F5 Appworld Labs Getting Started Doc

Welcome to the F5 Distributed Cloud for F5 Appworld 2025

Attention

The Appworld team is using this repo to document our “read-the-docs” process.

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-xc. Bugs and Requests for enhancements can be made by opening an Issue within the repository.

Note

Each Appworld lab is typically broken down by “Class” –> “Module” –> “Lab”. Each section uses “toctree” to create the index and reference the content. Using this template should give the contributor several getting-started RST examples.

Contents:

• F5 Distributed Cloud: Foundations of Delivery & Security
  • Welcome
  • Objectives:
  • Lab & Tasks:
    • Introduction: Accessing F5 Distributed Cloud Console
    • Lab 1: Deploying F5 Distributed Cloud Proxy Services to Securely Deliver a Public Endpoint
    • Lab 2: Deploying F5 Distributed Cloud Proxy Services to Securely Deliver a Private Endpoint via Regional Edges
    • Lab 3: Protecting a Private Endpoint
    • Conclusion
    • Appendix
• F5 Distributed Cloud: Web Application Security & Scanning
  • Welcome
    • Introduction to the Lab
    • Lab 1: Deploying and Managing F5 Distributed Cloud Web Application Firewall Configuration
    • Lab 2: Reviewing Signature-based Bot Strategies and enabling F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense
    • Lab 3: Malicious Users
    • Lab 4: Web App Scanning
    • Lab 5: AI Assistant and Security Operations
    • Conclusion
    • Appendix
• F5 Distributed Cloud: Security Automation & Zero Day Mitigation
  • Welcome
    • Introduction: Accessing F5 Distributed Cloud Console
    • Lab 1: Building a Service Policy for Negative Enforcement
    • Lab 2: Enabling Positive Application Security with Service Policies
    • Lab 3: Zero Day Exploit Response with Rate Limiting and Custom Service Policies
    • Conclusion
    • Appendix
• F5 Distributed Cloud: Discovering & Securing API’s
  • Welcome
  • Objective:
  • Lab & Tasks:
    • Introduction: Accessing F5 Distributed Cloud Console
    • Lab 1: Load Balancer and Origin
    • Lab 2: API Inventory
    • Lab 3: API Protection
    • Lab 4: Web Application Firewall (WAF)
    • Lab 5: Rate Limiting
    • Lab 6: Security Analytics and Malicious User Detection
    • Conclusion
    • Appendix
• F5 Distributed Cloud: Advanced Threat & Fraud Security
  • Welcome
  • Objective:
  • Lab & Tasks:
    • Introduction: Accessing F5 Distributed Cloud Console
    • Lab 1: Explore Load Balancer and Review Traffic Dashboards
    • Lab 2: Adding a Bot Protection Profile and Testing
    • Lab 3: Human-Simulated Stuffing Attack
    • Lab 4: Defend Against an Ongoing Attack
    • Conclusion
    • Appendix
• F5 Distributed Cloud: Multi-Cloud Networking & Beyond
  • Introduction: Accessing Lab Resources
    • Task 1: Lab Environment
    • Task 2: F5 Distributed Cloud Console Login
  • Introduction to the Lab
    • Lab Environment
  • Module 1: Network Connect
    • Lab 1: Building an XC Node (CE)
    • Lab 2: Configuring Network Connect (L3/L4 Routing Firewall )
  • Module 2: App Connect
    • Lab 3: Globally Available Front End
    • Lab 4: App Connect - Solving IP Overlap
    • Lab 5: Bonus Lab - L7 App Routing & Security
• F5 Distributed Cloud: Container as a Service
  • Module 1: The Basics
    • Lab 1 - Accessing F5 Distributed Cloud Console
    • Lab 2 - Create a Virtual Kubernetes Cluster
  • Module 2: Deploy and Scale Virtual K8s Workload
    • Lab 1 - Review vK8s Cluster and Deploy vK8s Workload
    • Lab 2 - Scale vK8s Deployment
  • Module 3: Publish Application to the Internet
    • Lab 1 - Create Origin Pool
    • Lab 2 - Publish to the Internet
  • Module 4: Monitoring Operating System Metrics with MQTT and Grafana
    • Lab 1 - Configure your jumphost to access your virtual K8s
    • Lab 2 - Deploy Containers on vK8s and Build Grafana Dashboard
    • Lab 3 - Review Results
    • Lab Optional - Use kubectl to view vK8s Output
    • Lab Optional - Manually Create a TCP Load Balancer and Origin Pool
• F5 Distributed Cloud: Automating Build & Operations
  • Welcome
  • Outcomes
  • Lab & Tasks
    • Introduction: Accessing F5 Distributed Cloud Console
    • Lab 1: API-First Console
    • Lab 2: Leveraging Terraform
    • Lab 3: Utilize Automation to Audit XC Configurations
    • Conclusion
    • Appendix