Become a smart DevOps with a series of F5 webinars. Get a certificate and a cool hoodie!

Webinar details:

1. Wednesday, 30 September, 10:00-11:00 CET / 11:00-12:00 EET (On-demand)
   
   NGINX App Protect - The Modern App Security Solution for DevOps - Antoon Huiskens, Solutions Engineer at F5
   The rise of containerization and microservices are the answer for growing demand for applications. Ensuring application security is becoming more critical than ever before. At this webinar we will show you how to protect your next generation applications. This can be done anywhere and easily by world-class WAF- capabilities with NGINX a new App Protect! Join the webinar to see how easily this can be done.
   
   Antoon Huiskens - Enterprise Solutions Architect at NGINX/F5. He has been working in the IT sector for 20 years and has a strong experience in the application delivery market and software load-balancing. In his day-to-day role, he provides guidance to companies in a pre-sales capacity, helping them to improve velocity, visibility, security, and performance for applications and their delivery. He is passionate about helping companies deliver excellent customer experiences and believe that technology is key to achieve this.
   
   
2. Wednesday, 14 October, 10:00-11:00 CET / 11:00-12:00 EET (On-demand)
   
   Container Security and Visibility - Bart Van Bos, F5 EMEA Solutions Architect at F5
   With applications changing from VM-hosted to microservice-based as hosted in container orchestrators, a new set of concepts and solutions is needed. At this webinar we will cover concepts like Kubernetes Services, Ingress Controllers, and Service Mesh. Join the webinar and familiarize yourself with container security solutions from F5.
   
   Bart Van Bos - F5 EMEA Solutions Architect with a focus on DevOps and Cloud Native topics like Service Mesh. He is actively engaged in DevOps conferences, leads and drives MeetUps.
   
   
3. Wednesday, 21 October, 10:00-11:00 CET / 11:00-12:00 EET (On-demand)
   
   F5 integration with Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform – Grzegorz Kornacki, Solutions Engineer at F5 and Jarosław Stakuń, Principal Solutions Architect at Red Hat
   Red Hat OpenShift Platform is the most popular commercial platform for building and production implementing container applications which includes a complete set of tools for managing their life cycle, both locally and in public and hybrid clouds. F5 is the most frequently used provider of security solutions meeting the standard warranty and ADC. During the webinar, you will learn how to protect the OpenShift environment and applications based on it against attacks on the application, bots, and DDoS attacks from deletion 3 to 7 running on OpenShift. You will see how to integrate F5 with a containerized environment and how to weave a security policy management into a CI/CD process started on OpenShift.
   
   Grzegorz Kornacki – Solutions Engineer at F5. He has been active in the IT industry for more than 18 years now. He helps service providers and telecom operators create and implement added services, security, disaster recovery, as well as broadly understood virtualization and automation. He is a certified specialist in F5 solutions. He is also a promotor of container technologies and CI/CD methodologies. Grzegorz is a speaker at conferences, both in Poland and abroad.
   
   Jarosław Stakuń – Principal Solutions Architect at Red Hat. He is responsible for supporting the sale and implementing solutions based on Red Hat JBoss Middleware technology and Openshift Container Platform for clients from various sectors in the region of CEE. He has many years of experience in the middleware technologies, with emphasis on application servers platforms, systems integration, automation of business processes, security of IT systems, cloud and mobile solutions, and containerization of application environments.
   
   
4. Wednesday, 28 October, 10:00-11:00 CET / 11:00-12:00 EET (On-demand)
   
   Seamless automation of BIG IP with Ansible technology - Grzegorz Kornacki, Solutions Engineer at F5 and Jacek Skórzyński, Senior Solutions Architect at Red Hat
   Ansible Tower is a comprehensive tool to implement, configure, and manage your IT infrastructure . F5 Networks provides security systems protecting internet services against attacks aimed at the application and network layers, DDoS, and malware. F5 also enables the continuity of work, implements Disaster-Recovery scenarios, and protects users’ data from a leak. During this webinar you will learn:
   
   • how to start and configure F5 security systems with the help of Ansible;
   • how to configure data processing scenarios and security policy at the level of Ansible;
   • what Ansible modules are at your disposal;
   • how to create Playbooks to effectively configure and manage F5 solutions.
   
   Grzegorz Kornacki – Solutions Engineer at F5. He has been active in the IT industry for more than 18 years now. He helps service providers and telecom operators create and implement added services, security, disaster recovery, as well as broadly understood virtualization and automation. He is a certified specialist in F5 solutions. He is also a promotor of container technologies and CI/CD methodologies. Grzegorz is a speaker at conferences, both in Poland and abroad.
   
   Jacek Skórzyński – Senior Solutions Architect at Red Hat. He is responsible for supporting the process of infrastructure technology implementation, such as cloud solutions, virtualization, and mass memory systems which are defined programmatically. Earlier he was gaining practical experience by running and implementing server solutions, mass memory systems, cloud technologies, and virtualization platforms.
   
