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This course introduces network administrators, operators, and DevOps engineers to the foundational and F5-specific technologies required to automate BIG-IP. Participants will gain exposure to multiple technologies for a variety of use cases and will have hands-on experience that leave them better prepared to automate the onboarding and configuration of BIG-IP.

Course Topics

Review the Linux Command Line
Review BIG-IP Application Creation
Discuss Automation and DevOps Concepts
Configuring BIG-IP with iControl REST
Automating BIG-IP configuration with Application Services Extension 3 (AS3)
Automating BIG-IP onboarding with Declarative Onboarding (DO)

Audience

This course is intended for network administrators and operators and DevOps engineers interested in automating tasks on BIG-IP systems in their public and private Clouds as well as in their datacenter infrastructure.

Students should be familiar with and be able to configure basic BIG-IP elements such as:

Virtual Servers
Pools, Pool Members and Nodes
Pool Monitors
Basic Virtual Server Profiles

Students should also be familiar with the basics of the Linux command line. In addition, the following general technical knowledge should be well understood:

Layer 2 Ethernet and ARP networking concepts
Layer 3 and 4 TCP/IP networking concepts, including IP addressing and subnetting
Layer 7 HTTP networking concepts
Linux command line and basic Linux commands
HTML

Finally, nice-to-have knowledge includes familiarity with programming and/or scripting languages, such as:

JavaScript or NodeJS
Python
Bash

Course Objectives

Review Automation and DevOps concepts
Describe the components of iControl REST calls and how they interact with BIG-IP
Stand up and configure BIG-IP applications using iControl REST
Describe the installation and use of AS3 and DO iApp LX components
Automate the onboarding and configuration of BIG-IP
Add advanced tools like Postman and Newman to your toolkit

Chapter 1: Linux Command Line Review

Navigating the Linux File System
Creating and Deleting Files and Directories
Copying and Moving Files
Command Line Auto-Completion and Editing
Tools for Analyzing Test Results and Inspecting Log Files

Chapter 2: BIG-IP Application Creation Review

Understanding Load Balancing Basics
Configuring Virtual Servers, Pools, Pool Members and Nodes
Configuring Health Monitors and SSL Profiles
Understanding the Full Proxy Architecture and Source Address Translation

Chapter 3: Automation and DevOps Concepts

Understanding Infrastructure as Code, NetOps and DevOps
Differentiating Automation and Orchestration Concepts
Diving into DevOps Concepts such as Idempotency, Atomicity and Imperative vs Declarative

Chapter 4: Programming BIG-IP with iControl REST

Introducing Basic JavaScript Types
Introducing JavaScript Object Notation
Discovering an existing BIG-IP Configuration using iControl REST
Deploying Apps on BIG-IP using iControl REST
Onboarding BIG-IP using iControl REST
Working with JSON Programmatically

Chapter 5: Automating BIG-IP with AS3

Introducing BIG-IP Applications Services Extension 3
Creating BIG-IP Applications using AS3 with Curl
Introducing Postman and Postman Tests
Creating BIG-IP Applications using AS3 with Postman
Using Newman and the Linux CLI to Create BIG-IP Applications with AS3

Chapter 6: Onboarding BIG-IP with DO

Introducing Declarative Onboarding for BIG-IP
Remotely Installing the Declarative Onboarding iApp LX
Onboarding BIG-IP Declaratively

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