Bug ID 1696993: F5ingress fails to redeploy on a new node after current node failure

Last Modified: Nov 29, 2025

Affected Product(s):
BIG_IP_NEXT(CNF) CNF(all modules)

Known Affected Versions:
1.3.1, 1.3.2, 1.3.3

Fixed In:
1.4.0

Opened: Oct 15, 2024

Severity: 1-Blocking

Symptoms

When the node hosting the f5ingress pod goes down or fails, the f5ingress pod encounters an error and fails to redeploy on another node.

Impact

New configurations will not be applied to existing pods. Additionally, existing configurations will not be applied to newly deployed pods or pods that are restarted or scaled up.

Conditions

The node hosting the f5ingress pod goes down. In the Kubernetes manager logs, the following message is observed for the f5ingress pod: ".env: duplicate entries for key [name=\"GRPC_SERVICE_NAME\"]"

Workaround

Edit the f5ingress deployment and remove the duplicate entry for GRPC_SERVICE_NAME in the 'env' section of the f5ingress container.

Fix Information

Remove gRPC service name field from extraEnvs in TMM values file.

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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