Agility sessions announced
Good news, everyone! This year's virtual Agilitywill have over 100 sessions for you to choose from, aligned to 3 pillars. There will be Breakouts (pre-recorded 25 minutes, unlimited audience) Discussion Forums (live content up to 45 minutes, interactive for up to 75 attendees) Quick Hits (pre-recorded 10 minutes, unlimited audience) So, what kind of content are we talking about? If you'd like to learn more about how to Simplify Delivery of Legacy Apps, you might be interested in Making Sense of Zero Trust: what’s required today and what we’ll need for the future (Discussion Forum) Are you ready for a service mesh? (breakout) BIG-IP APM + Microsoft Azure Active Directory for stronger cybersecurity defense (Quick Hits) If you'd like to learn more about how to Secure Digital Experiences, you might be interested in The State of Application Strategy 2022: A Sneak Peak (Discussion Forum) Security Stack Change at the Speed of Business (Breakout) Deploy App Protect based WAF Solution to AWS in minutes (Quick Hits) If you'd like to learn more about how to Enable Modern App Delivery at Scale, you might be interested in Proactively Understanding Your Application's Vulnerabilities (Discussion Forum Is That Project Ready for you? Open Source Maturity Models (Breakout) How to balance privacy and security handling DNS over HTTPS (Quick Hits) The DevCentral team will be hosting livestreams, and the DevCentral lounge where we can hang out, connect, and you can interact directly with session presenters and other technical SMEs. Please go to https://agility2022.f5agility.com/sessions.html to see the comprehensive list, and check back with us for more information as we get closer to the conference.F5 Agility 2021
UPDATE: Registration for F5 Agility 2021is now open. Register Here: Agility | F5 Each day starts with a keynote—highlighting key insights into the future of building, securing, and optimizing multi-cloud applications. After that, a curated selection of breakouts and demos will become available, enabling you to learn what you want, at your own pace. If a picture is worth one thousand words - then a 90 secondvideo bythe incomparablePeter Silvais worth millions! ---- Mark Your Calendars for Agility, April 20–22, 2021 Agility 2021 is a free digital event where you will get the latest news, ask the experts your technology questions, and network with like-minded individuals. We will update and resurfacethis article to announce Registration and other event-specific details. Details atAgility | F5 site - Sign Up to be notified when registration opens.F5 2021 Agility Live! - with Jason and John
Some more Details(Update 4/19) Agility starts tomorrow - it's not too late to register and find the sessions that most meet your needs. The opening Keynote starts at 8AM (re-air at 6PM) Pacific Ask The CTO panel starts at 12:noon Pacific And...of course Agility Live! with Jason and John at 3PM to recap the day. We are looking forward to a great week. ----- During F5 Agility 2021 (April 20-22) you can join Jason and John for any (or all) of the four scheduled Agility Live! sessions.Register for Agility 2021 here and add Agility Live! to your Agenda.Agility 2020 - you're invited!
In-person event for Agility 2020 has been cancelled. Please see the Agility Event Page for more details. (Update 2/28/2020) In an abundance of caution for our customers, partners and employees, we have made the tough decision to cancel our in-person event for Agility 2020 due to the escalating travel and safety concerns related to the global COVID-19 (Coronavirus) outbreak. While we are disappointed to miss sharing ideas and solving problems with customers and partners from around the globe in person, we believe this is the best decision for everyone's welfare. We are rapidly developing an alternative to Agility as a virtual experience in the near term to deliver valuable Lab, Break-out Session, Certification and Keynote content to our customers and partners. Check back regularly for more details on the virtual event or email F5Agility@F5.com for additional information. <Professor Farnsworth imitation>Good news, everybody!</Professor Farnsworth imitation> As you know, there was no Agility 2019. This was in part so that we could reset the time of year for the conference from August to March. Agility 2020will be held from March 16-19, 2020 at theSwan & Dolphinin Orlando, Florida. Orlando, and Disney, and putt-putt golfing... That's right, *puts on ears* we're going to Disneyworld - and you are all cordially invited to participate in labs and breakouts, meet fellow F5 users, talk with F5 and partner subject-matter experts, learn to develop and deploy applications in days instead of months, secure your apps at scale in a multi-cloud environment, and hear about our vision for the future of F5 and NGINX. Registration is now open! The DevCentral team will be busy as usual that week. We areallflying over, and will be: hosting our usual booth and giving out swag in the expo hall, hosting a walk-in Nerdery zone next to our booth, where folks can drop in to speak with one of our subject-matter experts, presenting breakout sessions, hanging out at Geekfest, connecting community, enjoying the exclusive community area at the final night party, and of course, spoiling the dev/central MVPs during the joint 2019-20 MVP Summit at Agility with special sessions and activities. If you'd like to do more than pick up all the knowledge being dropped, if you have some cool technical stories or lessons-learned to share, please stay tuned for the open call for proposals which should go live in early December - so please start getting those great breakout, lightening round, and open talk ideas ready. Hope to see you there!
