DevOps is the best practice for businesses to pursue digital transformation strategies to venture into new revenue streams or simply remain competitive. It’s hard, though. One of the biggest challenges DevOps practitioners are facing is the... Read more

There are a lot of technical resources on how Ansible can be used to automte the F5 BIG-IP. A consolidated list of links to help you brush up on Ansible as well as help you understand the Ansible BIG-IP solution > - github/devcentral etc I am... Read more

Join us for our 2nd joint webinar with Ansible on Wednesday May 31st, 2017 from 11AM to 12PM PST where we will dig deeper into the F5/Ansible integration. Read more

In this episode we provide some instructions on developing iApp templates for use on iWorkflow. In the early versions of iWorkflow (before v2.1.0), the platform inherited its iApp templates from BIG-IP devices. By popular demand, this is no longer... Read more

Many of our NetOps friends are under pressure from leadership to become more efficient and integrate with continuous deployment orchestration tools. While most can see the business benefits, and fully understand the drive towards programmable... Read more

The following articles covers new features in the 12.1 AWS Marketplace release (Cloud-init, Single-Nic and Auto Scale) Read more

Henry Ford (did or didn’t) famously say “You can have any color car as long as it’s black.” Without getting into the debate over whether he actually did say that, it’s attributed to Mr. Ford and his assembly line primarily due to the fact that it... Read more

In this final roundtable of programmability month, Jason and Peter tag team with Nathan Pearce, who joins the gang to discuss the goodness that is iWorkflow. Read more

We’ve expanded over the years to include systems, configuration, advanced modules, security, etc, but programmability has historically been the bread and butter of what we do. Given the success we had with February’s security month, this... Read more

Demand for faster time-to-market, for new applications and services, is changing the way entire systems are deployed. No longer will organizations tolerate lengthy delays in the release of revenue generating or productivity improving solutions.... Read more

In this final article in the Getting Started with iApps series, we’ll ship gears from concepts and code to best practices and lessons learned. Start Small iApps are complex. If you don’t know tmsh, or better, tmsh scripting, I’d recommend spending... Read more

In the previous article in this series, we took a stock iApp shipped with the product and stripped it down to show how to modify an existing iApp. In this article, we’ll tackle creating a simple iApp from scratch. The Scenario You have a test... Read more

Now that the esteemed Chase Abbott has blazed the trail with all the iApps foundational goodness surrounding concepts and components in the first two articles in this Getting Started with iApps series, we can move into the practical! In this... Read more

iApps are a programmable and customizable framework for deploying and managing applications as a service. Developers can create templates that administrators can use to deploy commonly-used applications such as Oracle, SAP, or Exchange by completing a series of questions that relate to their management and infrastructure needs. Read more

DevCentral's Chase Abbott explores the main components that make up F5's iApp application services and templates. Understand the components required to create and use iApps in your application ecosystem. Read more

F5 iApps are user-customizable frameworks for deploying applications that enables you to ‘templatize’ sets of functionality on your F5 gear. You can automate the process of adding virtual servers or build a custom iApp to manage your iRules... Read more

Jason hosts a roundtable discussion on the state of F5 BIG-IP iApps. Joining Jason is Fred Slater, author extraordinaire of many of the iApps released by F5 with the product, and Ken Bocchino, author of the recently released iApps analytics... Read more

F5's iApps provide admins and service desks a template solution for application deployment and management services. Read more

NOTE: This iWorkflow 101 episode assumes that you already have a licensed F5 BIG-IP Device (physical or virtual) and F5 ® iWorkflow™ platform. These steps are covered in iWorkflow 101 (episode #2): Install and Setup. To better understand... Read more

Last weeks episode, The Architecture Explained, drew a lot of attention. The most frequent request was for video content showing the iWorkflow interface and how the Tenants and connectors are configured (if you don’t understand those... Read more

Announcing F5® iWorkflow™ F5's Programmability & Orchestration team is pleased to announce the release of iWorkflow™ 2.0. Today, May 17th, marks the beginning of your application delivery “doing-more-in-less-time”... Read more

If you hadn’t seen (and you might not have, it was a developer kind of thing after all) there was a big uproar caused by the removal of 11 lines of JavaScript from the popular NPM repository. You can read more about it but the TL;DR is this: dude... Read more

I’ve had a number of conversations about Norman Doors over the last few weeks. So, what’s a Norman Door? Ever tried to open a door by pulling it instead of pushing? It was probably because the door had a handle on it, which we naturally associate... Read more

In my last (horribly misspelled in earlier versions) blog post on this subject we looked at how to deploy a new application service from an iApp template using an iControl REST API call. So far so good. Now I want to update this application... Read more

Here at F5’s Network Function Virtualisation (NFV) team we constantly think out of the box. Well, mostly, there are no boxes at all.  I say mostly, as when looking at Software Defined Networking (SDN) switches and our programmable TMOS... Read more