Part 3: Optional Exercises

In case you managed to complete all the previous labs in record time the following are some unscripted suggestions of what else you can try.

Expose VIP on AWS Site

Instead of using a Regional Edge to expose the frontend service use the External Network of the AWS Site to expose the service. Access the frontend service with the EIP of the F5 Distributed Cloud Mesh node in AWS. (you may need to use curl –resolve …)

Expose frontend in both AWS/UDF

In addition to making the frontend available in an RE/AWS also make it available from UDF (i.e. you will see either AWS/UDF when accessing the frontend).

Expose the VIP in the UDF environment as well and access the service using the F5 Distributed Cloud Mesh node in UDF.

Change the affinity to show both AWS/UDF in each site or prefer the frontend in that site.

Expose backend through routing

Modify the deployment of the frontend in AWS to route directly to the backend in UDF.

This will require modifying the terraform that creates the frontend in AWS or logging into the frontend to modify the running Docker container.