DevCentral Community Lab - A&O Toolchain 212: Application Deployments with BIG-IP and AS3
DevCentral is hosting a lab for the Community! Lab Details We will be going through "A&O Toolchain 212: Application Deployments with BIG-IP and AS3" This topic was chosen by the members of the DevCentral Connects Group. How To Sign Up To sign up, simply mark yourself as attending this event and the email address from your profile will be used for the training platform. If you would like to use an alternative email address, just DM me with the email you'd like to use. Important Dates / Time December 13, 2022 9:30am - 10:30am Pacific - DevCentral Connects hosts will be on a live stream and walk through the start of the lab and get everyone logged in. For the following 3 days, the lab environment will remain open so you have plenty of time to start and complete the lab! How to get help throughout the lab For questions, you will be able to interact with the lab team online via a thread Community.f5.com (will be posted here). The lab team may also jump on live streams, as needed, to address questions as well.Microservices March Lab 1 on DevCentral Connects
DevCentral is piling on with NGINX's month of learning, Microservices March! Week 1 is Architecting Kubernetes Clusters for High-Traffic Websites. The lab will consist of configuring the NGINX Ingress Controller. Buu and Jason will be doing the lab live on air. Feel free to join us live on Youtube and then here for the after-show where we'll finish the lab and go through any questions.Microservices March Lab 2 on DevCentral Connects
DevCentral is piling on with NGINX's month of learning, Microservices March! Week 2 is Exposing APIs in Kubernetes. The lab will use the NGINX Ingress Controller to implement rate limiting and prevent your app from getting overwhelmed by too many requests. Buu and Jason will be doing the lab live on air. Feel free to join us live on Youtube and then here for the after-show where we'll finish the lab and go through any questions.Special Global Live Webinar (01/16): AI Under Attack: F5 AI Gateway Solves Security Challenges
Al Under Attack: F5 Al Gateway Solves Unique Security Challenges This webinar event is open to all regardless of geographic location. Date: Thursday, January 16, 2025 Time: 10:00am PT | 1:00pm ET Speakers: Lori MacVittie, F5 Distinguished Engineer & Chief Evangelist, F5 | Aubrey King, Community Evangelist, F5 What's the webinar about? Elevate your AI game! Join our upcoming webinar to dive deep into AI security challenges and discover how the F5 AI Gateway offers unmatched protection, acceleration, and observation for your AI applications. Learn about innovative security measures, best deployment practices, and the importance of monitoring AI traffic. Don't miss out on equipping yourself with the essential tools to secure and optimize your AI models. Key Takeaways: AI Security Challenges: Understand why traditional API security won't cut it for AI. Comprehensive Solutions: Protect your AI models from prompt injection, model manipulation, and more. Performance Acceleration: Optimize AI application performance while ensuring compliance. Seamless Integration: Discover how F5 AI Gateway supports hybrid and multicloud environments. Register Today Note. If you can't make the live webinar on 01.16.25, still register and will send you the link to the on-demand recordingBoston F5 User Group
DATE AND TIME: Wednesday, January 18, 2023 | 10:30 AM - 2:30 PM EST LOCATION: Microsoft Tech Office – 5 Wayside Rd, Burlington, MA 01803 ROOM NAME AND NUMBER: Adams 1020, Washington 1021, Jefferson 1022 We are delighted to invite you to our user group as we host an informative session about F5's vision and our diverse solutions portfolio at our alliance partner Microsoft Tech Office located on January 18th! Enjoy lunch on us, SWAG, and a chance to win a prize in our raffle! Volunteering to speak at our next event (virtual attendance allowed), will get you an entry to potentially win! See below for more details about our information packed session: 10:00am – 10:15am - Coffee and Connecting – Take a few minutes to meet the F5 team and other F5 users 10:15am – 10:30am – Introduction and the greater F5 Vision 10:30am – 11:45am – F5s new hardware (Velos\rSeries) and your migration options to get you there - Tony Marfil 11:45am – 12:30pm - Lunch 12:30pm – 1:15pm Intro to F5 Distributed Cloud (F5XC) - Steve Iannetta and Michael Sullivan 1:15pm – 1:30pm Break 1:30pm – 2:15pm Security Services within F5 Distributed Cloud (F5XC) and challenges we are solving - Steve Iannetta and Michael Sullivan 2:15pm - 2:45pm Automating BIG-IP Lab 2:45pm - 3:30pm Customer Challenges, Questions, Open Collaboration on how customers use F5 3:00pm - 3:15pm Wrap Register hereNAMER F5 Test Drive Lab: F5 NGINX Fundamentals: Introduction to NGINX Plus (Session 1 of 3)
