How to get a F5 BIG-IP VE Developer Lab License
Thanks for your personal effort on our behalf, WeaverJK. My comment is not a reflection on you (your effort today is deeply appreciated) but rather the company policy not to sell individual licenses. It's not practical for engineers to have to do this through their employment and contracts. Most of us have dev networks at home. We absolutely must have access to full lab licenses at home, so we can learn about modules that are out of work scope. This allows us to bolster our skill sets to qualify for other jobs as well as recommend services at work that are being ignored. Make no mistake, we are the ones primarily being unduly punished by this policy. But, I also think F5 is shooting itself in the sales foot by limiting exposure to its expanding product ecosystem by us, the engineers that make the F5 world go around. It is counterproductive from every perspective. I'm being forced to obtain licenses through my contractor POC (still unresolved, as I only have temp licenses). My goal is to setup and practice with containerization via NGINX, something under consideration but not embraced at work. Hopefully, this gets the point across.