F5 Distributed Cloud Customer Edge

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F5 Distributed Cloud - Customer Edge Site - Deployment & Routing Options
F5 Distributed Cloud Customer Edge (CE) software deployment models for scale and routing for enterprises deploying multi-cloud infrastructure. Today's service delivery environments are comprised of multiple clouds in a hybrid cloud environment. How your multi-cloud solution attaches to your existing on-prem and cloud networks can be the difference between a successful overlay fabric, and one that leave you wanting more out of your solution. Learn your options with F5 Distributed Cloud Customer Edge software.
MattHarmon
Aug 14, 2023 Place Technical Articles
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F5 Distributed Cloud - Listener Logic
In a proxy, there is a client-side and server-side connection. In this article, we'll focus on how the proxy "picks-up" or "listens" for traffic on the client-side. There are many options and creative ideas that adapt to enterprises business needs. First, we need to know the mechanics and what is possible, and this article covers those basics.
MattHarmon
Jan 02, 2024 Place Technical Articles
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Demo Guide: Edge Compute with F5 Distributed Cloud Services (SaaS Console, Automation)
This demo guide provides walk-through steps or Terraform scripts to deploy and connect with multi-cloud-networking (MCN) a sample Compute Edge app infrastructure across multiple cloud providers (Azure and AWS) or a single cloud of your choosing.
Nik_Garkusha
Jun 26, 2023 Place Technical Articles
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Protect an application on-premises or in the cloud with F5 XC WAAP Customer Edge
Understand in less than 5 minutes how F5XC WAAP can be deployed everywhere even if there is no F5 POPs around users and applications locations.
Matt_Dierick
Sep 22, 2022 Place Technical Articles
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Infrastructure as Code: Automating F5 Distributed Cloud CEs with Ansible
Introduction Welcome to the first installment of our Infrastructure as Code (IaC) series, focusing on F5 products and Ansible. This series has been a long-standing desire of mine to showcase the ability of IaC utilizing Ansible Automation Platform to deliver Day 0 through Day 2 operations with multiple F5 virtualized platforms. Over time, I've encountered numerous financial clients expressing interest in this topic. For many of these clients, the prospect of leveraging IaC to redeploy an environment outweighs the traditional approach of performing upgrades. This series will hopefully provide insight, documentation, and code for anyone embarking on this journey. Why Ansible Automation Platform? Like most people, I started my journey with community editions of Ansible. As my coding became more complex, so did the need to ensure that my lab infrastructure adhered to the best security guidelines required by my company (my goal being to mimic how customers would/should do things in real life). I began utilizing Ansible Automation Platform to ensure my credentials were protected, as well as to organize and share my code with the rest of my team (following the 'just in case you got hit by a bus' theory). Ansible Automation Platform utilizes execution environments (EE) to ensure code runs efficiently and cleanly every time. Now, I am also creating Execution Environments via GitHub with workflows and pushing them up to Quay.io (https://github.com/VDI-Tech-Guy/f5-execution-engines). Huge thanks to Colin McNaughton at Red Hat for making my life so much easier with building EEs! Why deploy F5 Distributed Cloud on VMware vSphere? As I mentioned before, I had this desire to build this Infrastructure as Code (IaC) code a while back. This was prior to the Broadcom acquisition of VMware. Being an ex-VMware employee, I had a lot of knowledge of virtualization platform infrastructure going into this project, and I started my focus on deploying on VMware vSphere. F5 Distributed Cloud can be deployed in any cloud, anywhere. However, I really wanted to focus on on-premises deployments because not every customer can afford the cloud. Moreover, there's always a back-and-forth battle between on-premises and the cloud, which has evolved into the Hybrid Cloud and the Multi-Cloud. I do intend to extend this series to the Multi-Cloud, but these initial deployments will be focused on VMware vSphere, as it is still utilized in many organizations across the globe. Information about the Setup in the Demo Video If you watch the video (down below) on how the deployment works, you can see i did a bunch of the pre-work prior to launching the deployment, in the git repostory (link in Resources). Here are some Prework items i did Had a fully functional Ansible Automation Platform 2.4+ enviornment setup and working. (at the time the controller version was 4.4.4) Execution Environment was imported into Ansible Automation Platform Controller The Project was setup to import the Playbooks from the Git Repository (In Resources Section below) and setup the Default Execution Environment Demo Inventory was setup (in our usecase we only needed the vCenter Host) We Setup Network Credentials for the vCenter The Template was setup and had Variables populated in it (Note the API Key was hidden). As mentioned in the Video (Below) The variables were populated to my environment, this contains all the information, i have provided a Demo Example in the git repository for anyone to mimic my settings to their environment, also the example has comments about each field or area of a field and the purpose of the variable. { "rhel_location": "https://vesio.blob.core.windows.net/releases/rhel/9/x86_64/images/vmware/rhel-9.2023.29-20231212012955-single-nic.ova", "xc_api_credential": "_____________________________________", "xc_namespace": "mmabis-automation", "xc_console_host": "f5-bd", "xc_user": "admin", "xc_pass": "Ansible123!", "vcenter_hostname": "{{ ansible_host }}", "vcenter_username": "{{ ansible_env.ANSIBLE_NET_USERNAME }}", "vcenter_password": "{{ ansible_env.ANSIBLE_NET_PASSWORD }}", "vcenter_validate_certs": false, "datacenter_name": "Apex", "cluster_name": "Worlds-Edge", "datastore": "TrueNAS-SSD", "dvs_switch_name": "DSC-DVS", "dns_name_servers": [ "192.168.192.20", "192.168.192.1" ], "dns_name_search": [ "dsc-services.local", "localdomain" ], "ntp_servers": [ "0.pool.ntp.org", "1.pool.ntp.org", "2.pool.ntp.org" ], "domain_fqdn": "dsc-services.local", "DVS_Name": "{{dvs_switch_name}}", "Internal_Network": "DVS-Server-vLan", "External_Network": "DVS-DMZ-vLan", "resource_pool_name": "Lab-XC", "waiting_period": 