Lab Environment & Topology

Note

Some of the activities in this lab will be perform from the Client Workstation, which can be accessed via RDP (Windows Remote Desktop), Web Shell or Web Proxy. No installation or interaction with your local system is required.

Environment

Tools used in this lab:

• Postman - An API platform for building and using APIs
• curl - command line webclient. Very useful for debugging and request crafting
• jsonmate - Build, test and share your JSON, transformations and schemas
• Docker - Service to run containerized workloads

Lab Topology

The network topology implemented for this lab is very simple. The following components have been included in your lab environment:

• 1 x Windowser Server 2019, with client tools installed
• 1 x F5 BIG-IP VE (v16.1.2.1) running ASM, APM, and LTM
• 1 x Ubuntu Linux 20.04 server, with Docker installed hosting the Arcadia Finance application aand PetStore

The following table lists VLANS, IP Addresses and Credentials for all components:

Component	Management	Front	Back	Credentials/Access
Client Workstation	10.1.1.7	10.1.10.6	N/A	https-f5student:password
F5 BIG-IP (BIG-IP)	10.1.1.4	10.1.10.4	10.1.20.4	https - admin:admin
App Server	10.1.1.252	N/A	10.1.20.252	webshell - Via UDF

Note

External links are not required reading for the lab, rather supplemental if you you would like to get a different take or additional info.