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		dijit on April 16, 2025 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: TLS certificate lifetimes will officially reduce t... Sounds suspiciously similar to a rube goldberg machine. Those tend to be quite brittle in reality. What’s the old adage about engineering vs architecture again? Something like this I think: https://www.reddit.com/r/PeterExplainsTheJoke/comments/16141...

cpach on April 17, 2025 [–]

Obviously it would be much better if BIG IP had native support for ACME. And F5 might implement it some day, but I wouldn’t hold my breath.

For some companies, it might be worth it to throw away a $100000 device and buy something better. For others it might not be worth it.

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