2, "temp_download_location": "/tmp/xc-ova-download.ova", "xc_ova_builds": [ { "hostname": "xc-automation-rhel-demo", "tmpl_name": "xc-automation-rhel-demo", "admin_password": "Ansible123!", "cluster_name": "xc-automation-cluster-rhel-demo", "dhcp": "no", "external_ip": "172.16.192.170", "external_ip_subnet_prefix": "24", "external_ip_gw": "172.16.192.1", "external_ip_route": "0.0.0.0/0", "internal_ip": "192.168.192.170", "internal_ip_subnet_prefix": "22", "internal_ip_gw": "192.168.192.1", "certified_hw": "vmware-regular-nic-voltmesh", "latitude": "39.51833126", "longitude": "-104.759496962", "build_count": 3, "nic_config": "rhel-multi" } ] } Launching the Code With all of that prework Handled it was as easy as launch the code, there were a few caviats i learned over time when dealing with the atuomation that i wanted to share. Never re-use a cluster name in F5 Distributed Cloud, especially if it was used in a different version of the CE (there were communications issues with the CEs and previous cluster information that was stored in F5 Distributred Cloud Console) The Api Credentials are system level when trying to accept registration or create the token for importing in to the environment. This code is designed to check for "{{ xc-namespace}}-token" if it exists then it will utilize the existing token, if not it will try to create it so you need system level permissions to do this. Build Count should be 3 by default (still needs to be defined) or an ODD number based on recomendations i have heard from our F5 Field. If there are more that i think of ill definatly edit the post and make sure its up-to-date. When launching the code i was able to get the lab to build up correctly multiple times, so please if there is an issue or something i might not have documented well, feel free to let me know and give it a shot for yourself! YouTube Video now on DevCentral Channel Resources https://github.com/f5devcentral/f5-bd-ansible-day0-automation - The Code utilized for this deployment https://github.com/VDI-Tech-Guy/f5-execution-engines - Building Execution Environments with Github and Workflows Conclusion I do hope that this series will help everyone who wants to embrace IaC and if you have any questions feel free to reach out!
Matt_Mabis
Mar 22, 2024 Place Technical Articles
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The App Delivery Fabric with Secure Multicloud Networking
This tutorial with accompanying workflow guide deploys customer edge sites and uses Distributed Cloud Multicloud Networking App Connect to establish a Secure MCN App Delivery Fabric, enabling only Layer7 app connectivity between two cloud sites. Manual and automation workflows show how to make this NetOps and DevOps task come to life.
Dave_Potter
Mar 29, 2024 Place Technical Articles
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Today's service delivery environments are comprised of multiple clouds in a hybrid cloud environment. How your multi-cloud solution attaches to your existing on-prem and cloud networks can be the difference between a successful overlay fabric, and one that leave you wanting more out of your solution. Learn your options with F5 Distributed Cloud Customer Edge software. ","introduction":"","metrics":{"__typename":"MessageMetrics","views":13060},"postTime":"2023-08-14T05:00:00.034-07:00","lastPublishTime":"2024-03-14T10:18:39.548-07:00","body@stripHtml({\"removeProcessingText\":true,\"removeSpoilerMarkup\":true,\"removeTocMarkup\":true,\"truncateLength\":-1})":" \n Introduction: \n F5 Distributed Cloud’s Customer Edge (CE) software is an incredibly powerful solution for Multi-Cloud Networking, Application Delivery, and Application Security. The Customer Edge gives you flexibility on how routing is distributed across a multi-cloud fabric, how client-side and server-side connections are handled, and ultimately the injection of highly effective L4-L7 services into a proxy architecture. Best yet, these powerful data planes are 100% managed from a central control-plane, F5 Distributed Cloud’s Console, giving a single pane of glass for configuration management and observability. \n \n That all sounds wonderful, but… there are a lot of details surrounding the deployment of the CE software. Details matter. The options at hand must be thoroughly examined for the best deployment model that fits your enterprise use case, existing network, cloud architecture(s), performance, and scale, day two operations, and personnel/team expertise. In this article, I hope to provide an overview of how to attach CEs to your network, how traffic flows from the network to the CEs for the different attachment models, and how CEs can benefit your enterprise. \n First, we must understand what environments can a CE be deployed. Keep in mind, the CE software is the same software deployed in our Regional Edges (REs). The difference is the REs are the SaaS data plane of F5 Distributed Cloud that F5 maintains and scales on the behalf of enterprises consuming services on the REs. Whereas the Customer Edge (CE) software is deployed within the enterprise environment. The CE software can be installed into four different platform types: \n \n Hypervisor - such as VMWare // KVM \n Hyperscaler - such as AWS // Azure // GCP \n Baremetal \n Kubernetes \n \n In this article, we will focus on the first 3 options, and leave the Kubernetes attachment for another day, as it is a little different from the other 3. If you’re familiar with F5 Distributed Cloud, you may also know that the CEs have two personas, one if which is Mesh for the use cases I mentioned above, and the other is AppStack, which is turning the CE into its own k8s cluster that you can bring workloads to. We will not be focusing on AppStack in this article. \n Deployment & Routing Options \n \n As you can see, there are five ways of getting traffic to a Customer Edge site (cluster) and the individual nodes making up that site/cluster. These five deployment models are grouped into three attachment types, Layer 3 attached (blue), Layer 2 attached (purple), and externally attached (green). You may have also noticed there are three CE nodes in each of the diagrams. If a single node is deployed, there is less to think about regarding scale and failover, but these attachments can still be utilized. To achieve High Availability when deploying multiple nodes, F5 Distributed Cloud requires three nodes. The three nodes are required to form a cluster due to the underlaying software stack. \n Layer Three