Tip of the week:

If you're an instrumentalist and want to be in a music video, AubreyKingF5 might be able to feature you!

Forum post highlights:

End of Year 2022 security challenges and new year wishes by Lior_Rotkovitch
iRules Style Guide by JRahm
How to automate licenses management on F5 BIG-IP via BIG-IQ License Manager ( Part-1 ) by Gavin_Wu Gavin_Wu
How to automate licenses management on F5 BIG-IP via BIG-IQ License Manager ( Part-2 ) by Gavin_Wu
PSFletchTheTek wanted information about MITRE and waf alarms being cross reference able to the framework so I could like at putting them into a siem/soar solution and F5_Design_Engineer dropped a bunch of knowledge
T0nyP is getting started with API Security and Nikoolayy1 assigned some not-light reading

Unanswered questions:

kp05 still wants to know if Telemetry Streaming generic HTTP push consumer forwards events to cloud SIEM platform
cmac69 has a question about configurating tuning to limit the flow of data for a series of port numbers through BigIP 5250
shashe is trying to allow VPN connections from Edgeclients only
jlarger wants to know if f5-service-discovery-1.0.0-1.noarch.rpm still supported?
PaulH316 is trying to understand whether he's come across a known issue with Ansible bigIp collections

Notable solutions:

mmsuwaid had a question about Migrating older F5 BIG-IP has 3 partitions & Route Domains (RD) to new F5 BIG-IP with 2 partion & RD and F5_Design_Engineer came through with a detailed explanation
prajith_nsg had an issue with their BIGIP unable to send tcp/udp packets to syslog servers and CA_Valli came through with the solution
ecwlam needed help writing an iRule with uri redirection and muhamed_elfiky had them covered

Weekly stats (excluding F5 employees):

Most kudoed authors

Gave the most kudos:

BONUS Top 10 stats (includes F5ers)

It is the end of the year, and that seems like a good time to show some stats for the year, as well as an all-time update for Accepted Solutions. 🙂

Top 10 kudoed authors in 2022

Most prolific kudos-givers in 2022

BONUS bonus: users with the most Accepted Solutions - ALL-TIME

Dario_Garrido - 100 (!!!)
Enes_Afsin_Al - 70
Daniel_Wolf - 47
Nikoolayy1 - 46
JRahm - 40
Mohamed_Ahmed_Kansoh - 40
Lidev - 39
Mayur_Sutare - 39
boneyard - 36

I hope that everyone has enjoyed the holidays, and that 2023 is better in every way for everyone than the closing year has been. The DevCentral team is around through the end of the year, and I'm personally looking forward to announcing the new 2023 DevCentral MVP cohort on Monday, January 2. Keep an eye out to see whose outstanding contributions to the community over the past year we get to celebrate!

Community Highlights, Week 52 '22 + bonus year-end content