This virtual session is open only to users located in North America. Space is limited. Please contact your F5 account team for registration information. During the Introduction to F5 NGINX Plus Test Drive Lab session, attendees are introduced to the core F5 NGINX Plus capabilities and operations. During this hands-on lab, best practices on where to utilize F5 BIG-IP and F5 NGINX Plus in an environment will be discussed, along with how both platforms complement one another. We will also dive into and provide basic hands-on configuration concepts. Prerequisite: None Digital Badge Information: This session is a part of the F5 NGINX Fundamentals Accreditation Track. To earn the F5 NGINX Fundamentals Digital Badge via Credly, attendees must complete all three related lab sessions: Introduction to F5 NGINX Plus, NGINX App Protect (WAF), and NGINX Ingress Controller Deployment & Observability. This session is now at capacity. Please join the waitlist. F5 will be in contact if additional lab seats become available.NAMER F5 Test Drive Lab: F5 NGINX Fundamentals: Deployment and Observability (Session 2 of 3)
This virtual session is open only to users located in North America. Space is limited. Please contact your F5 account team for registration information. During this F5 Test Drive Lab session, attendees will experience core F5 NGINX Ingress Controller (based on F5 NGINX Plus) capabilities and operations. This hands-on lab will provide basic and advanced configuration examples, with each attendee running their Kubernetes cluster and ingress controllers with sample applications. Watch the real-time dashboard, Prometheus, and Grafana, as you scale up and down, generate load tests, monitor logs, and use Advanced F5 NGINX features to find, fix and tune network, application, and configuration issues. Instructors and Lab Assistants will be available to answer questions and help with lab exercises. By the end of the workshop, you will have the necessary skills and experience to run F5 NGINX Ingress Controller in a production environment. Prerequisite: Introduction to F5 NGINX Plus (March 14th) Digital Badge Information: This session is a part of the F5 NGINX Fundamentals Accreditation Track. To earn the F5 NGINX Fundamentals Digital Badge via Credly, attendees must complete all three related lab sessions: Introduction to F5 NGINX Plus, NGINX App Protect (WAF), and NGINX Ingress Controller Deployment & Observability. This session is now at capacity. Please join the waitlist. F5 will be in contact if additional lab seats become available.Lab: Scale Production-Grade Kubernetes with F5 NGINX Ingress Controller and Red Hat OpenShift, Dec 1
December 1, 2022 Scale Production-Grade Kubernetes with F5 NGINX Ingress Controller and Red Hat OpenShift 10:00 AM-12:00 PM PT This hands-on lab session will introduce users to the foundational aspects of F5 NGINX running on the Red Hat OpenShift platform. Users will gain familiarity with F5 NGINX and its value as a per-application ADC within an OpenShift environment and understand the differences between open-source NGINX and F5 NGINX. We will also explore how F5 NGINX with Red Hat OpenShift can provide a production-grade deployment. In addition, users will have hands-on experience in the following: Understand the F5 NGINX Kubernetes Ingress Controller operator How to utilize the OpenShift default ingress and F5 NGINX KIC ingress together How to provide per-app monitoring and load balancing in a cluster environment Advanced app-centric configuration: use role-based access control (RBAC) and self-service to set up security guardrails (not gates) Visibility and performance monitoring: pinpoint undesirable behaviors and performance bottlenecks to simplify troubleshooting and improve time to fix Individuals who attend and complete this lab session will earn the corresponding F5 Digital Certificate of Completion Badge. Register here
