F5 Distributed Cloud - Service Policies & Rate Limiting

Welcome

In this lab, attendees will take a deeper dive into F5 Service Policies and Rate Limiting to provide application security. Attendees will review Security Policy Frameworks, exercise configuration options, review security events and perform hands-on configurations. Attendees will also explore rate limiting deployment configurations.

Objective:

• Gain a deeper understanding of key F5 Distributed Cloud security functions and controls

• Gain an understanding Service Policies and Rate Limiting configurations

Lab & Tasks:

• All Lab requirements will be noted in the tasks that follow

• Estimated completion time: 3 Labs approximately 15-20 minutes each

Labs:

• Introduction: Accessing F5 Distributed Cloud Console
  • Task 1: Lab Environment
  • Task 2: F5 Distributed Cloud Console Login
• Lab 1: Deploying an Application with F5 Distributed Cloud
  • Task 1: Configure Load Balancer and Origin Pool
  • Task 3: Testing the Application
• Lab 2: Enabling Application Security with Service Policies
  • Task 1: Creating Local Namespace Service Policies
  • Task 2: Attaching Service Policies and configuring IP Reputation
  • Task 3: Create, assign and test a Custom Service Policy
  • Task 4: Security Observability
  • Task 5: OPTIONAL - Service Policy Ordering
• Lab 3: Exploring Rate Limiting & Routes
  • Task 1: Establishing a Baseline
  • Task 2: Creating a Rate Limiting Policy
  • Task 3: Testing Rate Limiting
  • Task 4: Observing Route Configurations
• Conclusion
• Appendix