Administering Applications in F5 Distributed Cloud Services

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Key Info

COURSE ID:

F5-TRG-F5XC

PRODUCT FAMILY:

Distributed Cloud

TITLE:

Administering Applications in F5 Distributed Cloud Services

COURSE LEVEL:

Core

MODALITY:

Instructor-Led Training (ILT)

LENGTH (DAYS/HOUR):

2 Days

LANGUAGES:

English

PRICE ($$/TU):

$2640 USD/44 TUs

CONTAINS HANDS-ON LABS?:

Yes

SDT details

ILT details

Learn how to deploy, secure, and manage applications wherever they are needed: in a data center, in a public or private cloud, on-premises or at the network or enterprise edge using F5 Distributed Cloud Services (F5XC). Explore the full range of F5XC capabilities for distributed application management, including load balancing.


Practice navigating the F5XC portal. Discover, access, and secure an application on the internet. Reroute traffic and view request data in event logs. Demonstrate the relationship between tenant and namespace objects. Practice basic kubectl commands, and see how F5XC uses Kubernetes functionality.

Chapter 1: Introduction
  • Resources
  • Accessing the Training Environment
    • Chapter 2: Overview to F5 Distributed Cloud Services
  • Move to the Cloud
  • The Edge
  • F5XC as a Solution
  • F5XC Components
  • F5XC Core Objects - Edges - Regional Edge (RE) - Customer Edge (CE)
  • Joining REs and CEs
  • Splitting and Stretching the ADC
  • Global Connectivity - PoPs
  • Connecting the Datacenter
  • Connecting the Private Cloud
  • Connecting the Public Cloud
  • Connecting Components in Different Locations
  • Primary F5XC Deployment Types - SaaS Edge, SaaS Hybrid Customer, and SaaS Hybrid Global
    • Chapter 3: Site and Infrastructure Management - Part 1
  • Tenants
  • Namespaces
  • Multi-Tenancy
  • Key Pairs, Labels, Known Keys, and Selectors
  • Virtual Sites
  • Creating a Cloud site - CE Deployment
    • Chapter 4: Site and Infrastructure Management - Part 2
  • Creating and Sending Alerts
  • Viewing Site Status
    • Chapter 5: Site and Infrastructure Management - Part 3
  • Load Balancing and Origin Pools
  • Origin Servers
  • Anycast, Routers, BGP, DNS, and F5XC
  • Load Balancers and VIPs
  • VIP Advertisement
  • Traffic Flows
    • Chapter 6: F5XC and Kubernetes
  • Monolithic versus Containerized Applications Solutions
  • Kubernetes Overview - Pods, Nodes, Services, Clusters
  • Kubernetes in F5XC
  • Leveraging Kubernetes using the F5XC Virtual K8s
    • Chapter 7: Exploring Virtual Kubernetes
  • Creating vK8s on F5XC
  • Exploring Basic Kubernetes Commands
    • Chapter 8: Exploring Application Deployment - Part 1
  • Creating Origin Pool and Health Check for HTTP(s) Load Balancer
  • Creating HTTP Load Balancer and View Application
  • Activating WAF
  • Creating Routing Configuration
    • Chapter 9: F5XC DNS
  • Delegated DNS
  • Primary DNS
  • Secondary DNS
  • DNS Load Balancers
    • Chapter 10: F5 Distributed Cloud Mesh and App Stack
  • Services vs Service Mesh
  • Components of Service Mesh
  • F5XC Cloud Mesh
  • Mesh vs App Stack
  • App Stack and Mesh Working Together
    • Chapter 11: Exploring Application Deployment - Part 2
  • Deployments
  • Workloads
  • Terraform
  • Deploying an Application using a vK8s Workload
  • Deploying To Multiple Sites using a vK8s Workload
  • Image location, direct and registry
  • Automation with Terraform
    • Chapter 12: F5XC Console Dashboards
  • Viewing Data in Distributed Cloud Dashboards
  • Removing F5XC Configurations

    • Prior Knowledge

    There are no prerequisites before attending this course, but the following knowledge is helpful:

  • Experience with any cloud provider
  • Basic networking skills including a basic understanding of routing, firewalls (application and network layer), proxies and load balancers
  • Basic understanding of Kubernetes, pods, and containerization concepts


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    Please find below the current active sessions for the ILT. If there are no sessions listed below and you would like to register your interest in attending the ILT version of this course please email: support@mail.education.f5.com

    Administering Applications in F5 Distributed Cloud Services - US Virtual (Feb 17, 2026): View ILT

    Administering Applications in F5 Distributed Cloud Services - US Virtual (May 6, 2026): View ILT

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