In the current AI market, the demand for scalable and secure deployments is increasing. Public cloud providers (AWS, Google, and Microsoft) are competing to provide GenAI infrastructure, driving the need for multi-cloud and hybrid cloud deployments. However, distributed deployments come with challenges, including: Complexity in managing multi-cloud environments. Lack of unified visibility across clouds. Inconsistent security and policy enforcement. F5 Distributed Cloud provides a solution by offering a seamless, secure, and portable environment for GenAI workloads across clouds. This lab will guide you through setting up and securing GenAI applications with F5 Distributed Cloud on AWS EKS and GCP GKE.

Several of the fundamental principles of F5 Distributed Cloud (XC) are highlighted in this lab environment. You will be simulating a customer during the lab who needs to verify the safety of an application. The objective is to verify the applications safety of on-premises or application on cloud before and after enabling F5 Distributed Cloud Console WAAP Capabilities by sending attacks to the application.

Explore NGINX One, an all-in-one platform that integrates the best of NGINX's offerings into a unified package that includes a cloud-based dashboard and access to F5 Distributed Cloud. Customers get advanced load balancing, web and application server capabilities, API gateway functionalities, and security features. The goal of NGINX One is to provide unparalleled performance, security, and scalability for modern applications, whether they are deployed in the cloud, on-premises, or in hybrid environments.

In today's cloud-centric, BYOD-driven and distributed microservices landscape, traditional security measures such as VPNs and perimeter defenses struggle to keep pace with the increasing need for enterprise security. Implicitly trusting entities within a network poses significant risks, necessitating a paradigm shift. Enter Zero Trust—an approach that requires independent security for every enterprise asset and authenticates and authorizes user and process identities at every level. This lab explores the critical role of OAuth in enabling a Zero Trust architecture and allows lab users to implement & test the OAuth Solution.