Attached: \n This is personally my preferred method. I am a big believer in Equal Cost Multi-Path Routing (ECMP) to establish active/active/active pathing for traffic traversing the F5 Distributed Cloud Customer Edge software. However, not every environment may have routing available, especially dynamic routing via BGP. This may be due to limitations on the existing network, or comfort level of the individuals deploying the software with routing. However, if you are comfortable with routing, and the environment supports routing, this can be a great model for your enterprise. Both models shown above, static and BGP, support the expansion of a cluster via worker nodes. These worker nodes can provide horizontal scale and performance of the site/cluster. \n When statically routed, depending on your route/switch fabric, you may not get the desired effect. This could be because the of the lack of support for ECMP, or if the route is persistent even if the network cannot ARP for the next hop. However, setting up static routing is simple, quick, and takes less network expertise to accomplish. \n In the picture below, you’ll notice we’re using custom VIPs associated to 4 “color” applications/FQDNs. These custom VIPs act as loopbacks to a traditional router as they are locally significant to the F5 Distributed Cloud Customer Edge nodes. The three static routes configured in the network target the next hop of each Customer Edge node’s SLO or SLI interface to reach the custom VIP. Once the connection is established to the custom VIP, the software matches the application on criteria higher in the stack, such as port, SNI, or host information. \n \n This is the exact same for BGP attached, except BGP attached is dynamic in nature. Each custom VIP is injected as a /32 route into the route/switch fabric. If for whatever reason a node is unavailable, that custom VIP is removed from the route/switch fabric. \n Layer 2 Attached: \n A layer 2 attached model might be the most common for customers who are familiar with many other network appliances such as firewalls or load-balancers, even BIG-IP. Think of traffic groups and floating IPs in BIG-IP. These concepts typically utilize a First Hop Resolution Protocol (FHRP) known as VRRP. In F5 Distributed Cloud CE software, VRRP utilizes a VIP as a virtual address that is shared between the 3 nodes. However, the VIP is only active on one of the nodes, which creates an Active/Standby/Standby topology. The Active node’s MAC address is what is returned during the ARP process for the VIP. If a different node becomes active, the new active node’s MAC is now associated to the VIP and is updated in the broadcast domain via a process called Gratuitous ARP (GARP). \n Today, in F5 Distributed Cloud, if you’re using VRRP for your attachment, the VIP becomes active on a node at random. We do not expose any priority settings for the VIP. If using multiple custom VIPs and VRRP, this does allow for the potential of each of the nodes in the cluster to be active for a one or more of the VIPs. Meaning, you could have traffic actively utilizing all the nodes, but each of the nodes is only active for a specific VIP(s) and subset of apps associated to that VIP(s). \n In our picture below, we again have four color applications that are randomly active across each of the three nodes. Blue and purple are active on node0; red is active on node1, and green is active on node2. Take a close look at the ARP table and how the MAC addresses of the physical SLO interface map to the custom VIPs. Lastly, worker nodes participate in VRRP, and can be utilized to scale the cluster horizontally. \n \n External Attachment: \n The two external attachments for scaling services have been around for a very long time and have grown in popularity as enterprises have taken their tooling to cloud. When moving tooling from on-prem to cloud, the lack of L2 technologies such as ARP/GARP, forced many enterprises to re-think how traffic is routed to/through the tooling. This tooling includes Firewalls, Next-Generation Firewalls, Proxies, Load Balancers, Web Application Firewalls, API Gateways, Access Proxies and Federation tooling, and so on…. \n With an external Load Balancer (LB), these can be deployed as L4 or L7 load balancers for sending traffic to/through the Customer Edge software. If a L4 LB is chosen, depending on the LB technology, but it is likely that the source IP will be lost. If L7, you can use headers to maintain the source IP information, but if using TLS, you’ll need to manage certificates at the L7 LB, which may not be operationally efficient for your organization. We can scale the cluster with worker nodes by adding the worker nodes to the external LB pool. In this deployment model, custom VIPs are less needed, and the SLO or SLI interfaces can be the target. \n \n Like the inline LB, we can use an out-of-path LB via DNS. This DNS could be as simple as round-robin A-Records, or advanced Global Server Load-Balancing (GSLB), which incorporates configured intelligence and health checking into logic of what IP is sent in response to a DNS query. In this model, while health checking is available, the traffic flows would still be subject to DNS cache and TTLs for failover. As with the inline LB, worker nodes can be used to scale the cluster, and the node interface IP can be used as the DNS LB target. \n \n Summary: \n The F5 Distributed Cloud Customer Edge Software is a flexible component of the platform. The CE takes the F5 Distributed Cloud from a pure SaaS solution, to a multi-cloud fabric for Application Delivery and Security. Depending on the architecture of enterprises' different “service-centers” such as data centers and clouds, the Customer Edge software can attach to the network in many ways. Please consult your account team and F5 Distributed Cloud specialist for collaborative details on what may work best for your enterprise’s network and use case(s). \n \n Related Links \n \n \n A complete Multi-Cloud Networking walkthrough with F5 Distributed Cloud \n \n \n Get Started with WAAP Security Incidents \n \n \n F5 Distributed Cloud – Multiple custom certificates for HTTP/TCP LB \n \n \n ","body@stripHtml({\"removeProcessingText\":true,\"removeSpoilerMarkup\":true,\"removeTocMarkup\":true,\"truncateLength\":-1})@stringLength":"9881","kudosSumWeight":19,"repliesCount":3,"readOnly":false,"images":{"__typename":"AssociatedImageConnection","edges":[{"__typename":"AssociatedImageEdge","cursor":"MjUuM3wyLjF8b3wyNXxfTlZffDE","node":{"__ref":"AssociatedImage:{\"url\":\"https://community.f5.com/t5/s/zihoc95639/images/bS0zMTk0MzUtMjIwOThpRENGNzdDM0Y5OTEzRUY2MA?revision=16\"}"}},{"__typename":"AssociatedImageEdge","cursor":"MjUuM3wyLjF8b3wyNXxfTlZffDI","node":{"__ref":"AssociatedImage:{\"url\":\"https://community.f5.com/t5/s/zihoc95639/images/bS0zMTk0MzUtMjUxNTlpRTE4NUQxQjI3REYxMTI4Qg?revision=16\"}"}},{"__typename":"AssociatedImageEdge","cursor":"MjUuM3wyLjF8b3wyNXxfTlZffDM","node":{"__ref":"AssociatedImage:{\"url\":\"https://community.f5.com/t5/s/zihoc95639/images/bS0zMTk0MzUtMjUxNjBpQkQ0RjJGOEZDMjM1MDE3Qw?revision=16\"}"}},{"__typename":"AssociatedImageEdge","cursor":"MjUuM3wyLjF8b3wyNXxfTlZffDQ","node":{"__ref":"AssociatedImage:{\"url\":\"https://community.f5.com/t5/s/zihoc95639/images/bS0zMTk0MzUtMjUxNjhpODY0RUFGMzRGODlFMjZBQQ?revision=16\"}"}},{"__typename":"AssociatedImageEdge","cursor":"MjUuM3wyLjF8b3wyNXxfTlZffDU","node":{"__ref":"AssociatedImage:{\"url\":\"https://community.f5.com/t5/s/zihoc95639/images/bS0zMTk0MzUtMjUxNjlpNTI0OUY2RDk4REVBMzgxNQ?revision=16\"}"}},{"__typename":"AssociatedImageEdge","cursor":"MjUuM3wyLjF8b3wyNXxfTlZffDY","node":{"__ref":"AssociatedImage:{\"url\":\"https://community.f5.com/t5/s/zihoc95639/images/bS0zMTk0MzUtMjUxNzFpQzUyN0M2OTU1Mzk2OERENA?revision=16\"}"}},{"__typename":"AssociatedImageEdge","cursor":"MjUuM3wyLjF8b3wyNXxfTlZffDc","node":{"__ref":"AssociatedImage:{\"url\":\"https://community.f5.com/t5/s/zihoc95639/images/bS0zMTk0MzUtMjUxNzJpOTMwRTExMDM4OEQ0MjJDRg?revision=16\"}"}},{"__typename":"AssociatedImageEdge","cursor":"MjUuM3wyLjF8b3wyNXxfTlZffDg","node":{"__ref":"AssociatedImage:{\"url\":\"https://community.f5.com/t5/s/zihoc95639/images/bS0zMTk0MzUtMjUxNzNpRUUxQzRCRDU2RkM1Q0QwRg?revision=16\"}"}},{"__typename":"AssociatedImageEdge","cursor":"MjUuM3wyLjF8b3wyNXxfTlZffDk","node":{"__ref":"AssociatedImage:{\"url\":\"https://community.f5.com/t5/s/zihoc95639/images/bS0zMTk0MzUtMjUxNzRpM0MyNjNFM0Y5QUZCQzk0NQ?revision=16\"}"}}],"totalCount":9,"pageInfo":{"__typename":"PageInfo","hasNextPage":false,"endCursor":null,"hasPreviousPage":false,"startCursor":null}},"videos":{"__typename":"VideoConnection","edges":[],"totalCount":0,"pageInfo":{"__typename":"PageInfo","hasNextPage":false,"endCursor":null,"hasPreviousPage":false,"startCursor":null}}},"Conversation:conversation:326096":{"__typename":"Conversation","id":"conversation:326096","topic":{"__typename":"TkbTopicMessage","uid":326096},"lastPostingActivityTime":"2024-03-14T09:44:57.547-07:00","solved":false},"AssociatedImage:{\"url\":\"https://community.f5.com/t5/s/zihoc95639/images/bS0zMjYwOTYtMjcwMzFpRjE3Qzg5Njk5M0QwQTY4Mg?revision=8\"}":{"__typename":"AssociatedImage","url":"https://community.f5.com/t5/s/zihoc95639/images/bS0zMjYwOTYtMjcwMzFpRjE3Qzg5Njk5M0QwQTY4Mg?revision=8","title":"Listener Logic - 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In this article, we'll focus on how the proxy \"picks-up\" or \"listens\" for traffic on the client-side. There are many options and creative ideas that adapt to enterprises business needs. First, we need to know the mechanics and what is possible, and this article covers those basics. ","introduction":"","metrics":{"__typename":"MessageMetrics","views":2578},"postTime":"2024-01-02T10:30:00.032-08:00","lastPublishTime":"2024-03-14T09:44:57.547-07:00","body@stripHtml({\"removeProcessingText\":true,\"removeSpoilerMarkup\":true,\"removeTocMarkup\":true,\"truncateLength\":-1})":" \n Introduction: \n F5 Distributed Cloud is a SaaS enabled cloud agnostic solution to provide application delivery, application security and networking functions to customers every growing complex yarn ball of services spread across multiple service-centers. \n \n \n \n \n Service centers? The industry standard name for these types of environments is multi-cloud, or sometimes hybrid-cloud. To me, the word cloud quickly eliminates data centers, co-location (colo) rack spaces, and hosting facilities. We still see many customers that haven’t made the journey to a public cloud provider but have multiple physical facilities from their own data centers to a colo data center. Sometimes customers have just a single cloud provider, maybe a few hosted applications, but still maintain physical data center(s). To me, I like to refer to all of them as service-centers, as your applications and services are deployed within these different facilities. F5 is agnostic to the center that your services live. \n \n \n \n For Application Delivery and Security, F5 has always been known for its ability to add value as a proxy layer between the client and the server. By terminating a client-side connection, and establishing a server-side connection, F5 can inject services from L4 through L7 to best optimize the delivery and security of applications. This article is going to take a deeper look at the terminations of the client-side connection. Answering, how does F5 Distributed Cloud, pickup request traffic? \n Let’s first define the data planes within F5 Distributed Cloud. F5 Distributed Cloud has two data plane types. First is the Regional Edge (RE) which is a SaaS data plane. On the RE, a customer can consume services with no ownership of maintaining the hardware, software, or scale of the data plane. These REs are deployed in F5 regional locations. The second data plane is the Customer Edge (CE). The CE is owned and managed by the customer. The CE gives flexibility into where the data plane lives, as these software data planes can be deployed within the customers data center on their hypervisor, within a public cloud or hyperscaler, on baremetal, or even within Kubernetes (k8s) clusters. \n Listener Logic: \n In terms of listener logic, there is another critical factor and difference between the RE and CE. What are two important elements to establishing a connection? IP Address and Port. For a CE, since it is deployed within the customers facility, IP Addressing is straight forward, as the customer owns it. However, on an RE, F5 owns the deployment, which then means F5 owns the IP addressing. What options does a customer have? We’ll revisit those options in a bit. \n If you’re familiar with F5’s flagship product, BIG-IP, you’re very familiar with a “Virtual Server”. A Virtual Server was the most common entry point of a client’s traffic, which is where the BIG-IP’s listener logic began. If you remember, in a list of Virtual Servers, the most specific combination of source, destination and port matching the request, will pick up that traffic flow. Then from the Virtual Server, you can associate services relevant to the application(s) picked up by that Virtual Server. \n There is no difference in F5 Distributed Cloud. In F5 Distributed Cloud however, the