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Thursday, April 5, 2018

F5 Agility is coming to Boston, MA this August!

The DevCentral team will be at F5’s largest user conference to date! Will you?

Now's the time to register for F5 Agility 2018 in Boston, MA August 13-16. Early Bird registration knocks $300 off your registration fee!

What's F5 Agility all about?

Besides an opportunity to meet fellow community peers, solution partners, and F5 experts, we’ll have

Breakouts!
Breakout sessions at Agility focus on the latest technologies, applications, and architecture strategies. The technical breakout sessions at Agility range from beginner to advanced, enabling you to select classes that best meet your needs. Additionally, you can choose from sessions in multiple tracks or use the recommended learning paths to focus on specific areas that matter most to you. Last year we had 62 hours, this year we’re expanding to 150+ hours of technical breakouts, including dedicated Spanish-language sessions.

Sample learning paths:

Application Security
Application Delivery
Access Management
Service Provider
Programmability
Cloud Solutions
Automation and Orchestration
Super-NetOps

Labs!
We have expanded lab offerings to a total of 80 hands-on lab sessions. Our comprehensive 4- or 8-hour labs will address a wide variety of installation, troubleshooting, and networking technologies across a variety of environments. The instructor-led classes also provide an opportunity to gain valuable knowledge in preparation for F5 Certification exams.

New for 2018, Agility will have a room dedicated to self-paced labs that are shorter and/or more targeted. Attendees will have the opportunity to go through these labs at their own pace, with instructors available to assist with any questions. All self-paced labs will be available on a first-come, first-served basis.

Certifications!
Are you getting started? Already F5 Certified? We’ll have F5 Certification exams running throughout the week. Be sure to sign up in advance in order to guarantee your seat.

And you can Meet the Experts

If the structured programs still leave you wanting more, we will have experts available to answer questions at the DevCentral booth during the Solutions Expo hours, as well as two breakout rooms dedicated to walk-in help for iRules and all things Programmability. If you are not yet a member of DevCentral, you can sign up on-site.

Also at Agility 2018

Solutions Expo
The core of the conference, our Solutions Expo brings together the various aspects of the F5 ecosystem. Learn what works where with whom, and meet solutions experts from all avenues.

Geek Fest
Lab attendees get a chance to rub elbows with each other and presenters over food, drinks, and (sometimes unconventional) activities.

F5 Connects Women
Women leaders from both F5 and our partners join to discuss the perspectives women bring to tech, as well as the influence we can have when our potential is realized.

5K Fun Run
Grab your runners and discover Boston by foot on a beautiful, urban run through the city with fellow attendees. DevCentral’s own John Wagnon leads this one!

For more information on reserving your place, go to F5 Agility 2018

We look forward to seeing you in Boston!

Tuesday, February 6, 2018

The DevCentral Chronicles Volume 1, Issue 2

If you missed our initial issue of the DC Chronicles, check it out here. The Chronicles are intended to keep you updated on DevCentral happenings and highlight some of the cool articles you may have missed over the last month. Welcome.

First up, 2018 will be the year that we publicly open up speaking proposals for our Agility conference this August. Historically, the presenters have been F5 employees or partners but this year, we’d love if you wanted to share your BIG-IP expertise, knowledge and mad-skillz to the greater F5 community. Review the info here and submit your proposal by Friday, Feb 9.

Next up is our exciting new (and FREE!) Super-NetOps training program. The Super-NetOps curriculum teaches BIG-IP administrators how to standardize services and provide them through automation tool chains. For Network Operations Engineers you can learn new skills, improve collaboration and advance your career. For Network Managers and Architects, you can support digital transformation and improve operational practices. As Jason Rahm notes with his Lightboard Lessons: Why Super-NetOps, Super-NetOps is not a technology but an evolutionary journey. Already featuring two complete classes on integrating NetOps expertise into the benefits of a DevOps world, this training program is poised to help the NetOps professional take a well-deserved seat at the continuous deployment table. I’ve taken the training and it is amazing.

Speaking of Lightboard Lessons, John Wagnon is going through the OWASP TOP 10 in his latest series and is already on number 5 of the list, Lightboard Lessons: OWASP Top 10 - Broken Access Control. The OWASP Top 10 is a list of the most common security risks on the Internet today and John has been lighting up each in some cool videos. If you want to learn about the OWASP TOP 10, start here and follow along.

