2018 blog posts(93)
Empower DevOps Pipelines with Container Ingress App Services
The growth of container app development incorporated into DevOps pipelines is nearing peak adoption across the app landscape, but some challenges persist. F5 declarative automation and orchestration s...
By Jonathan GeorgeF5 Friday: Ingress versus ingress
As the worlds of DevOps and NetOps collide and container environments subsume definitions traditionally used in the network, let’s explore the use of the often-confusing term "ingress" in terms of the...
By Lori Mac VittieHonoring F5’s Top Partners in North America
Regional VP of Channels Lisa Citron congratulates the winners of the 2018 North America Partners of the Year Awards, recognizing the exceptional performance of strategic resellers, service providers, ...
By Lisa CitronCloud Isn't Finished Disrupting the Data Center
Cloud showed us a better way to onboard, provision, and operate network and application infrastructure—aspects that have been steadily pushing their way into the data centers of organizations worldwid...
By Lori Mac VittieTop 10, Top 10 Predictions for 2019
It’s the time of year when crystal balls get a viewing and many pundits put out their annual predictions for the coming year. Peter Silva collects his picks of notable prediction lists making the roun...
By F5Protecting Machine Identity with Venafi and F5
With “machine identities,” we’re simply talking about how to ensure that an automated process can identify itself, and how other automated systems and processes grant the appropriate level of access t...
By Frank StrobelHow Service Mesh Enables DevOps
Shawn Wormke from Aspen Mesh explains how service mesh is a glue that helps unite Development and Operations teams, providing one place in the stack that you can manage microservices at runtime withou...
By Shawn WormkeThingbots Transforming to Attack Platforms
Lori MacVittie highlights F5 Labs research on global attacks against IoT devices from January–June 2018, pointing out the sobering implications. Not only do IoT devices continue to be exploited, but t...
By Lori Mac VittieChanging Security Rules in Real Time with Machine Learning
A particularly compelling advantage of applying machine learning to application security is that it focuses on constantly learning what is normal and identifying what is not. Lori MacVittie explains h...
By Lori Mac VittieGet Straight Down to Business on AWS, with F5’s New Quick Start
Before the start of AWS re:Invent, we’re excited to share the new Quick Start integration between F5 and AWS. F5’s Tom Atkins discusses how the service launches, configures, and runs the AWS compute, ...
By Tom AtkinsHow Declarative Interfaces Democratize Infrastructure
In technology, simplification means abstraction, with declarative interfaces serving as a good example of that abstraction. By simplifying the interfaces used to provision, configure, manage, and inte...
By Lori Mac VittieApplication Services Update: In search of visibility
It’s time again to dig into the application services organizations are actually using to make apps faster and safer. Of note this quarter again is a continuing rise in use of bot defense services, as ...
By Lori Mac VittieF5 Friday: F5 Infrastructure as Code with Terraform
Just as it’s true that the application platform—the web or app server or app engine—must be provisioned first, so too must the network and application service platforms be provisioned before they can ...
By Lori Mac VittieThe Open Source Shift
Speculation continues around why businesses and industries formerly reluctant to officially encourage open source software use have suddenly embraced it. Most often, the legacy culprit is assumed to b...
By Lori Mac VittieServerless is Real - and Growing like Gangbusters
Serverless means developers don’t need to worry about infrastructure. And the business, too, sees value in its speed and efficiency. Combined with the frictionless nature of deploying code with server...
By Lori Mac VittieF5 Helps Launch AWS Consulting Partner Private Offers Program
F5 is one of an exclusive group of launch partners of AWS’ Consulting Partner Private Offers Program, giving partners extended capabilities in making F5 application services available to customers via...
By Tom AtkinsSupply-Chain Hacks and Hardware’s Role in Security
Chief Architect Dave Schmitt and the Office of the CTO reflect on the importance of hardware security expertise in the context of the recent Bloomberg piece on Super Micro. The article also includes q...
By F5As-Code: The Continuous IT Stack
Infrastructure, Configuration, Pipeline, Operations. Suddenly everything is “as code.” Lori MacVittie attempts to sort through the terminology and identify the different components within a continuous...
By Lori Mac VittieMicroservices: Less Micro and More Services
Lori MacVittie explores how the industry has found itself with a strange hybrid of Service-Oriented and Microservice architectures that leaves many wondering where one ends and the other begins.
By Lori Mac VittieF5 Friday: Pushing F5 Telemetry to Your Pipeline
When we recently polled IT ops practitioners on the ‘State of Network Automation,’ we found the market experiencing a number of challenges. Among those cited specifically by NetOps professionals was a...
By Lori Mac VittieIT Ops Must go Beyond Scripting to Automation
The goal of automation in almost any industry focuses on optimization and eliminating bottlenecks. In the world of IT, that typically means addressing the in-between steps of an operational process.
By Lori Mac VittieDay 0 was Day 1 of Development
From day one of development through post-deployment, the choices we make regarding the security of the entire application stack play out with far-reaching consequences.
By Lori Mac VittieWanted: Your Perspective on the State of Application Services
The evolution of F5’s annual survey now emphasizes the application services you need rather than the platforms you use to deliver them. Learn more and participate in the survey today!
By Lori Mac VittieIntegration an Obstacle to Achieving Continuous Deployment
APIs are not integration. They are a means to implement integration. And judging by the challenges seen in the industry, they aren’t enough for IT to get continuous.
By Lori Mac VittieApplication Services Update: Sensitive Services may be Accessible
It’s time again to dig into the application services organizations are actually using to make apps faster and safer.
By Lori Mac VittieWhy Infrastructure Matters to Developers using Containers
Just as previous app architectures have driven responses in the network infrastructure, so are containers and microservices. Only this time the changes aren’t coming in the form of a new box. What’s h...
By Lori Mac VittieSDN-Enablement of ISP Threat Sharing
During F5’s recent Agility conference in Boston, a group of industry participants from the global service provider community met to discuss and debate topics such as the role of emerging SDN infrastru...
By F5Why Should DevOps Practitioners Care about Per-App Architectures?
For decades, application services have been deployed on shared platforms. But emerging application architectures such as microservices are forcing changes in the production pipeline that better map to...
By Lori Mac VittieF5 Friday: Configuration as Code with F5 AS3
From F5’s Office of the CTO, Lori MacVittie draws connection points between DevOps practices and F5’s new declarative interface that decreases reliance on APIs and increases the ability to implement a...
By Lori Mac Vittie
Using NGINX and NGINX Plus with SELinux
When Security-Enhanced Linux (SELinux) is enabled for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and related distros, its default settings prevent NGINX and NGINX Plus from performing some operations. This artic...
By Owen Garrett