Listener Logic is configured from within a Load Balancer object. We define this Listener Logic as an Advertise Policy. The Advertise Policy is a combination of {IP Address} + {Port} and depending on the type of load balancer you deploy, L4-L7 information. \n Let’s start by taking a closer look at an HTTP Load Balancer. Remember, HTTP is the Application layer (Layer 7) protocol parsed and proxied, but you can utilize SSL/TLS on this same Load Balancer type to achieve HTTPS. Looking at the HTTP LB load balancer deployed on a Regional Edge, you’ll notice the combination of IP and Port as part of the advertise policy within the green columns pictured below. From there, you have some options on how you’d like to configure the Load Balancer to pick up traffic. You can specify a domain or use a wildcard domain within the configuration, which will then add logic to the advertise policy on how-to pick-up traffic for that specific Load Balancer object. A specific domain would look like “host.domain.com” and a wildcard would look like “*.domain.com”. The more specific the match will determine which LB object is used when client-side traffic requests are received by the IP address and Port. These domains are either gathered as part of the Server Name Indication (SNI) value of the request when using HTTPS, or the host header if using HTTP. Lastly, there is a concept of a Default Load Balancer, which is used on an HTTPS load balancer, for anything that isn’t matched in a more specific domain match. An example of this would be, you have a wildcard certificate for *.domain.com, and you haven’t defined anywhere a domain on an LB of app3.domain.com, then traffic would be picked up by the Default Load Balancer. You could use routes to act on what to do with these requests that match the Default Load Balancer. Lastly, the selection of Default Load Balancer is only available on 1 LB object per Advertise Policy (IP+Port). \n \n The other Load Balancer type is a TCP Load Balancer or a Layer 4 Load Balancer. In this case, the IP and Port are still involved when advertising at the Regional Edge. One could argue the IP and Port are more critical for multiple TCP Load Balancers to be unique as there isn’t much more past Layer 4 to match on. This is an accurate assumption, but in F5 Distributed Cloud, if the service that is utilizing the TCP Load Balancer supports SNI, we do allow a domain to be configured and matched based on SNI. The concept of a Default Load Balancer on a TCP or Layer 4 Load Balancer, doesn’t exist, this is simply a LB that does not match on SNI, but would behave as a default for any client-side traffic flows entering the Regional Edge matching the IP and Port utilized by the Load Balancer. \n \n Now that we understand how critical an Advertise-Policy is to matching F5 Distributed Cloud Load Balancer Objects to traffic flows, let’s take a look at how we can utilize IP addressing to differentiate configuration objects. Typically, on an HTTP/HTTPS solution, you wouldn’t need many IP addresses to differentiate configuration objects. However, there are cases where you have multiple Default LBs, or maybe operationally you like to split out different types of traffic such as non-production and production. When looking at the Customer Edge, if you need more IP addresses, you can simply configure them as a custom IP address under the VIP advertisement. Depending on how your CEs attach to your network, will depend how that IP address is utilized across the CEs. You can see a pervious article of mine that talks through these attachment types - F5 Distributed Cloud - Customer Edge Site - Deployment & Routing Options. On a Regional Edge, where F5 owns the data plane, how can you get additional IPs to utilize from your tenant for advertisement of Load Balancer objects? \n There are three IP types available within a tenant. First, when you sign up as a customer for F5 Distributed Cloud, we will provide you a Default Tenant IP. As it stands today, this Tenant IP is attached to a global Virtual Site, and is advertised out of all Regional Edges. When building a Load Balancer, to utilize this default tenant IP, you’d simply select that you want to advertise to the Internet under VIP Adveritisement. The next two types of IP addresses are similar in these that they are additional or secondary to the tenant. You can choose to pay F5 for an Additional Tenant IP address (/32) or addresses, in which we will provide from our pool of IPs. There is a cost associated to each additional IP address F5 provides to the customer tenant. If you have some IP space just laying around, you can also choose to bring your own IP addresses (BYO-IP) to our platform, but they must be a /24 or larger. We charge per /24 that is brought to our platform. If you bring a contiguous /22, we’d charge for 4x /24s. This IP space is then advertised out of F5’s global network. You’ll see your list of IPs under shared public IP information from within the tenant. Both the Additional Tenant IP and the BYO Tenant IPs can be added to an LB object on a Regional Edge under VIP Advertisement as Internet (Specified VIP). You can also attach Virtual Sites to this Specified VIP, to limit which Regional Edge locations we’ll utilize for traffic. You can learn more on Virtual Sites and our advertisement in another previous article of mine - F5 Distributed Cloud - Regional Decryption with Virtual Sites. You can see below, I have provided an example of the tenant IP (purple) advertised out of all REs, an additional IP advertised out of 3 REs, and an IP from a BYO-IP space advertised out of 2 REs. \n \n Caveats: \n There are two caveats today to the listener logic. First, for a HTTP LB, where it is truly listening on HTTP port 80, we do not support a default Load Balancer. At the time of this article, there is a feature request in to enhance this service. It is not recommended to ever use non-encrypted protocols. However, there are use cases where a basic http 80 listener could be helpful such as a redirect service. The other caveat to the platform today, is that a Customer Edge (CE) doesn’t support the advertise policies that use certain ports. These ports are specific to the platform and cannot be used for advertise-policies associated to Load Balancers. \n \n Examples: \n I’d like to give an example of listener logic. This example provides 3 IP addresses to the tenant, default tenant IP and two additional tenant IPs. Note: the IPs are completely random and made up in my example. For my environment, I have a client, with a browser and local DNS server. DNS while indirectly related to listener