Avi Networks

Background

Avi is an enterprise load balancer for multi-cloud environments and various use cases. Avi was acquired by VMware in 2019 and has grown considerably since the early days when I first started using it. Recently in 2023, VMware was acquired by Broadcom.
I’ve been in the load balancing space most of my professional career, and am very familiar with Avi, F5, and NetScaler offerings.
Avi is also known as the following: NSX-ALB, NSX Advanced Load Balancer, Avi Networks, Avi. For simplicity, I’ll just refer to it as Avi.

The goal of this section is really just to provide some friendly tutorials and potentially use case guides on various topics.

Use Case Guides

RBAC

• Setup users and assign custom roles
• Advanced RBAC settings – Labels and Filters

Ecosystem

• Configure Avi for vCenter integration
• Configure Avi for NSX-T integration

Automation

• ANSIBLE – Apply default settings to all Avi controllers
• ANSIBLE – Deploy an Application
• AWX
  • Install AWX on Ubuntu
  • Deploy an Application in Avi with Self-Service using AWX

API

• API Filters & Parameters

Web Application Firewall (WAF)

• Secure your application with the Avi Web Application Firewall (WAF)

Analytics

• Integrate Avi metrics into Dynatrace