F5-CA case studies
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The F5 Certified Professionals program is F5's own certification framework for technical professionals who work with F5 products and solutions. According to F5, the program is designed to help candidates "develop career-advancing technical skills and extensive knowledge of F5 products and solutions," and it offers certification options emphasizing four areas: Administration, Sales, Product Specializations, and Solutions including Cloud and Security. The F5-CA case studies are 5 cases and about 3,569 words.
1Intermittent 5xx on a Two-Data-Center Order Pool
Your company runs a pair of BIG-IP i5800 appliances in active/standby for an order-entry application. The virtual server vs orders 443 uses a pool of six members split evenly across two data centers, an HTTP monitor (GET /health, interval 5s, timeout 16s, receive string "OK"), a one-connect profile, and SNAT automap.
731 words, about 4 min2Refreshing a Bank's i2600 Pair with a Cloud-First Mandate
A regional bank runs a three-year-old pair of BIG-IP i2600 appliances carrying LTM, APM, and ASM. Peak traffic is 12 Gbps and average is 4 Gbps; peak SSL TPS is 400.
747 words, about 4 min3Retiring a Citrix Gateway with APM Sessions
A healthcare network with 8,000 employees runs a patient portal behind a pair of BIG-IP 2000 appliances on version 12.1, licensed for LTM only. The security team wants to retire a Cisco ASA AnyConnect deployment and a Citrix Gateway, replace them with a single remote-access solution, add SAML single sign-on to Epic, and enforce Duo MFA for 1,200 concurrent remote clinicians.
658 words, about 3 min4HA Across Two AWS Availability Zones for a Retailer
An e-commerce retailer is migrating from on-premises BIG-IP DNS and LTM to AWS. It will run in us-east-1 and eu-west-1, serves 6,000 requests per second at peak, must keep its existing hostnames, requires WAF on the storefront, and has a 30-minute recovery time objective.
713 words, about 4 min5Advanced WAF Across 25 On-Premises and 35 SaaS Applications
A retail chain has 60 web applications in PCI scope: 25 hosted on-premises and 35 delivered as SaaS, including its storefront platform and payment pages. It has purchased BIG-IP Advanced WAF for all 60 applications and deployed it on a pair of appliances in the data center.
720 words, about 4 min