logic, plays a big role in how a client is provided the addressing for a service. These example services are a combination of fully-qualified-domain names (FQDNs) and wildcard listeners. I’ve tried to visualize a simplified waterfall or flow down approach of per-IP most specific to least specific. Then by using a default origin setting, or L7 route logic, I can select the proper origin for the traffic that matched the listener logic for a particular Load Balancer object. \n \n #1 - Basic Listener Logic \n In this example, very simply, the client has entered in the browser app-b.domain.com with a protocol of HTTPS, DNS resolves this name to an IP of 78.54.32.11. When traffic is routed to the 78.54.32.11 IP address, the Regional Edge will pick up the traffic and because the request was for HTTPS, the port requested is 443. At this point we’ve matched on the basics of the advertise policy. Now, we look at the list of LBs with this Advertise Policy, find the most specific match for app-b.domain.com. We happen to have an exact match, which proxies to another object of origin pool of “origin-b”. This example is straight forward and basic but gives a good visual example of the process. Let’s look at some other interesting use cases you can solve with additional listener logic. \n \n #2 - Default http-to-https redirect \n In F5 Distributed Cloud, for every HTTPS Load Balancer you create, you have the option of checking a box for HTTP to HTTPS redirect. When checking this box, the platform builds another object on HTTP port 80 on the same domain, but with a route for http to https, and no origin attached. When using the check box, we basically double the number of Load Balancer object count. Another way to handle this is by not using the checkbox but by manually creating a redirect LB. \n In this example you see the client as requested app-y.domain.com but on http. This domain resolves in DNS to IP 85.45.44.32 and would come to the RE with a port request of 80. When looking at the LBs that are listening on 80, we have one specific app, app-z.domain.com, but that isn’t what was requested. For app-y.domain.com, we fall to a wildcard domain defined on a default-80-lb. For this LB we only have a route defined to always redirect http to https. This route would respond to the request with a 3xx response code, and a location to redirect to https. \n \n When the client receives this 3xx response code and location, the browser will create a new request for the service on HTTPS. When the traffic arrives back at the RE, it receives the traffic requesting port 443, which we then have a specific app-y.domain.com listener defined on. The associated LB, then forwards traffic to the proper origin, “origin-y”. \n \n #3 - Unused Domains & Direct Response Routes \n It is common for an organization to purchase additional domains such as vanity domains that encompass “typos” or simply are similar enough to the real domain, that they want to ensure traffic is still sent to the proper place. Another situation is where either by acquisition or merger, that domains are no longer in use. In both situations, you may choose to send a 3xx response with the location of to send the traffic. However, that can cause additional unintended traffic on the location destination, especially for web scraping services, search bots, or any other automated services. \n In this example we’re looking for host.domain2.com on https. The client resolves the domain to IP 55.16.77.9. We have a wildcard and default LB for domain2.com. In this case, imagine domain2 has been abandoned, or maybe its new and never been put in use. Instead of redirecting via 3xx, we could send a direct response from the F5 Distributed Cloud. This is done via a Direct Response Route, which might say something like “This domain is not in use.”. You could even include a URL within that direct response. By including the URL vs 3xx redirects, you force a human to take action to click the link to continue to a default page. \n \n Summary: \n F5 Distributed Cloud provides you the tooling to be creative with solutions that best fit your organization. I had set out to help better educate on the functions and capabilities of listening logic on F5 Distributed Cloud. I hope you’ve found this helpful and gave you some ideas of how you can use listener logic, multiple IPs, and creative routing to better satisfy both your organization, and your customer’s needs. \n If you have questions, please post below. Also be sure to visit additional content on DevCentral at the links below. \n Next, I want to learn more about: \n \n \n Link - Regional Edges, Advertise-Policies, & Virtual Sites \n Link - Regional Edges & Origin Health Monitors \n Link - Customer Edges (CEs) Deployment & Attachment models \n 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The result is a true multi-cloud architecture, with components deployed on Microsoft Azure and Amazon AWS. You can use the provided scripts in the GitHub repositories to deploy the required WooCommerce sample app, and other components representative of a traditional 3-tier app architecture (backend + database + frontend). \n \n These services will be deployed and managed with F5 Distributed Cloud Services; you can easily deliver, secure, and operate a distributed app model that spans across: \n \n Retail Branch (AppStack on a private cloud) \n Customer Edge (CE) public cloud \n Regional Edge (RE) \n \n Once deployed, the guide goes through the key use cases for this distributed app architecture via several modules, all based on the fictitious scenario of a traditional 3-tier app: BuyTime Commerce built on WooCommerce (powered by WordPress + MySQL) and used in both a branch environment and an online eCommerce deployment. For simplicity, this scenario re-uses the standard WooCommerce datasets for a clothes shop. \n The App Stack deployment of BuyTime Retail Branch Kiosk provides recommendations and processes orders for in-store shoppers. The key requirements for this scenario are ease of deployment and configuration of the Retail Branch Kiosks, as well as the ability to quickly and securely connect to other services, including the recommendation engine service that runs in each branch and the central inventory database that runs in the public cloud. \n The CE deployment of the online .com site provides typical eCommerce capabilities and is augmented with modern online promotion features. The key requirements for a quick response time for time- and latency-sensitive online promotions, similar to Amazon’s Lighting Deals, as well as high security for both in-branch and online