Objective

This document provides instructions on how to enable the ability to disable advertisement of services on public internet at tenant-level in F5® Distributed Cloud Services. After disabling the advertisement, you can enable advertising at individual namespace-level. For information advertisement concepts, see Advertisement Policy.

Using the instructions provided in this guide, you can raise a support request to turn on disabling of advertisement on public internet tenant-level, selectively enable advertisement at namespace-level, and turn off disabling of advertisement at tenant-level.

Prerequisites

The following prerequisites apply:

A valid Account is required.

Note: If you do not have an account, see Create an Account.

A Load Balancer.

Note: If you do not have a load balancer, see HTTP Load Balancer.

API certificate or API token for API requests.

Note: If you do not have API certificate or tokens, see My Credentials.

Limitations

The following limitations apply:

Turning on and turning off the ability to disable advertisement on public internet at tenant-level is granted through support request only.
Enabling and disabling of advertising on public internet at namespace-level is supported only using APIs.

Tenant-level vs Namespace-level Control

After turning on the ability to disable advertisement at tenant-level, advertisement on public internet for all namespaces is disabled. You can disable advertisement at tenant-level using a support request and then selectively turn on the ability at namespace-level using the UpdateAllowAdvertiseOnPublic API. At namespace-level, the API has the following 3 values you can set:

Default
Enable
Disable

The following table presents the behavior of advertisement for various combinations of tenant-level and namespace-level settings:

Default Disable at Tenant-level	Allow at Namespace-level	Advertise on public
TRUE	Default	No
TRUE	Enable	Yes
TRUE	Disable	No
FALSE	Default	Yes
FALSE	Enable	Yes
FALSE	Disable	No

Disable Advertisement at Tenant-Level

Enabling the ability to disable the advertisement on public internet requires you to raise a support request.

Features can be viewed, and managed in multiple services.

This example shows Disable Advertising setup in Administration.

Step 1: Log into F5® Distributed Cloud Console, raise support request to disable advertising on internet.

Open F5® Distributed Cloud Console homepage, select Administration.

Note: Homepage is role based, and your homepage may look different due to your role customization. Select All Services drop-down menu to discover all options. Customize Settings: Administration > Personal Management > My Account > Edit work domain & skills button > Advanced box > check Work Domain boxes > Save changes button.

Note: Confirm Namespace feature is in correct namespace, drop-down selector located in upper-left corner. Not available in all services.

Select Support in left column menu > Requests.

Note: If options are not showing available, select Show link in Advanced nav options visible in bottom left corner. If needed, select Hide to minimize options from Advanced nav options mode.

Select Add Requests button.

DISABLE7 2 — Figure: Support Add Request

Select Type, select Request in drop-down menu.
Select Topic, select Others in drop-down menu.
Select Priority in drop-down menu.
Enter Short Subject in Please choose a subject for your issue box.
Enter Please explain the problem below in box.
Select Submit request button.

Note: F5 support disables the advertisement on public networks for your tenant and confirms.

Step 2: Verify advertisement on public internet is disabled.

Select F5 logo to open homepage navigation.
Select Load Balancers box.
Select Virtual Hosts in left-menu > HTTP Load Balancers.
Select Add HTTP Load Balancer button.
Enter info requested.

Refer to HTTP Load Balancer guide.

Select Advertise on Internet in VIP Configuration section.
- Toggle Show Advanced Fields to show more Where to Advertise the VIP options in drop-down menu:
- Advertise on Internet: Advertise this loadbalancer on public network with default VIP.
- Advertise on Internet(Specified VIP): Advertise this loadbalancer on public network.
  - Select Public IP option in drop-down menu.
- Advertise Custom: Advertise this loadbalancer on specific sites.
  - Select Configure in Advertise Custom box > Toggle Show Advanced Fields > Select + Add Item button > Enter info > Select Add Item button > Select Apply button.
- Do Not Advertise: Do not advertise this loadbalancer.
Select Save and Exit button.

Result: An error is returned mentioning that advertisement on public internet is not allowed.

DISABLE VIPCONFIGURATION7 6 — Figure: Advertise on Internet

Enable Advertisement at Namespace-Level

Perform the following steps:

Step 1: Enable advertisement on public network at namespace-level.

Go to CLI and enter the following command:

curl -k  -X POST --cert-type P12 --cert ~/Downloads/<api-creds>.p12:<password> https://<tenant>.console.ves.volterra.io/api/web/namespaces/<namespace>/update_allow_advertise_on_public

Note: Replace <api-creds> with your API certificate file name and with the namespace name for which you want to enable advertising on public internet. Replace <password> with the password for your API certificate.

Step 2: Verify that advertisement on public internet at namespace-level is allowed.

Select F5 logo to open homepage navigation to open F5® Distributed Cloud Console homepage.
Select Load Balancers box.
Select Virtual Hosts in left-menu > HTTP Load Balancers.
Select Add HTTP Load Balancer button.
Perform configuration as per the instructions mentioned in the HTTP Load Balancer guide.
Ensure that Advertise on Internet is selected for the Where to Advertise the VIP field in VIP configuration section.
Select Save and Exit.

Result: The load balancer is created successfully and requests to the configured domain over internet are successful.

DISABLE VIPCONF ADVERTISE 7 8 — Figure: Advertise on Internet

Disable Advertising on Public Network

On This Page: