the worlds gone mad

we've lost the hope we had

Posted on 10 March 2023   15 min read

F5 BIG-IP HA LTM in Azure

deploying ltm ha pair in azure

This post goes through the deployment of a HA pair of F5 BIG-IP LTMs in Azure. Like with most vendors the F5 solutions is documented as part of ARM templates, I personally prefer to pick these things apart and first build them manually to better understand what is going on under the hood. A more cynical person may suggest they do this on purpose to try and hide all the fudges needed to make their solution work in a public cloud.


Posted on 26 November 2017   11 min read

vCentre in Azure

vcentre in azure over ipsec and gre

A recent project I was working on involved the need to join a new office to our existing Data Centres and OSPF core using a Gig circuit over the Internet. To flesh out this idea and test its viability I thought I would try and solve an ESX capacity problem I have at home by moving vCentre into the cloud.