Blog posts on 2017

The Art of Scaling Containers: Discovery

Five Predictions for 2018 You Can Pretty Much Bank On

Lori MacVittie decided to put down in digital ink what the data and technology cycle is showing will be pretty much a given in 2018.

How does a WAF mitigate vulnerabilities?

Security Rule Zero: A Warning about X-Forwarded-For

Open Source Spotlight: F5 Announces It Will Commit More than Code

HTTP Rising: Telemetry, Tracking, and Terror in Container Environs

Cloud Can’t Protect You Against Yourself

Open Source Spotlight: F5 Infrastructure as Code and Multi-Cloud Manageability

Speed and Scale: F5 BIG-IP as Ingress control for Kubernetes

The Risks of Running HTTP are Increasing but Manageable

Whether we like it or not, HTTP is the de facto application transport protocol of the modern age. We use it everywhere. It’s as ubiquitous as IP and TCP, and serves much the same purpose. Its only goa...

The New OSI Network Stack: Containers and Half-Layers

Back in 1983, a group of like-minded folks in the computer and telecom industries got together to create a detailed specification they called the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI).

Open Source Spotlight: OpenStack LBaaS Enhanced Service Definitions

Where does a WAF fit in the data path?

The data path contains multiple insertion points at which a WAF can be deployed. But that doesn’t mean every insertion point is a good idea.

How Container Orchestration Environments Impact Health Monitoring

Dear NetOps: Security Rule Zero Applies to You Too

Okay, NetOps. As you’re getting all automated up and scripting your hearts out, it’s time for a gentle reminder about security. I’m not talking about firewalls and WAF or other security services you m...

F5 BIG-IP Availability on IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions

For most enterprises, the concept of cloud is well in the process of crossing the “chasm” from early adoption to early majority.

Automation: Managing F5 BIG-IP Configurations Using Puppet

Example-driven Insecurity Illustrates Need for WAF

Learning online is big. Especially for those who self-identify as a developer. If you take a peek at Stack Overflow’s annual developer survey...

Solace and F5: Partnering for Better IoT

Making Multi-Cloud Manageable: F5 Application Connector Now Available for Microsoft Azure

Bots are the Bane of Turing Security Test

Open Source Spotlight: Auto Scaling Mesos

Vulnerable Stuff Running in Containers Still Vulnerable Stuff

It has been said – and not just by me – that encrypted malicious code is still malicious code. The encryption does nothing to change that...

Maslow’s Hierarchy of Automation Needs

Realizing Multi-Cloud Consistency with F5 and VMware Cloud on AWS

Treat Your IT Automation Code Like Cattle, Too.

IT has to embrace standardization of the code that makes IT go or risk creating systems that syphon off the financial and efficacy benefits of IT automation. I spent nearly a decade developing softwar...

F5 Container Connector: Now with Ingress Control, Red Hat OpenShift, and Pivotal Cloud Foundry

Programmable Proxies are the Duct Tape of the Internet

Ingress Controllers: New Name, Familiar Function

Cloud Needs Operational Gates–Especially for Security

In January of 2017, the very popular MongoDB suffered what seems to be becoming a fairly predictable tactic for attackers: taking data hostage. Subsequent investigation noted that for the most part, a...