Being a F5 consultant for many years, I have experienced many situations where my clients forgot to keep track of their various certificates and ensuring their critical applications deployed across multi-cloud and on prep are valid. I have put together a quick guide on how to use HashiCorp Vault to…

The follow iRule performs logging and captures various information related to incoming HTTP requests and responses. Here’s a breakdown of what the iRule does: The `CLIENT_ACCEPTED` event: When a client connection is accepted, it generates a unique identifier (`uid`) using the `createGuid` function. The `HTTP_REQUEST` event: When an HTTP request…

As businesses continue to expand their digital footprint, it’s become increasingly important to ensure that their network infrastructure is secure and well-managed. One tool that many businesses use to manage their network infrastructure is PAN-OS Panorama, a network security management platform that provides centralized control over multiple firewalls. In this…

I’ve been spending all of 2022 learning about #HashiCorp Consul and studying for the certification. So I wanted to provide a comprehensive guide on how to study for the HashiCorp Consul exam. Prerequisites Containerization knowledge Basic terminal skills Understand Consul K/V store Understand basics of Service Mesh Networking skills including load…

Spot on! 1. Complexity: Network devices can be highly complex and automating them may require significant resources and expertise. Without sufficient resources and expertise, companies may struggle to implement automation effectively. 2. Limited understanding of the technology: Automating network devices requires a deep understanding of the underlying technology and protocols…

What is break glass? Break Glass accounts are a type of privileged account that are used in emergency situations, such as system failures or security breaches. They should be managed in a way that ensures they are only used when absolutely necessary, and that their use is auditable and traceable. …

Grab the code here https://github.com/maniak-academy/gcp-terraform-consul-nia Overview In this build, you will deploy a common set of PAN-OS VM-Series firewalls to to build a secure Google Cloud hub and spoke network internet inbound internet outbound east-west traffic The build shows how traffic flows through the VM-Series firewalls and load balancers. Event Driven Architecture Workloads, services…

To start it’s useful to talk about what does a traditional environment look like in terms of end-to-end application workflow and how that typically requires some sort of manual intervention at the network layer. Typically the build of an application starts like this, we have a proxy (F5 or NGINX)…

I have been working with F5 BIGIPs for over 15 years and I’ve built many best practices around deploying secure web application. So it only makes sense that publish my first terraform module that builds a production setup with f5 bigip using AS3 and HashiCorp Vault PKI Engine. Objective: Automate…