of the meeting with them and the list price is $2800 for just the load balancing (partners get it for much less), and another whopping $6,800 for the WAF.

My question - is there another comparable service that is more cost effective. While we are prepared to spend $2800 if necessary we would like to avoid it.

This is for balancing Kubernetes ingress across a multi-master cluster with NGINX ingress controllers running on each worker. Each worker has the same ports for HTTP and HTTPS.

Thank you!



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