   
5. Wednesday, 4 November, 10:00-11:00 CET / 11:00-12:00 EET (On-demand)
   
   Application migration – securing your workloads in AWS with F5 - Rob Hale, EMEA Cyber Security Partner Segment Lead at Amazon Web Services.
   F5 and AWS partner together to rapidly deploy and secure application workloads without incurring the capital expenditures of new infrastructure. AWS provides the ability to provision and deploy application workloads in the AWS cloud, whereas F5 beyond the basic load balancing, networking, and security services available in AWS enables delivery of advanced and programmable L4–L7 application availability, access and security services consistent with those available in data center or other multi-cloud deployments. Join the webinar and learn about the benefits of migrating or developing apps in the public cloud, while ensuring the highest security standards.
   
   Rob Hale - EMEA Cyber Security Partner Segment Lead at Amazon Web Services. He has over 12 years of experience in the IT and Network Security spaces, encompassing Technical, Sales, Product Management and Business Management roles to director level at Resellers, Distribution and Vendor positions. Rob provides invaluable go-to-market consultancy, sales and channel strategy & leadership to Network & Security Vendors and Channel Partners.
   
   
6. Wednesday, 25 November, 10:00-11:00 CET / 11:00-12:00 EET (On-demand)
   
   GitHub and F5 in the application lifecycle – Grzegorz Kornacki, Solutions Engineer at F5 and Kamil Stachowicz, Cloud Apps & Infrastructure Solutions Specialist at Microsoft
   GitHub is the largest hosting platform for developers’ projects which is used by 37 million users and owns 100 million repositories. During the meeting we will demonstrate the latest functionality, i.e. GitHub Actions in a scenario of building an automatic CI/CD process, as well as in a reaction to changes in the security policy being built on F5 AWAF. Join the webinar and learn how to: implement pipeline CI/CD in GitHub Action, integrate F5 WAF environment with CI/CD and ensure effective collaboration of development and security units.
   
   Grzegorz Kornacki - Solutions Engineer at F5. He has been active in the IT industry for more than 18 years now. He helps service providers and telecom operators create and implement added services, security, disaster recovery, as well as broadly understood virtualization and automation. He is a certified specialist in F5 solutions. He is also a promotor of container technologies and CI/CD methodologies. Grzegorz is a speaker at conferences, both in Poland and abroad.
   
   Kamil Stachowicz - Cloud Apps & Infrastructure Solution Specialist at Microsoft. He is an expert in effective transformation of the IT environment, engaged in helping with modernization of applications, reduction of the infrastructure costs, streamline processes and scale business thanks to the possibilities offered by migration to the cloud. More than 11 years associated with Microsoft technologies. Great technology enthusiast working on the largest cloud implementations.
   
   
7. Wednesday, 9 December, 10:00-11:00 CET / 11:00-12:00 EET
   
   How to automate pipeline with F5 tools? – Anton Gyllenhammar, Solutions Engineer at F5
   We will dive down into different aspects of the automation pipeline and the appropriate tooling from F5 (e.g. F5 Automation Toolchain), how different tools are applicable and how to best utilize principles such as Declarative models, Versioning, and continuous integration. The sessions will be covering all of the automation lifecycle, from bootstrapping to onboarding and configuration. We will also teach how metrics and data can be used to further enhance each iteration and faster respond to new requirements, along with other tools and ways of working that enable collaboration, such as GitHub and Ansible.
   
   Anton Gyllenhammar - Solutions Engineer at F5 for Northeast Europe with a development background. After several years of consulting experience in implementing methods of working like DevOps he build an approach that security and control of application delivery needs to be shared and accessible by multiple stakeholders to scale delivery, accelerate time to market and promote innovation. Embracing the likes of declarative automation, code repositories and continuous integration are keyways of working to achieve this.
   
   
8. Wednesday, 16 December, 10:00-11:00 CET / 11:00-12:00 EET
   
   Publishing and protecting modern applications with NGINX Controller and BIG-IP – Anton Gyllenhammar, Solutions Engineer at F5
   Application management is shifting left, requiring more control and integration close to the applications. Meanwhile, security and compliance are still a priority, requiring multiple persons and areas of expertise to properly deploy and operate applications safely. Join us as we showcase the strengths of the NGINX platform for application delivery and API management along with automated Application security with the Big-IP platform for a cohesive code-to-customer solution.
   
   Anton Gyllenhammar – Solutions Engineer at F5 for Northeast Europe with a development background. After several years of consulting experience in implementing methods of working like DevOps he build an approach that security and control of application delivery needs to be shared and accessible by multiple stakeholders to scale delivery, accelerate time to market and promote innovation. Embracing the likes of declarative automation, code repositories and continuous integration are keyways of working to achieve this.