F5 Application Delivery Controller Solutions

Welcome

Welcome to the F5 Application Delivery Controller Solutions lab at F5 Agility 2026

The content contained here leverages a full DevOps CI/CD pipeline and is sourced from the GitHub repository at https://github.com/f5devcentral/f5-agility-labs-adc. Bugs and Requests for enhancements can be made by opening an Issue within the repository.

Contents:

• Introduction to ADC Deployments with BIG-IP LTM
  • Lab Network Setup
    • Lab Diagram
    • Timing for Labs
  • BIG-IP LTM HA Configuration -
    • Lab 1: Configure Virtual Servers and Pools
    • Lab 2: Work with SNAT, Profiles, and Monitors
    • Lab 3: Use SSL Offload, Best Practices, and iApps
    • Lab 4: Configure High-Availability
• AI Data Delivery: Secure and Reliable Object Storage
  • Welcome
  • Objectives:
  • Lab & Tasks:
    • Introduction: Accessing F5 S3 BIG-IP Lab Environment
    • Lab 1: High Availability & Efficient Load Distribution
    • Lab 2: Fine-grained Policy Enforcement & Bucket Migration
    • Lab 3: Cluster Health Monitoring with Read/Write Quorum
    • Conclusion
• Intro to F5OS : Migrating from iSeries
  • Welcome
    • Lab Information
  • Exercise 1: Initial Setup
    • Student A Section
    • Student B Section
  • Exercise 2: Tenant Creation and Migration
  • Exercise 3: Operations of F5OS and Tenants
    • System Health
    • Networking and Traffic on the Data Plane
    • System Software
    • Logs and Support Information
• AI Runtime: Building Secure and Optimized AI Apps with F5 Guardrails & Red Teams
  • Welcome
  • Objectives:
  • Lab & Tasks:
    • Introduction: Building Secure and Optimized AI Apps with F5 Guardrails & Red Teams
    • Lab 1 - Prompt and Response Scanning
    • Lab 2 – Creating custom scanners
    • Lab 3 - Red Team – Campaign Exploration
    • Lab 4 - Red Team – Agentic Warfare Exploration
    • Conclusion
• AI Data Delivery: Secure and Reliable Object Storage
  • Welcome
  • Objectives:
  • Lab & Tasks:
    • Introduction: Accessing F5 S3 BIG-IP Lab Environment
    • Lab 1: High Availability & Efficient Load Distribution
    • Lab 2: Fine-grained Policy Enforcement & Bucket Migration
    • Lab 3: Cluster Health Monitoring with Read/Write Quorum
    • Conclusion
• Post-quantum Crypto (PQC) and F5
  • Welcome
  • Objectives:
  • Lab & Tasks:
    • Introduction: Accessing the Post-quantum Crypto (PQC) and F5 Lab
    • Lab 1: Windows-client
    • Lab 2: BIG-IP Setup
    • Lab 3: NGINX Setup
    • Conclusion
• Building the F5 Fabric
  • DSC Lab Network Setup
    • Login info for lab jump box
  • Module 1: BIG-IP Device Service Cluster Configuration
    • Lab 1: Active/Active ScaleN Clustering Exercise
    • Lab 2: Sync Only exercise
    • Lab 3: Device Service Cluster Automation
    • Final Notes
• BIG-IP® Local Traffic Manager (LTM) - Getting Started
  • Lab Overview
  • Scenario
    • Lab 1: Access the Lab Environment
    • Lab 2: The Basics (Networking, Pools and Virtual Servers)
    • Lab 3: Load Balancing, Monitoring and Persistence
    • Lab 4: Accelerating Applications Lab
    • Lab 5: SSL Offload and Security
    • Lab 6: BIG-IP Policies and iRules
    • Lab 7: Support and Troubleshooting
    • Lab 8: Device Service Clusters (DSC)
    • Bonus Lab – Traffic groups, iApps and Active-Active
• Troubleshoot with tcpdump and Wireshark
  • tcpdump Switches
  • tcpdump Filters
  • F5 Specific tcpdump Switches
  • Configure the F5 Wireshark Plugin
    • Wireshark version 3.6.3 is installed on the jumpbox.
    • If you have a version before 3.0 of wireshark you will need to download and install the F5 Wireshark plugin.
  • Taking a Capture from the F5
  • Configuring/Using Wireshark F5 Plugin
  • Follow F5 Conversation
  • F5 Low Details
  • F5 Medium Details
  • F5 High Details
  • High Details and Other Field Dissectors
  • Decrypt with tcpdump --f5 ssl
    • Automate Pre Master Secret File Creation
  • Decrypting SSL in Wireshark
  • Appendix
    • Decrypt SSL with iRule
    • Decrypt traffic using Client
• Resilient Data Center Architectures with F5 BIG-IP
  • Getting Started
    • Lab Topology
    • BIG-IP CLI Primer
  • Module 1 – Resilient Data Center Architectures
    • Lab 1: West Data Center Configuration
    • Lab 2: East Data Center Configuration
    • Lab 3: Troubleshooting
• BIG-IP HA - do it the proper way
  • BIG-IP HA - do it the proper way
    • Architecture
    • Network setup
    • Layer 2 link failure detection
    • HA Basics
    • MAC masquerade
    • High availability (HA) Groups
    • GW pool
    • Connection mirroring
    • Persistance mirroring
• F5 AppWorld Lab - TMOS Architecture
  • Contents:
    • Lab Network Setup
    • Lab 1: The Basics (Networking, Pools and Virtual Servers)
    • Lab 2: Load Balancing, Monitoring and Persistence
    • Lab 3: SSL Offload and Security
    • Lab 4: BIG-IP Policies and iRules
    • Lab 5: Device Service Clusters (DSC)
    • Bonus Lab 6: Support and Troubleshooting
• TMOS - Performance Tuning
  • Getting Started
  • Lab Components
  • Lab Topology Diagram
  • Lab Credentials
  • Timing for Labs
  • Lab Presentation
    • Intro: Working With The Lab
    • Lab 1: Viewing Application Data
    • Lab 2: Working With TCP Profiles
    • Lab 3: Layer 7 LB for HTTP and UDP
• BIG-IP Security Essentials
  • Audience
  • Learning Objectives
  • Getting Started
    • Overview
    • Roadmap
    • iHealth Integration and Validation
  • Security Onion Modules
    • Outer Layer – Boundary and Access Isolation
    • Middle Layer – Authentication and Protocol Hardening
    • Core Layer – Privilege, Survivability, and System Integrity
  • Operational Resources
    • Operational Security Checklist
    • References and Source Material