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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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Last week we talked about how HA Groups work on BIG-IP and this week we’ll look at how to configure HA Groups on BIG-IP. To recap, an HA group is a configuration object you create and assign to a traffic group for devices in a device group. An HA group defines health criteria for a resource […]
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BIG-IP can manage application-specific network traffic in a variety of ways, depending on the protocols and services being used. On BIG-IP, Profiles are a set of tools that you can use to intelligently control the behavior of that traffic. In this Lightboard Lesson, I light up the BIG-IP Profiles. What they are, what they do […]
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High Availability of applications is critical to an organization’s survival. On BIG-IP, HA Groups is a feature that allows BIG-IP to fail over automatically based not on the health of the BIG-IP system itself but rather on the health of external resources within a traffic group. These external resources include the health and availability of […]
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Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates allow you to repeatedly deploy applications with confidence. The resources are deployed in a consistent state and you can easily manage and visualize resources for your application. ARM templates take the guesswork out of creating repeatable applications and environments. Deploy and deploy again, consistently. Let’s walk through how to deploy […]
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