Welcome¶

Welcome to F5’s Service Provider AVR and Big Data hands on training series. The intended audience for these labs are Service Provider engineers that would like to leverage the power of F5 data visibility and integrate this immense data capability into open source tools such as Elasticsearch, Hadoop and others.

Getting Started¶

Please follow the instructions provided by this documentation to start your lab and access your lab.

Prerequisites¶

In order to complete this series of training classes you will need to utilize the provided blueprint for the course session. To access the UDF sessions you will need to have the following prerequists met.

• Current Access to UDF
• SSH key of your access machine in UDF
• Windows or MAC ssh client working with UDF

All pre-built environments implement the lab-topology shown below.

Lab Topology¶

The network topology implemented for this lab based on the Service Provider Gi lan path. The focus of the lab is Control Plane programmability and Data Plane elements, so this lab will focus at both parts at different time. The following components have been included in your lab environment:

• 1 x F5 BIG-IP VE (v13.0 HF2)
• 1 x Linux Jumphost (ubuntu 16.04 - mate)
• 2 x Linux Clients (ubuntu 16.04 - mate)
• 1 x Linux Server (ubuntu 16.04)

The following table lists VLANS, IP Addresses and Credentials for all components: