In this lab we will explore F5 AI Guardrails which is a runtime security platform for generative AI and agentic AI systems, focused on securing the AI inference layer—the point where models receive prompts and generate outputs.

This lab will guide and educate you on what the F5 BIG-IP Next Cloud-Native Network Functions are, how they are deployed with NVIDIA DOCA, and how they will ultimately help show the gains in offloading traffic to DPUs instead of tying up resources for your applications on the CPU of the physical K8 host.

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.

Welcome to the World Wide Technology / F5 Virtual Environment (vLab) setup and hands-on F5 201 Exam Lab exercises. The purpose of this guide is to provide a sampling of hands-on exercises to better understand the subjects outlined in the 201-TMOS Administration Exam. F5 certification exams are designed to required hands-on experience to pass the test and these exercises will help you deal with exam questions requiring you to interpret configuration and other outputs from the BIG-IP.

This lab focuses on using Ansible to efficiently manage F5 BigIP configurations. It covers setting up the development environment, working with Ansible inventory, creating playbooks for automating tasks on F5 BigIP devices, deploying configuration changes, and a bonus challenge of setting up an Active/Standby configuration and performing configuration synchronization. The lab aims to provide participants with hands-on experience in automating F5 BigIP configuration management using Ansible.

This lab will guide and educate you on what the F5 BIG-IP Next for Kubernetes is, how it is deployed with NVIDIA DOCA, and how it will ultimately help show the gains in offloading traffic to DPUs instead of tying up resources for your applications on the CPU of the physical K8 host.

This lab discusses the collaboration between F5 technologies and Citrix VDI to enhance security and performance in virtual desktop infrastructure. F5's security-first approach and performance optimization strengthen Citrix VDI environments, meeting the needs of remote workforces and setting new standards for secure and high-performance virtualized experiences. The hardware and software used in the lab include 5 Windows Servers (v2016) and 1 F5 BIG-IP APM (v17.1.0.1).

In this lab we will be addressing a specific set of BIG-IP (versatility) characteristics: authentication and orchestration. In doing so, we will also be showing you some powerful capabilities of BIG-IP APM and SSL Orchestrator.

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.

Systems are at higher risk without a concerted, repeatable application security configuration process. In this lab, you will learn how to build a declarative AWAF policy and achieve OWASP Top Ten (2021) compliance with the BIG-IP OWASP Compliance Dashboard. A complete CI/CD pipeline is used to deploy our AWAF policy to the BIG-IP system using Application Services 3 Extension (AS3) and Ansible.

Welcome to WWT's F5 Terraform Automation Lab. The intended goal of this lab is to introduce and enable F5 administrators to utilize Terraform to automate, simplify and streamline the deployment of F5 services.

Welcome to the F5 Distributed Cloud (XC) with Customer Edge Deployment mode This lab, presented by WWT and powered by F5 vesctl command line tool, will guide you through aspects of managing configuration within GCP, Kubernetes using F5 Distributed Cloud (XC) in Customer Edge deployment mode. This hands-on experience guides you through deploying a multi-cloud application across GCP, which is accessible via Private IP through an F5 By harnessing the capabilities of the F5 HTTPS Load Balancer, routing traffic within GCP environments privately.