Community Highlights, Week 3 '23

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Tip of the week:

Check out the Events tab to find out about upcoming free technically-focused events for F5 users, like:

• Berlin Solution Day (18 Januar)
• Boston F5 User Group (January 18)
• NAMER F5 Test Drive Lab: Exploring & Enabling Automation w/Red Hat Ansible on F5 BIG-IP (Basics) (January 24)
• Charlotte F5 User Group (January 25)

 

Content you may have missed:

•  @JRahm hosted Sharpening Your Tools: Advent of Code with iRules (to fget advanced notice about his pop-up coding sessions, make sure to join the DevCentral Connects Group) 

•  @MichaelOLeary wrote Kubernetes architecture options with F5 Distributed Cloud Services

 

Forum post highlights: 

• @tub91 asked about WAF - Allow uploads of only files with certain extensions and block all other file uploads and @Mohamed_Ahmed_Kansoh came through with the solution and screenshots of his home lab proving the solution
• @Andreia wanted to know about translating a postman request to an iRule and F5's @PeteWhite  stepped in to help
• @shihab asked about how to remove quotation marks and just 2 hours later @Leonardo_Accors had the answer for them
• @Aantat  kicked off an interesting conversation about the best way to Send Attackers IP to another system via API 
• @s0lselcia is looking for resources to help study for the 301a exam and @Philip_Jonsson , @Enes_Afsin_Al , and @JRahm all offered some suggestions

Unanswered questions:

• @421763 is looking for help preparing for taking the CCNA exam 
• @vaibhavkumar-savkare is trying to figure out why an API is Blocked Due to F5 Rule set in F5 rules for AWS WAF 
• @peddi  is looking for help with the File scan function in ASM 

Notable solutions:

@xuwen shared extract LTM VS ssl profile binding cert and key information to generate a json with python f5-sdk

 

Weekly stats (excluding F5 employees):

Most kudoed authors

• @Patrik_Jonsson 
•  @Juergen_Mang
• @Nikoolayy1 

 Gave the most kudos:

• @Nikoolayy1 
• @CA_Valli 
• @Mohamed_Ahmed_Kansoh 

Top kudoed posts:

• @Kevin_Davies' post my holiday project 
• @Juergen_Mang's reply to Decrypting BIG-IP Packet Captures Automatically