DevCentral Cloud Month – Week Four

What’s this week about? Ready for another week of Cloud Month on DevCentral? Suzanne, Hitesh, Greg, Marty and Lori are ready! Last week we looked at services, security, automation, migration, Ansible and other areas to focus on once you get your cloud running. We also had a cool Lightboard Lesson explaining BIG-IP in the public […] Continue reading DevCentral Cloud Month – Week Four

DevCentral Cloud Month – Week Four

What’s this week about? Ready for another week of Cloud Month on DevCentral? Suzanne, Hitesh, Greg, Marty and Lori are ready! Last week we looked at services, security, automation, migration, Ansible and other areas to focus on once you get your cloud running. We also had a cool Lightboard Lesson explaining BIG-IP in the public […] Continue reading DevCentral Cloud Month – Week Four

DevCentral Cloud Month – Week Three

What’s this week about? We hope you’re enjoying DevCentral’s Month thus far and Suzanne, Hitesh, Greg, Marty and Lori ready to go again this week. Last week we got you deployed in AWS and Kubernetes, learned the basics of Azure, got knee-deep in Cloud/Automated architectures and celebrated SOA’s survival. Now that your cloud is installed […] Continue reading DevCentral Cloud Month – Week Three

Device Discovery on BIG-IQ 5.1

The first step in using a BIG-IQ to manage BIG-IP devices BIG-IQ enables administrators to centrally manage BIG-IP infrastructure across the IT landscape.  BIG-IQ discovers, tracks, manages, and monitors physical and virtual BIG-IP devices – in the cloud, on premise, or co-located at your preferred datacenter. Let’s look at how to get BIG-IQ 5.1 to […] Continue reading Device Discovery on BIG-IQ 5.1

Updating an Auto-Scaled BIG-IP VE WAF in AWS

Update servers while continuing to process application traffic. Recently we’ve been showing how to deploy BIG-IP (and F5 WAF) in various clouds like Azure and AWS. Today, we’ll take a look at how to update an AWS auto-scaled BIG-IP VE web application firewall (WAF) that was initially created by using this F5 github template. This solution […] Continue reading Updating an Auto-Scaled BIG-IP VE WAF in AWS

Lightboard Lessons: What is BIG-IP?

In the early days of F5, BIG/IP was our original load balancer. Today, BIG-IP is a family of products covering software and hardware designed around application availability, access control, and security solutions. In this Lightboard Lesson, I light up the various BIG-IP modules and what they do. ps Related: What Is BIG-IP? Lightboard Lessons: BIG-IP Basic […] Continue reading Lightboard Lessons: What is BIG-IP?

Deploying F5’s Web Application Firewall in Microsoft Azure Security Center

Use F5’s Web Application Firewall (WAF) to protect web applications deployed in Microsoft Azure. Applications living in the Cloud still need protection. Data breaches, compromised credentials, system vulnerabilities, DDoS attacks and shared resources can all pose a threat to your cloud infrastructure. The Verizon DBIR notes that web application attacks are the most likely vector […] Continue reading Deploying F5’s Web Application Firewall in Microsoft Azure Security Center

DevCentral’s Featured Member for May – NTT Security’s Leonardo Souza

Leonardo Souza lives in the United Kingdom, with his partner, 5-year-old daughter, and a (very) recently newborn son. He’s Brazilian and lived in Portugal for quite a while. He then moved to UK about 5 years ago ‘because of the amazing weather,’ he jokes. Leonardo started to work with computers when he was 18 years […] Continue reading DevCentral’s Featured Member for May – NTT Security’s Leonardo Souza