4.5. Creating an Inbound Application Deployment

You have completed the create of SSL Orchestrator Inspection Services, Service Chain, and Traffic Policy. The next step is to apply this to an application.

4.5.1. Create an Inbound Application with SSL Orchestrator Policy

1. In the BIG-IP Central Manager GUI, click on the Workspace icon to show the Workspace Menu.

2. Click on Applications to navigate to the Applications workspace. You should see the application that you created in the previous lab module.

   

3. Click on + Add Application to open the Add Application panel.

4. Enter my-sslo-lab2-app in the Application Service Name field.

5. Leave the Application Service type selection as Standard (default).

6. Click on the Start Creating button to open the Application Service Properties panel.

7. Enter My SSLO inbound application in the Description field.

8. Click on the Start Creating button to reveal the Virtual Server and Pool configuration options.

9. Click on Pools to show the Pool configuration options.

10. Click on + Create to add a new Pool.

    • Enter my-pool in the Pool Name field.

    • Change the Service Port to 443 (default value was 80)

    • Click on the Monitor Type field to show the available options.

    • De-select http and select icmp

    • Click outside of the list to use the selected options.

11. Click on Virtual Servers to switch to back to the Virtual Server configuration options.

    • Enter my-app2-sslo in the Virtual Server Name field.

    • In the Pool field, select the my-pool pool.

    • Change the Virtual Port to 443 (default value was 80)

12. In the Protocols & Profiles field, click on the edit icon to open the settings panel.

13. Enable (toggle on) the Enable HTTPS (Client-Side TLS) option to show additional settings.

    • Click on the Add button to open the configuration panel.

    • In the Add Client-Side TLS panel, enter wildcard.f5labs.com as the name

    • Select wildcard.f5labs.com in the RSA certificate dropdown list box. This certificate was pre-installed in your lab environment.

    • Click on the Save button to close the panel.

14. Scroll down to see the other Protocol & Profiles options.

15. Enable (toggle on) the Enable Server-side TLS option.

16. Ensure that the Enable SNAT and Enable Auto SNAT options are enabled (default).

17. Disable (toggle off) the Enable Connection Mirroring option.

18. Click on the Save button to the close the Protocols & Profiles panel.

    Notice that the TLS and HTTPS labels were added, and MIRRORING was removed.

19. In the Security Policies column, click the edit icon to open the Security Profiles panel.

    

20. Enable (toggle on) the Use an SSL Orchestrator Policy option and then select your SSL Orchestrator traffic policy.

    

21. Click Save to close the panel.

    Notice that the SSLO label now shows in the Security Policies column.

    

22. At the bottom right corner, click on the Review & Deploy button to open the Deploy panel.

    • Click on the Start Adding button.

    • Select the instance named bigip-next.f5labs.com.

    • Click on the + Add to List button.

23. In the Virtual Address field, enter 10.1.10.21 .

24. In the Members column, click on the down arrow and then click + Pool Members to open the settings panel.

    • Click on the + Add Row button 3 times to create empty entries.

    • Add the following entries:

      • Name: mbr-192.168.100.11, IP Address: 192.168.100.11

      • Name: mbr-192.168.100.12, IP Address: 192.168.100.12

      • Name: mbr-192.168.100.13, IP Address: 192.168.100.13

    • Click on the Save button to close the Pool settings panel.

25. In the Configure column, click the edit icon.

    • Enable (toggle on) the Enable VLANs to listen on option and select clientside.

    • Click Save.

26. Click on the Validate All button to validate the pending configuration changes.

    

27. If validation is successful, you will see Validated.

28. [Optional] Click on the View Results link to view the configuration and then click Exit to close the results panel.

29. Click on the Deploy Changes button. Then, click on the Yes, Deploy button to send the application configuration to the BIG-IP Next instance.

When the deployment has completed, the Application Services dashboard will show the status of the new application.