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Varnish Basics 2 min
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Edge Security Service 3 min
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Enabling the Edge Deployment 4 min
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Snippets & the Edge Security subroutine 10 min
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Inspecting Requests with Shielding Enabled 3 min
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Ramping Traffic onto the Edge Deployment 2 min
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Handling Blocked requests with Varnish
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Health Checks 3 min
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Quiz
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Next-Gen WAF: Enabling WAF at the Edge
Walkthrough your first Edge Deployment
Course Details:
Fastly’s Next-Gen WAF is powered by Fastly’s Signal Sciences platform. With this course we’ll walk you through the steps for deploying WAF at the Edge. Since the Edge Deployment links with a Delivery Service, which uses VCL, we’ll walk you through how the Edge Deployment integrates with a Delivery Service.
This course makes reference to a number of VCL concepts and terms. We recommend you review the following courses first if you are not familiar with Shielding & the VCL Subroutines.
- VCL 105: Shielding
- VCL 107: Receive, Fetch, & Deliver Fundamentals
- VCL 108: Hash, Hit, Miss and Pass Subroutines
- VCL 109: Error, Restart and Log
We’ll also discuss how to ramp traffic, control inbound requests using available Varnish functions and data structures (such as ACLs & edge rate limiting), how shielding works, how back-ends are handled, and how to enable Health Checks.
Learning Objectives:
- How does a SigSci site pair with a VCL service?
- What is an Edge Security service?
- Synchronizing VCL backends with the Edge Security service.
- What are Snippets and Dynamic Snippets
- What does the edge_security subroutine do?
- Handling inspection with Shielding enabled.
- Handling inspection with HealthChecks enabled.