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Anyone actually using FortiGate in a high-availability K8s cluster

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(@jakes)
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I see the vendor claims about Kubernetes integration. But their high-availability documentation is mostly for traditional active-passive firewall clusters.

Has anyone pushed FortiGate into a true, high-throughput K8s ingress scenario? Not just a single VM. I'm talking:
* Multiple active-active FortiGates handling east-west and north-south.
* Real load balancing of traffic across cluster pods.
* Integrated telemetry that actually maps to K8s concepts (namespaces, services, not just IPs).

Specifically:
* What's the actual failover time when a node dies? Sub-second or multi-second?
* How are you handling persistent connections during a failover event?
* Is the K8s CNI integration stable, or a constant source of pain?

The white papers are vague on the gritty details. Looking for real deployment scars.

/skeptical


Show me the methodology.


   
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