As government and education organizations continue to embrace modern application development processes, we are seeing an increased demand for NGINX expertise and experience in new job openings. As a result, we are offering a new NGINX accreditation series.
Participants joined F5 & NGINX for a training focused on helping organizations protect their applications with a Web Application Firewall (WAF). Specifically, leverage NGINX App Protect (NAP) to protect applications while supporting the industry-wide shift towards modern application development processes (containers, Kubernetes, micro-services, DevOps, and DevSecOps).
NGINX App Protect delivers the best-in-class WAF capabilities you have come to expect from BIG-IP products while being agile enough to be leveraged in modern application architectures. Learn how to deploy NAP as a standalone ADC, a container as an Ingress Controller, or even as part of your API Gateway capabilities.
During the hands-on lab, we covered various NGINX Plus concepts with a focus on NGINX App Protect functionality. In this course, attendees learned how to do the following:
- Deploy modern applications with modern tools
- Install NGINX Plus
- Run NGINX in a container
- Install and configure NGINX App Protect (NAP)
- Protect an application with NAP and in a Docker container
- Protect an application with NAP and in a Kubernetes Ingress Controller
- Send sample malicious traffic to simulate web attacks