Interested in BIG-IP security? Then check out Chase Abbot’s Security Hardening F5's BIG-IP with SELinux. When a major release hits the street, documentation and digital press tends to focus on new or improved user features, seldom do underlying platform changes make the spotlight. Each BIG-IP release have plenty new customer-centric features but one unsung massive update is SELinux’s extensive enforcing mode policy across the architecture. Chase says that, BIG-IP and SELinux are no strangers, having coexisted since 2009, but comparing our original efforts to our current SELinux implementation is akin to having your kid's youth soccer team shoot penalties against David Seaman. Good one.

Also filed under security for this edition is the Meltdown and Spectre Web Application Risk Management article by Nir Zigler. Nir talks about a simple setting that can reduce the attack surface with the “SameSite” Cookie Attribute. If you’re worried about those vulnerabilities, this is your article.

This week, I’ll be at the F5 AFCEA West Tech Day on Wednesday Feb. 7 as part of the AFCEA West 2018 Conference in San Diego. A full day of technical sessions covering the challenges of DoD cloud adoption with a fun Capture the Flag challenge. Our friends at Microsoft Azure will also talk about solutions to address the complex requirements of a secure cloud computing architecture. There is a great article over on MSDN explaining how to Secure IaaS workloads for Department of Defense with Microsoft and F5. #whereisdevcentral

Lastly, don’t forget to check out our Featured Member for February, Lee Sutcliffe, Lori’s take on #SOAD The State of Application Delivery 2018: Automation is Everywhere and the new F5 Editor Eclipse Plugin v2 which allows you to use the Eclipse IDE to manage iRules, iRules LX, iControl LX, and iApps LX development.

You can stay engaged with @DevCentral by following us on Twitter, joining our LinkedIn Group or subscribing to our YouTube Channel. Look forward to hearing about your BIG-IP adventures.

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Monday, August 3, 2015

Welcome to F5 Agility 2015

#F5Agility15 registration is open! I show you where to get registered and get your badge along with where many of the breakout sessions are occurring. He gives a quick preview of the theme – Innovate, Expand, Deliver along with a sneak peek of special guests this week. Welcome to F5 Agility 2015 at the Gaylord Resort and Convention Center!

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Thursday, July 30, 2015

F5Agility15 - The Preview Video

I preview the F5 Agility 2015 conference happening August 4-6 at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center in National Harbor, MD. Agility 2015 will lay the foundation for your business to innovate new paths to success, expand through barriers to growth, and deliver the applications your people need to be successful in their work.

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Thursday, May 21, 2015

That’s a Wrap from EMEA F5 Agility 2015

Our EMEA video partners at cloud-channel.tv, put together a nice wrap up F5 Agility 2015 from Edinburgh, Scotland. Special thanks to F5’s Manny Rivelo and Cisco’s Ravi Balakrishnan along with King Robert the Bruce, Sir William Wallace and a huge thanks to the many attendees for participating in our videos! And as always, Mahalo to you for watching. Reporting from Scotland, That’s a Wrap!

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Wednesday, May 20, 2015

F5 Agility 2015 EMEA – Sir William Wallace

The Guardian of Scotland, Sir William Wallace, shares how the real Sir William lived, loved and ultimately met his fate.

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F5 Agility 2015 EMEA – ACI with F5 & Cisco

Ravi Balakrishnan, Cisco Sr. Marketing Manager, discusses the Application Centric Infrastructure and how F5 & Cisco, former fierce competitors, have come together in a joint integrated solution to solve many customer challenges. Cisco’s SND strategy in bringing together programmability, openness of the ecosystem, the agnostic nature of physical and virtual and the ability to support multi-tenant type deployments gives organizations agility and low TCO. With F5, customers can achieve L2-7 ADC control without the risks of manual error. Best of network control and application awareness!

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F5 Agility 2015 EMEA – Innovate Expand Deliver with Manny Rivelo

Manny Rivelo, F5 EVP of Strategic Solutions and our soon-to-be CEO, shares his vision of Innovate Expand Deliver at F5 Agility 2015. He talks about what hybrid application services means to organizations, how F5 has evolved from just a load balancing company, how organizations use F5 solutions across traditional, hybrid and cloud data centers and how F5 software powers and drives the business. He also shares his favorite part of F5 Agility. Applications without constraints. Thanks Manny!

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What Are You Looking Forward To At F5 Agility 2015?

Attendees from all over the world share their thoughts and what they are expecting at F5 Agility 2015. Fun round of guests.

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