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Deploy an Auto-Scaled BIG-IP VE WAF in AWS

Today let’s look at how to create and deploy an auto-scaled BIG-IP Virtual Edition Web Application Firewall by using a Cloud Formation Template (CFT) in AWS. CFTs are simply a quick way to spin up so...
Published Aug 29, 2017
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Sep 01, 2017

This is really cool!

 

We have a product that connects to F5 devices and monitors them, and one of the requests we've received is integrating with these type of scripts. Basically, our product is installed in the customer environment (AWS or on-premises) and has an API. The user wants to auto-add the F5 instances that are spun up by CloudFormation to the instance of our system they have deployed. They also want the reverse - when an instance of an F5 device is removed from AWS, it would be removed from our system.

 

How would you best build this integration into the scripts you have laid out here?