eCommerce operations. \n The modules below lay out a framework for connecting and managing distributed app services for this scenario, with a focus on the three core use cases. \n MODULE 1: Distributed Cloud App Stack \n F5 Distributed Cloud Services (xC) enable a consistent deployment, management, and security model for applications, regardless of where they are run. In this scenario, a fictitious branch location will roll out a 3-tier kiosk app with BuyTime app (WooCommerce front-end/back-end with its data stored in MariaDB). In addition, a TCP Load Balancer will be used to connect to a local recommendations service. This topology can run in multiple Retail Branches with identical configuration, management, and security policies applied. \n MODULE 2: Customer Edge (CE) Deployment \n Using F5 Distributed Cloud Multi-Cloud Networking (MCN) and TCP Load Balancer to securely connect and synchronize branch databases with the central inventory and order databases deployed in the public cloud on the Customer Edge (CE). By using the TCP Load Balancer, the retail branch inventory and order data is always synchronized and up-to-date. Furthermore, a slightly modified version of the WooCommerce app deployed in a CE can serve as the main eCommerce application for online shoppers and could be further enhanced by using High Availability configuration with multiple Availability Zones and/or virtual sites across multiple cloud providers. \n MODULE 3: Regional Edge (RE) Deployment \n In this module, the Regional Edge is used with an HTTP Load Balancer to enhance eCommerce capabilities with time- and latency-sensitive promotional capabilities. By making some minor changes to the 3-tier e-Commerce app, it can be enhanced to deliver promotional deals to end users in different regions with a set of low-latency optimized services similar to Amazon's Lightning Deals. \n In summary, this demo guide explores the use cases of the F5 Distributed Cloud platform (xC) through modules that cover a multi-cloud architecture using Microsoft Azure and Amazon AWS. 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as Code: Automating F5 Distributed Cloud CEs with Ansible","conversation":{"__ref":"Conversation:conversation:328672"},"id":"message:328672","revisionNum":4,"uid":328672,"depth":0,"board":{"__ref":"Tkb:board:TechnicalArticles"},"author":{"__ref":"User:user:195328"},"teaser@stripHtml({\"removeProcessingText\":true,\"truncateLength\":-1})":"","introduction":"","metrics":{"__typename":"MessageMetrics","views":647},"postTime":"2024-03-22T12:34:52.234-07:00","lastPublishTime":"2024-03-22T12:34:52.234-07:00","body@stripHtml({\"removeProcessingText\":true,\"removeSpoilerMarkup\":true,\"removeTocMarkup\":true,\"truncateLength\":-1})":" Introduction \n Welcome to the first installment of our Infrastructure as Code (IaC) series, focusing on F5 products and Ansible. This series has been a long-standing desire of mine to showcase the ability of IaC utilizing Ansible Automation Platform to deliver Day 0 through Day 2 operations with multiple F5 virtualized platforms. \n Over time, I've encountered numerous financial clients expressing interest in this topic. For many of these clients, the prospect of leveraging IaC to redeploy an environment outweighs the traditional approach of performing upgrades. This series will hopefully provide insight, documentation, and code for anyone embarking on this journey. \n \n Why Ansible Automation Platform? \n Like most people, I started my journey with community editions of Ansible. As my coding became more complex, so did the need to ensure that my lab infrastructure adhered to the best security guidelines required by my company (my goal being to mimic how customers would/should do things in real life). I began utilizing Ansible Automation Platform to ensure my credentials were protected, as well as to organize and share my code with the rest of my team (following the 'just in case you got hit by a bus' theory). \n Ansible Automation Platform utilizes execution environments (EE) to ensure code runs efficiently and cleanly every time. Now, I am also creating Execution Environments via GitHub with workflows and pushing them up to Quay.io (https://github.com/VDI-Tech-Guy/f5-execution-engines). Huge thanks to Colin McNaughton at Red Hat for making my life so much easier with building EEs! \n \n Why deploy F5 Distributed Cloud on VMware vSphere? \n As I mentioned before, I had this desire to build this Infrastructure as Code (IaC) code a while back. This was prior to the Broadcom acquisition of VMware. Being an ex-VMware employee, I had a lot of knowledge of virtualization platform infrastructure going into this project, and I started my focus on deploying on VMware vSphere. \n F5 Distributed Cloud can be deployed in any cloud, anywhere. However, I really wanted to focus on on-premises deployments because not every customer can afford the cloud. Moreover, there's always a back-and-forth battle between on-premises and the cloud, which has evolved into the Hybrid Cloud and the Multi-Cloud. \n I do intend to extend this series to the Multi-Cloud, but these initial deployments will be focused on VMware vSphere, as it is still utilized in many organizations across the globe. \n Information about the Setup in the Demo Video \n If you watch the video (down below) on how the deployment works, you can see i did a bunch of the pre-work prior to launching the deployment, in the git repostory (link in Resources). \n Here are some Prework items i did \n \n Had a fully functional Ansible Automation Platform 2.4+ enviornment setup and working. (at the time the controller version was 4.4.4) \n Execution Environment was imported into Ansible Automation Platform Controller \n \n \n The Project was setup to import the Playbooks from the Git Repository (In Resources Section below) and setup the Default Execution Environment \n Demo Inventory was setup (in our usecase we only needed the vCenter Host) \n We Setup Network Credentials for the vCenter \n The Template was setup and had Variables populated in it (Note the API Key was hidden). \n As mentioned in the Video (Below) The variables were populated to my environment, this contains all the information, i have provided a Demo Example in the git repository for anyone to mimic my settings to their environment, also the example has comments about each field or area of a field and the purpose of the variable. {\n \"rhel_location\": \"https://vesio.blob.core.windows.net/releases/rhel/9/x86_64/images/vmware/rhel-9.2023.29-20231212012955-single-nic.ova\",\n \"xc_api_credential\": \"_____________________________________\",\n \"xc_namespace\": \"mmabis-automation\",\n \"xc_console_host\": \"f5-bd\",\n \"xc_user\": \"admin\",\n \"xc_pass\": \"Ansible123!