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Preparing your Computer for the NGINX One Console Workshop

Introduction

In order to complete the Lab exercises in this Workshop on your own computer and not use the F5 provided workshop environment, your computer should meet with the following license, hardware, software, and access requirements. If you are unable to meet these basic requirements, you will likely not be able to complete the Labs as written. It is highly recommended that you have the minimum requirements.

Learning Objectives

By the end of this Prerequisite instructions, you will be ready to do the Workshop lab exercises in your own system.

NGINX Plus License Requirements

  1. You must have an NGINX Plus Commercial license/subscription for this Workshop.
  2. You must download the nginx-repo.crt and nginx-repo.key and nginx-repo.jwt files from your MyF5 account.
  3. If you do not have a current license, you can request a 30-Day Trial License for free, here: https://www.f5.com/trials/nginx-one . It takes several minutes for the F5 Licensing system to send you an email, with a one-time download link to the License files. Save the nginx-repo.* files to your local storage, you will need them before you start the Workshop.

F5 Distributed Cloud Account Requirements

You will need an F5 Distributed Cloud account to complete the Nginx One Console lab exercises. If you do not have an Account, please contact your F5 Sales Representative for more information. Know more about F5 Distributed Cloud by navigating to the following link: https://www.f5.com/products/distributed-cloud-services/distributed-cloud-console.

You must also have enabled NGINX One service within F5 Distributed Cloud(XC) for this workshop.

Hardware Requirments

  1. 8GB available RAM
  2. 50GB available disk space
  3. Recommended - second monitor

Software Requirements

  1. Git
  2. Docker Engine
  3. Docker Compose
  4. Chrome or other modern browser
  5. Visual Studio Code, or other test/code editor
  6. Thunder Client VSCode extension or any other API platform that helps running API requests.

Administrative Requirements

  1. Network connection to the Internet
  2. Admin access to install software, Copy and Edit local files
  3. Admin access to control Network Firewalls and VPN settings
  4. Admin access to configure local DNS hosts file

Install Docker Engine

Install Docker Compose

Optional - Install Visual Studio Code

Cloning the Workshop Repository locally

Once you have setup your system make sure to clone this repository locally in your system.

git clone https://github.com/nginxinc/nginx-one-workshops.git

You are now prepared to start with the workshop labs.

References:


Authors

  • Chris Akker - Solutions Architect - Community and Alliances @ F5, Inc.
  • Shouvik Dutta - Solutions Architect - Community and Alliances @ F5, Inc.
  • Adam Currier - Solutions Architect - Community and Alliances @ F5, Inc.

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