Manage BIG-IPs in Azure using Terraform Cloud
Introduction In this article I’ll outline a suite of demonstration resources designed to help you and your IT team explore the possibilities of applying DevOps practices in your own environments. The demonstration resources described below show how tools likeGit, HashiCorpTerraform, HashiCorpSentinel, ChefInspecand F5'sAutomation Toolchaincan be used to introduce some of the practices listed above to F5 BIG-IPs and the IT services they help deliver. By following along with theREADMEin thedemonstration repositoryand the video walk-throughs listed below, you should be able to run this demonstration on your own. Software Delivery Key Practices IT Industry research, such asAccelerate, shows improving a company's ability to deliver software has a significant positive benefit to their overall success. The following practices and design principles are cornerstones to that improvement. Version control of code and configuration Automation of Deployment Automation of Testing and Test Data Management "Shifting Left" on Security Loosely Coupled Architectures Pro-active Notification Caveats These repositories use simplifying demonstration shortcuts for password, key, and network security. Production-ready enterprise designs and workflows should be used in place of these shortcuts. DO NOT ASSUME THAT THE CODE AND CONFIGURATION IN THESE REPOSITORIES IS PRODUCTION-READY The particular source control approach shown in this demonstration is one of many. Before using this approach to support your Infrastructure as Code and Configuration Management assets and workflows, you should learn aboutdifferent patterns of source code managementand determine what best fits your team's needs. A variety of tools are used in this demonstration. In most cases they are not exclusively required and can be replaced with other similar tools. The demonstration uses a licensed version of Terraform Cloud in order to demonstrate the capabilities of HashiCorp Sentinel. If you are using the free version of Terraform Cloud you won't be able to try the policy compliance use-cases, and the rest of the demonstration code should work as expected. Setting up your demonstration automation host Before running the demonstration code, you'll need to set up the IDE host and the Azure account. Instructions for those steps arehere Video walk-throughs Fork the repository and open it in Visual Studio Code (1m36s) Once the tools are installed, you can create your own copy of the repository and open it in your IDE. In the videos, Visual Studio Code is used as the IDE. In order to follow along, you'll need to create your own repository in order to set up the Terraform Cloud configuration and make your own adjustments to build configuration (e.g. the number of application servers deployed) Set up a Terraform Cloud workspace (1m38s) Before running the Terraform Cloud workflow, a Terraform Cloud workspace is required. This video steps you through manually configuring the workspace and linking it to your cloned repository. Programmatically set up Terraform Cloud workspaces for production, test, and development (10m40s) Setting up the workspaces programmatically has the benefits of rapid consistent results and executable knowledge in the form of scripts and configuration files. In this video we step you through programmatically building workspaces for production, test, and development environments usingthis repository. We also programmatically configure simple source-controlled compliance Sentinal policies. Initial build of production, test, and development (7m59s) Everything should be ready for the first build of your production, test, and development environments. In this video, we step you through manually triggering Terraform Cloud builds. In addition, we'll see the impact of Sentinel policies in use, how to override policies that have been triggered, and the audit trail that results. Automated testing of production (4m18s) Once your environment builds have completed, it's critical to validate that they are fit for use. In this video, we step you through a simple set of tests that validate the readiness of the F5 BIG-IPs built by the Terraform Cloud workflow. These tests are not comprehensive, but demonstrate the benefits of an executable "definition of done." The source of an updated version of the Inspec tests used in the demonstration ishere. Manual inspection of production (2m45s) In this video, we walk through the BIG-IPs that were built in the production environment. We inspect the virtual servers and their associated pools, noting the number of application servers that were built and joined to the pool. Programmatically add application servers and include them in the BIG-IP virtual server (8m6s) In this video, we explore the use-case of expanding the pool in the previously built production environment, using a simple change in source control. We'll see the Terraform Cloud workflow automatically trigger a new build based on a merge commit to your cloned repository. New application servers will be built and automatically added to the pool by F5'sService Discovery iApp. Update WAF from a source control repository(no video walk-through) We leave it as an exercise for the reader (or possibly an updated video) to look for the WAF deployed with the virtual server. The WAF is retrieved from source controlhere. In addition, you can experiment with changing the version of the WAF in theAS3 templatein the stanza shown below. Usable values for versions are 0.1.0, 0.1.1, 0.2.0, and 0.2.1. If you choose to do this, follow the same workflow shown in the previous video about scaling the number of application servers. "ASM_Policy": { "class": "WAF_Policy", "url": "https://github.com/mjmenger/waf-policy/raw/0.1.1/asm_policy.xml", "ignoreChanges": false } What's next? If you've followed along through the all of the use-cases in the demonstration repository, you have seen the following: Source-controlled build of an application environment, including BIG-IPs, virtual servers, pools, and WAF policies. Managed changes with logging of authoring and approvals. Automated scaling of application resources and BIG-IP configuration. Automated updates to BIG-IP WAF policies. If you want to realize the benefits of these practices for your IT service delivery, please reach out to your F5 account team.F5 Agility 2021 - News, Updates, and Details of Virtual Event