\",\n \"vcenter_hostname\": \"{{ ansible_host }}\",\n \"vcenter_username\": \"{{ ansible_env.ANSIBLE_NET_USERNAME }}\",\n \"vcenter_password\": \"{{ ansible_env.ANSIBLE_NET_PASSWORD }}\",\n \"vcenter_validate_certs\": false,\n \"datacenter_name\": \"Apex\",\n \"cluster_name\": \"Worlds-Edge\",\n \"datastore\": \"TrueNAS-SSD\",\n \"dvs_switch_name\": \"DSC-DVS\",\n \"dns_name_servers\": [\n \"192.168.192.20\",\n \"192.168.192.1\"\n ],\n \"dns_name_search\": [\n \"dsc-services.local\",\n \"localdomain\"\n ],\n \"ntp_servers\": [\n \"0.pool.ntp.org\",\n \"1.pool.ntp.org\",\n \"2.pool.ntp.org\"\n ],\n \"domain_fqdn\": \"dsc-services.local\",\n \"DVS_Name\": \"{{dvs_switch_name}}\",\n \"Internal_Network\": \"DVS-Server-vLan\",\n \"External_Network\": \"DVS-DMZ-vLan\",\n \"resource_pool_name\": \"Lab-XC\",\n \"waiting_period\": 2,\n \"temp_download_location\": \"/tmp/xc-ova-download.ova\",\n \"xc_ova_builds\": [\n {\n \"hostname\": \"xc-automation-rhel-demo\",\n \"tmpl_name\": \"xc-automation-rhel-demo\",\n \"admin_password\": \"Ansible123!\",\n \"cluster_name\": \"xc-automation-cluster-rhel-demo\",\n \"dhcp\": \"no\",\n \"external_ip\": \"172.16.192.170\",\n \"external_ip_subnet_prefix\": \"24\",\n \"external_ip_gw\": \"172.16.192.1\",\n \"external_ip_route\": \"0.0.0.0/0\",\n \"internal_ip\": \"192.168.192.170\",\n \"internal_ip_subnet_prefix\": \"22\",\n \"internal_ip_gw\": \"192.168.192.1\",\n \"certified_hw\": \"vmware-regular-nic-voltmesh\",\n \"latitude\": \"39.51833126\",\n \"longitude\": \"-104.759496962\",\n \"build_count\": 3,\n \"nic_config\": \"rhel-multi\"\n }\n ]\n} \n \n Launching the Code \n With all of that prework Handled it was as easy as launch the code, there were a few caviats i learned over time when dealing with the atuomation that i wanted to share. \n \n Never re-use a cluster name in F5 Distributed Cloud, especially if it was used in a different version of the CE (there were communications issues with the CEs and previous cluster information that was stored in F5 Distributred Cloud Console) \n The Api Credentials are system level when trying to accept registration or create the token for importing in to the environment. This code is designed to check for \"{{ xc-namespace}}-token\" if it exists then it will utilize the existing token, if not it will try to create it so you need system level permissions to do this. \n Build Count should be 3 by default (still needs to be defined) or an ODD number based on recomendations i have heard from our F5 Field. \n \n If there are more that i think of ill definatly edit the post and make sure its up-to-date. When launching the code i was able to get the lab to build up correctly multiple times, so please if there is an issue or something i might not have documented well, feel free to let me know and give it a shot for yourself! \n \n YouTube Video now on DevCentral Channel \n \n Resources \n \n \n https://github.com/f5devcentral/f5-bd-ansible-day0-automation - The Code utilized for this deployment \n https://github.com/VDI-Tech-Guy/f5-execution-engines - Building Execution Environments with Github and Workflows \n \n Conclusion \n I do hope that this series will help everyone who wants to embrace IaC and if you have any questions feel free to reach out! 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Manual and automation workflows show how to make this NetOps and DevOps task come to life. ","introduction":"","metrics":{"__typename":"MessageMetrics","views":330},"postTime":"2024-03-29T05:00:00.011-07:00","lastPublishTime":"2025-02-19T11:48:27.548-08:00","body@stripHtml({\"removeProcessingText\":true,\"removeSpoilerMarkup\":true,\"removeTocMarkup\":true,\"truncateLength\":-1})":" Introduction \n Secure Multicloud Networking (MCN) is an approach for connecting applications across different cloud providers that emphasizes security to create a robust, scalable, and cost-effective infrastructure. With an increase in complexity and the potential for security risks due to disparate security measures, businesses face the challenge of maintaining a secure and uniform environment across multiple clouds. \n By using F5 Distributed Cloud services (XC), customers can gain consistency and greatly simplified approach to configuring the networking and security services via a single centralized SaaS Console or API automation. \n This article is the second in a series that shows how an App Delivery Fabric can be quickly implemented by connecting F5 Customer Edge (CE) sites deployed in different public clouds and then configured to use a consistent Web App & API Protection (WAAP) policy to all application services via a centralized console. \n Scenario \n A common task for businesses is the need to connect one app to another or integrate app services that may be running in different environments. A customer may have different developer teams or lines of business that target different cloud providers, or onboard new apps or services or extend an existing app with new services, all of which necessitate a secure connection between different clouds. \n \n \n In this scenario a customer has a core application (represented by a Product Page) running on AWS and a separate app microservice (represented by Product Detail) deployed on Azure. This guide focuses on establishing secure app-to-app Multicloud Networking (MCN) connectivity between these two environments by way of XC CE running on each cloud. \n First, the guide below in GitHub walks through deploying XC CE instances in multiple clouds, including setting up app infrastructure and services. Second, the steps for configuring Load Balancers (LBs), advertising options, and Web Application Firewall (WAF) settings ensures secure networking for completing the app delivery fabric. \n The key takeaway is the efficiency and speed of MCN connectivity, enabling seamless communication between apps, regardless of their runtime location, all managed through the unified solution provided by F5 Distributed Cloud. \n \n \n App Delivery Fabric (Secure Multicloud Networking) - GitHub \n \n \n Conclusion \n F5 Distributed Cloud serves as the central solution for managing MCN and security across diverse cloud environments. Whether your apps run in AWS, Azure, or other public clouds, the F5 Customer Edge deployments enable rapid configuration of multicloud networking, and secure connectivity of applications with consistent policies. 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