Community Highlights, Week 52 '22 + bonus year-end content
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 Guoqiang_Wu Guoqiang_Wu
- How to automate licenses management on F5 BIG-IP via BIG-IQ License Manager ( Part-2 ) by Guoqiang_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:
Top kudoed posts:
- reply to API Security Strategy - Discover and map APIs, block unwanted connection and prevent data leakage by Juergen_Mang
- reply to https://community.f5.com/t5/technical-forum/vip-with-url-domain-changeable/m-p/306959#M264617 by mihaic
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
- Daniel_Wolf
- Nikoolayy1
- Dario_Garrido
- Kai_Wilke
- Patrik_Jonsson
- Enes_Afsin_Al
- boneyard
- AaronJB
- Kevin_Stewart
- Lidev
Most prolific kudos-givers in 2022
- Nikoolayy1
- JoshBecigneul
- Rajiv_Goel
- Daniel_Wolf
- boneyard
- AlexBCT
- Mayur_Sutare
- Rodolfo_Nützmann
- neeeewbie
- Mohamed_Ahmed_Kansoh
Top kudoed posts in 2022
- A Day in the Life of a Security Engineer from Tel Aviv by Lior_Rotkovitch
- BIG-IP Scale-out/Multi-tier構成のポイント解説 by Madoka_KANEKO
- Deploying WAF in production using Azure Resource Manager template with F5 Nginx App Protect by Shajiya_Shaik
- OpenSSL CVE-2022-3786 and CVE-2022-3602 or "The Critical that wasn't" by AaronJB
- The Power of IP Intelligence (IPI) by Dharminder
- I made a coaster by Patrik_Jonsson
- Use F5 Distributed Cloud to service chain WAAP and CDN by Dave_Potter
- BIG-IP L2 vWire LACP Passthrough Deployment with IXIA Bypass Switch and NPB (Tool Sharing Enabled) by Veeraraghavan_A
- WorldTech IT - Who Ya Gonna Call? Scary Hack Story by Austin_Geraci
- How to Split DNS with Managed Namespace on F5 Distributed Cloud (XC) Part 1 – DNS over HTTPS by MichaelatF5
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!
Published Dec 28, 2022
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