The F5 Agility Agenda is taking shape. New speaker, Gregory Crabb, Vice President and Chief Information Security Officer, U.S. Postal Service. Mr. Crabb is responsible for protecting the Postal Service — its employees, customers, critical infrastructure, and information systems — against present and future digital threats. He leads a team of information security professionals in defining and executing the Postal Service’s information security strategy and educating stakeholders and the public about its information security mission. And the always-engaging video promotions (thanks @Peter Silva ) are live on DevCentral YouTube. --- Agility 2021 starts in just under a month and details are coming online quickly. If you like granularity check out: The Calendar / Agenda -Agenda | F5 The Session Descriptions -Sessions (f5.com) or... Check Out Our Keynote Speakers In addition to François, Kara, Gus, and Haiyan we have a huge lineup of speakersAND... Brian Krebs (https://krebsonsecurity.com/), the world famous cybersecurity blogger, has been confirmed as an Agility keynote speaker! This keynote will not be recorded, only available on April 21st, so make sure to tell folks to register to see this live! Brian Krebs is an independent investigative reporter who writes about cybercrime at the award-winning Web site KrebsOnSecurity.com. Formerly with The Washington Post (1995 to 2009), Krebs is probably best known for breaking stories on high-profile data breaches, including those that hit Target, Home Depot, Michaels, and Ashley Madison. Review all confirmed speakers and panelists at F5 Agility 2021 - Speakers. Security Panel Discussion - April 21st Since security is on our mind, and also on April 21st, there will be a live panel discussion: The Role of Security in Digital Transformation.Hear from a live panel of industry experts—including F5 customers and partners, security analysts, and SecOps community leaders—as they dive into the effects a global pandemic has had on the rate of digital transformation and what that means as we move forward. Registration Details If you have already registered - Great! If not (or if you have friends who have not yet registered) - there is no time like the present. Register here: F5 Agility 2021Agility 2022 - Call For Proposals
Hi everyone, You're hearing it here first: Agility 2022 will be a virtual event held February 15-16, 2022. This announcement is an invitation to submit a proposal to present atAgility 2022! Types of presentations: Breakout Session (20-30 minute) – pre recorded Discussion Forum (45 minute interactive session) Quick Hits (10 minutes or less, ideally single solution message, demonstrations, etc.) – pre recorded Do you have unique first-hand technical insights and real-world best practices to share? Are you an innovative user of F5 technology?Submit your proposal abstract(s) via this form for an opportunity to share your expertise with other F5practitioners at Agility 2022. We are targeting solutions so please consider the pain point of the customer and how F5 resolves those concerns. You can have more than one presenter and we encourage you to consider include customer use cases where possible. We will also host content in various theater friendly time zones, if selected we will work with you to determine the best time record or host your session. Areas of focus: Simplify Delivery Application of Legacy Applications Enable Modern App Delivery at Scale Secure Digital Experiences We strongly recommend reading“Why Your Excellent Conference Talk Was Rejected” by Sarah Grayfor tips on getting your proposal added to the agenda.Potential presenters may submit more than one abstract, with one proposal per submission. Feel free to reach out to Leslie with any questions you may have!Virtual Agility 2020 Save-the-Date Announcement
Hi everyone Making the right choice isn't always easy, but we believe we did that when the decision was made to cancel our in-person conference. The health of our staff, customers, partners, and community is important to us, and we are doing our best to reflect that in our human-first approach to the ongoing COVID crisis. We have been hard at work converting and updating content, and hope you are able to attend the event in its new virtual format! We are splitting the online event as follows: May 12–14 Live keynotes On-demand demos and breakout sessions. June 9 & 10 Hands-on labs (limited registration in order to ensure the best user experience) There will be another announcement once the list of available labs and times has been posted, as well as once registration is open. Please visit https://www.f5.com/agility for more information.Agility 2020 registration now open!
As you may have seen in Peter Silva's teaser video, Agility 2020 is back! Registration is now open for the May 12-14 keynotes, demos, and breakout sessions. We will have information about registration for the June labs at a later date. Please visithttps://www.f5.com/agilityfor more information.
