Learn how to deploy, secure, and manage applications wherever they are needed: in a data center, in a public or private cloud, on-premises or at the network or enterprise edge using F5 Distributed Cloud Services (F5XC, previously Volterra).

Explore the full range of F5XC capabilities for distributed application management, including continuous delivery and verification, as well as load balancing.

Practice navigating the F5XC portal. Build an F5XC gateway in AWS. Expose, discover, access, and secure an application on the internet. Reroute traffic and view request data in event logs. Demonstrate the relationship between tenant and namespace objects. Practice basic kubectl commands and see how F5XC uses Kubernetes functionality.

This course is intended for DevOps, SecOps, NetOps, and Application Developers. Little to no knowledge of F5 Distributed Cloud services is needed to attend.

There are no prerequisites before attending this course, but the following knowledge is helpful:

• Experience with any cloud provider
• Basic networking skills including a basic understanding of routing, firewalls (application and network layer), proxies and load balancers
• Basic understanding of Kubernetes, pods, and containerization concepts

Chapter 1: Introduction

• Resources
• Benefits of F5XC
• How F5XC works
• Primary F5XC Deployment Types

Chapter 2: (labs) Intro to Training Environment and F5XC Console

Accessing Training Environment

Intro to Console

Creating Namespace

Building Site Infrastructure

Configuring Cloud Credentials

Creating Cloud Site

Chapter 3: Site and Infrastructure Management

Tenants and Namespaces

Labels and Key Pairs

Virtual Sites

Load Balancing and Origin Pools

Architecture of Infrastructure Objects

Examples of Objects used in Production

Chapter 4: (labs) Using F5XC Objects to prepare AWS Application

Creating and Sending Alerts

Viewing Site Status

Creating Origin Pool for TCP Load Balancer

Creating Delegated DNS Domain

Creating TCP Load Balancer

Chapter 5: How F5XC Uses Kubernetes

Kubernetes (K8s) Overview

The Need for Kubernetes

Containers, Pods, Nodes, Services, Clusters

Virtual K8s

Chapter 6: (labs) Creating vK8s and Alerts on F5XC Gateway

Use F5 Simulator to Deliver Modern App at the Edge

Creating vK8s on F5XC Gateway

Exploring Basic Kubernetes Commands

Chapter 7: Introduction to Distributed Cloud Mesh

Services vs Service Mesh

Components of Service Mesh

Service Mesh and Sidecar Proxies

F5XC Cloud Mesh

Mesh vs App Stack

App Stack and Mesh Working Together

Chapter 8: (labs) Expose, Access, Protect, Reroute, and Troubleshoot AWS site

Creating Origin Pool and Health Check for HTTP(s) Load Balancer

Creating HTTP Load Balancer and View Application

Activating WAF

Creating Routing Configuration

Deploying Virtual K8s Workload for Application

Automation with Terraform

Viewing Data in Dashboards

Challenge Lab: Deploy and Troubleshoot Replica site

Challenge Lab: Access AWS Instance via SSH

Course Review