F5 Agility Labs - Index

Welcome to the F5 NGINX Solutions lab at F5 Agility 2021

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

Contents:

• Class1 - Introduction to NGINX Plus
  • Getting Started
  • Join UDF course
  • NGINX Plus Installation
  • NGINX Plus Load Balancing Configuration
  • Shared Memory Zone Synchronization
  • Explore the Dashboard and API
• Class2 - NGINX Plus CICD Lab
  • Introduction
  • Module 1: Creating docker images for NGINX Plus
  • Module 2: Deploying NGINX Plus web server with CICD
  • Module 3: Continuous Deployment for NGINX Plus Load Balancers
• Class3 - NGINX Dataplane Scripting
  • Getting Started
  • Hello World [http/hello]
  • Decode URI [http/decode_uri]
  • Extract JWT Payload into NGINX Variable [http/authorization/jwt]
  • Subrequests join [http/join_subrequests]
  • Secure hash [http/authorization/secure_link_hash]
  • File IO [misc/file_io]
  • Complex redirects using njs file map. [http/complex_redirects]
  • Injecting HTTP header using stream proxy [stream/inject_header]
  • Generating JWT token [http/authorization/gen_hs_jwt]
  • Choosing upstream in stream based on the underlying protocol [stream/detect_http]
  • Authorizing requests using auth_request [http/authorization/auth_request]
  • Authorizing requests based on request body content [http/authorization/request_body]
  • Subrequests chaining [http/subrequests_chaining]
  • Authorizing connections using ngx.fetch() as auth_request [stream/auth_request]
  • Modifying or deleting cookies sent by the upstream server [http/response/modify_set_cookie]
  • Converting response body characters to lower case [http/response/to_lower_case]
  • Reading subject alternative from client certificate [http/certs/subject_alternative]
• Class4 - Introduction to NGINX Instance Manager
  • Introduction
  • Background
  • Overview
  • Module 1: Installing NGINX Instance Manager
  • Module 2: Managing NGINX Instances
  • Module 3: Securing NGINX Instance Manager
• Class5 - NGINX APP Protect
  • Module 1 - Deploy modern application with modern tools
  • Module 2 - Protect Arcadia with NGINX App Protect in Docker
  • Module 3 - Protect Arcadia with NGINX App Protect in Linux host
  • Module 4 - Protect Arcadia with NGINX App Protect in Kubernetes Ingress Controller
  • Module 5 - API Security
  • Module 6 - Advanced features
• Class6 - NGINX API Management and Security
  • Module 1 - Deploy modern API for a modern app
  • Module 2 - Deploy the API Gw instance
  • Module 3 - Publish the API
  • Module 4 - Add security controls
  • Module 5 - DevPortal
  • Module 6 - Reporting
• Class7 - NGINX Kubernetes Ingress Controller and Rancher
  • Introduction
  • Module 1: UDF and Environment walk through.
  • Module 2: Standing up the Rancher Kubernetes Engine (RKE)
  • Module 3: The Rancher Manager and RKE
  • Module 4: Deploying NGINX Kubernetes Ingress Controller to the RKE cluster
  • Module 5: Deploying a lightweight test application on NGINX
  • Module 6: EXTRA CREDIT Prometheus and Grafana (time permitting)