Our developers and I&O team are interested in migrating from our F5 to an application gateway. We currently use an F5, and occasionally developers or I&O want to connect to a specific node behind the F5 without modifying their local hosts file to connect to the machine directly. We set up a special cookie that, when set, will route the traffic to a specific node based on the cookie content.
It looks like this:
NodeSelect=Node1
Is it possible to set up an azure application gateway in the same manner? I have been unable to find a way to route traffic to a specific node other than perhaps setting up URL based routing to a specific POOL based on the URL. I suppose I could try to create a separate pool for each node, but I'd still prefer cookie based node selection rather than URL.