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This weblog is a joint collaboration between Ravi Balakrishnan (Cisco) and Patrick Campbell (F5)
F5 Agility Occasion
Subsequent week’s F5’s Agility 2022 occasion is entitled “Safe. Simplify. Innovate” which I believed relates very well to Cisco-F5 joint options. I say this as a result of our joint focus has persistently concerned constructing options for the good thing about our joint customers. We attempt to maneuver past the boundaries we generally encounter to simplify and innovate round software deployment.
Newest Launch
On the final day of January, we launched the tenth launch our F5 ACI ServiceCenter App as a part of our partnership that includes F5 and Cisco’s Cloud Networking enterprise unit. We’re pleased with this work and the truth that the F5 App has one of many highest downloads statistics on the Cisco DC App Heart. Customers will discover that a lot of our new F5 ACI ServiceCenter v 2.10 options and enhancements handle the UI and improve ‘consumer readiness’.
Enhancements
It’s worthwhile to contemplate how we’ve simplified software deployment although the usage of F5’s FAST templates and Software Providers Extension 3 (AS3) which by design, are each clear to customers. FAST stands for F5 Software Providers Templates and is our subsequent technology of configuration declaration know-how. As a separate FAST Extension, it’s constructed as an extra abstraction layer on high of our AS3. To be extra particular, FAST is now additionally a part of the F5 ACI ServiceCenter App we developed with Cisco for ACI integration, together with AS3. For individuals who need be taught extra about FAST, I like to recommend this overview with a demo which illustrates the way it works and what’s actually taking place below the covers with AS3…. INNOVATE…..
Conceptually, for many who should not accustomed to AS3, this F5 innovation is a versatile, low-overhead declarative API-based mechanism for managing application-specific configurations on a BIG-IP system. With AS3, you merely specify the specified end-state configuration, and AS3 configures the system so that you can attain that desired end-state, all by utilizing a single REST API name. ….SIMPLIFY….. Technical readers can look deeper at the AS3 documentation right here.
This latest launch of our app additionally provides an optionally available functionality which permit us to drag superior digital server statistics on VIP Visibility Dashboard. With the Telemetry Streaming plugin put in on the BIG-IP gadget, F5 ACI ServiceCenter App might be configured as a Pull Client to retrieve the system statistics from the BIG-IP, Or with additional customization, the App might be configured to filter simply the precise Pool and Digital Server stats for a scaled setting. These focused real-time statistics pulled from the BIG-IP generally is a good integration software for engineers when troubleshooting software visitors drop. Furthermore, it allows them to troubleshoot from a single pane of glass.
Be a part of us
For these of you who’ve been following our F5-Cisco ACI improvement effort, in addition to those that haven’t been watching that carefully, the F5 Agility 2022 occasion subsequent week synthesizes and showcases the most recent concepts and improvements round adaptive purposes – making attendance a “should” for each practitioners and members of management.
An ideal instance of how we plan to showcase our joint F5-Cisco options is the “Cisco ACI and F5 BIG-IP Infrastructure as Code with Terraform” session led by Eric Ji, considered one of F5’s skilled Resolution Architects.
Cisco – F5 joint resolution improvement continues at a FAST tempo…. (Pun supposed 😉), Keep tuned for extra through our persevering with weblog sequence on the Cisco Information Heart weblog platform.
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F5 ACI ServiceCenter App v2.10
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