DevCentral Community Highlights, Week 7 '23

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Tip of the week:

There's still space to register for Wednesday's GLOBAL live webinar: Easily View, Manage, and Scale Your App Security with F5 NGINX

If you're in the Montreal area on Thursday, be sure to check out the Montreal F5 User Group meeting on the 16th and say hi to my old teammate @Antonio_Marfil!

Content you may have missed:

ARTICLES

DevCentral's Featured Member for February - Edouard Zorrilla by @PSilva
Using F5 Distributed Cloud AppStack & CE Site Survivability by @Dave_Potter
In search of a security incident response system for the masses, Part 2: A Minimal Deployment by @Valentin_Tobi
NGINX Management Suite API Connectivity Manager - Modern API driven Applications by @momahdy
F5 SIRT This Week In Security - Jan 30-Feb 3 - Quarterly Security Notification and Crypto Hacks by @Jordan_Zebor
Easily Protect Your Applications from DDoS with F5 Distributed Cloud DDoS Auto-Mitigation by @Ted_Byerly
Mitigation of OWASP API6: 2019 Mass Assignment vulnerability using F5 Distributed Cloud Platform by @Shubham_Mishra

VIDEOS

Forum post highlights:

@Amine_Kadimi and @RadekR gave great advice to use iHealth to check for all known vulnerabilities with your specific version of BIG-IP
@Kai_Wilke and @Paulius advised on how to remove weak ciphers in TLS 1.2 and 1.3 in prod
@Mayur_Sutare gave advice on how to disable weaker ciphers in TLS 1.2
@Mohamed_Salah_ gave thoughtful responses about understanding Connection Limit and Connection Rate Limit
@Ichnafi helped a fellow user out with their SSL profile client

New Accepted Solutions

@asmith984 figured out their own issue with SAML IdP Initiated SSO Denied and Killing Existing Session established through OAuth @dani_salvado

@dani_salvado solved their own issue with an error while using the REST proxy on BIG-IQ

laid out some factors that go into How to suppress the logon page for authenticated users for a period of time in APM
gave direction to a user trying to create an access portal with redirect URL

@Enes_Afsin_Al showed how to figure out the actual timeframe for the LTM Virtual statistics records

told us about the risk of problems if there is no firewall
pointed out a fix to Big-IP virtual edition not loading configuration
Pointed a user to an article about writing an iRule for HTTP compression profile
isolating Application Releases within BIG-IP
iRule Shenanigans fix

@Nikoolayy1 helped someone with how to get AFM to log firewall rules

@Mohamed_Salah_ helped a user with checking the host header

@malcooooIm helped @AboAmir with a question about BIG-IP 5200 traffic flow

@Sebastiansierra:

@xuwen gave a helping hand with behavior of SSL::disable serverside

Notable solutions:

@Mohamed_Ahmed_Kansoh wrote up Stable point of Configuration "Rescue Point"
@SiCoffey shared GSLB Split DNS by iRule

Unanswered questions:

@Michaelyang would like to understand behaviour with two devices in HA status
@Ichnafi needs help building an ansible playbook to modify vCMP-Guest
@Hooni_L is having an issue with XC - Obelix table syncer list operation failed
@ChrisThuys is having an difficulty with securing an API with a JSON OPENAPI file

Weekly community stats (excluding F5 employees):

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Top kudoed posts:

@Kai_Wilke's reply to Making SNMP queries in iRules
@Sebastiansierra 's reply to Modern APM Message Box
@dani_salvado 's follow-up to their Use the REST proxy on the BIG-IQ system ERROR post

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Comments

Whew! Long one this week. Last week we added a few stats for F5ers, and this week is the first time I've tried highlighting all the new Accepted Solutions for the week. Is this helpful to you? Let me know!