F5 LTM (Local Traffic Manager) is a load balancer that distributes client traffic across multiple backend servers to improve availability and performance. In this lab, we configure the F5 BIG-IP wi...

Cisco ThousandEyes is a synthetic monitoring platform that acts as a fleet of automated users, giving us hop-by-hop visibility into local network routing, global internet paths, and application per...

Cisco Security Cloud Control (SCC), formerly Cisco Defense Orchestrator (CDO) is a centralized, cloud-based SaaS platform designed to unify the policy management and monitoring of various Cisco sec...

LM Studio enables local execution of large language models with a simple and efficient runtime environment. In this lab, we deploy Gemma 4 on a headless Linux server to provide high-performance, se...

Alibaba Cloud ALB distributes incoming internet traffic across multiple backend servers to ensure high availability. When integrated with WAF, it filters and protects traffic (e.g., rate limiting, ...

Alibaba Cloud VPN Gateway is a managed service that enables secure, encrypted connections between our VPC and on-premises environments using the IPsec protocol. In this lab, we established a Route-...

Cloud Enterprise Network (CEN) is a high-performance networking service that provides scale-out connectivity to Alibaba Cloud’s global backbone. At the heart of this architecture is the Transit Rou...

Alibaba Cloud is a comprehensive cloud computing platform provided by Alibaba Group that offers a wide range of services, including elastic compute, storage, networking, security, and artificial in...

Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure Active Directory) is a cloud-native identity platform that synchronizes with on-premises ADDS via Entra Connect to create a seamless hybrid identity layer. By int...

Azure Application Gateway is a Layer 7 (HTTP/HTTPS) load balancer that sits at the front of our application, accepts internet traffic on a public IP, and routes it to backend servers based on liste...