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Getting Started with iRules LX, Part 1: Introduction & Conceptual Overview

What is iRules LX? When BIG-IP TMOS 12.1.0 released a couple weeks ago, Danny wrote an intro piece to a new feature called iRules LX. iRules LX is the next generation of iRules that allows you to ...
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Nov 17, 2017

This is a really awesome article series. I just wanted to thank you for writing it, because it covers in detail just about everything one could want to know when working with iRulesLX, including all the architectural information needed to make it perform well. This is definitely THE guide for someone starting out with iRulesLX.

 

I already have used this information to get my first iRulesLX project going. This is definitely a game changing technology. With TCL iRules, F5 was by far the most flexible product on the market, but there were still some limits. With iRulesLX, it feels like almost all limits to what can be done with F5 have been removed. The only ones left are available hardware resources, time available for doing a project, and a person's familiarity with Javascript.