Policies

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How to Set Up Policies

Learn how to use F5 NGINX Management Suite API Connectivity Manager to set up policies.

API Access Control Lists

Learn how to protect your upstream TCP application servers by denying/allowing access from certain client IP addresses, CIDR blocks, client IDs or JWT Claims.

Access Control Routing

Learn how to restrict access to your application servers based on JWT claims or header values.

Advanced Security

Learn how to add an F5 NGINX App Protect WAF policy to your environment by using the Advanced Security policy in NGINX Management Suite API Connectivity Manager.

Allowed HTTP Methods

Learn how to block unwelcome requests to an endpoint by using the Allowed HTTP Methods policy in F5 NGINX Management Suite API Connectivity Manager.

API Key Authentication

Learn how to use F5 NGINX Management Suite API Connectivity Manager to secure API Gateways by applying an API key authentication policy.

Basic Authentication

Learn how to use F5 NGINX Management Suite API Connectivity Manager to secure API Gateways by applying a basic authentication policy.

Cluster-Wide Config

Learn how to configure the Cluster-Wide Config settings to fine tune and control proxy cluster's behavior with performance enhancing configurations.

Cluster Zone Sync

Learn how to configure the Cluster Zone Sync policy to enable runtime state sharing between the instances belonging to a proxy cluster.

CORS

Learn how to use F5 NGINX Management Suite API Connectivity Manager to handle Cross-Origin Resource Sharing for your backend services.

Error Response Format

Learn how to use the F5 NGINX Management Suite API Connectivity Manager to configure the Error Response Format policy that customizes HTTP error codes and messages.

gRPC

Learn how to use F5 NGINX Management Suite API Connectivity Manager to configure policies for your gRPC API Gateway.

Health Check

Learn how to create, configure, and implement health check policies for your HTTP and gRPC API Proxies using F5 NGINX Management Suite API Connectivity Manager.

HTTP Backend Configuration

Learn how to use the F5 NGINX Management Suite API Connectivity Manager to manage HTTP API Gateways by applying a backend configuration policy.

Log Format

As an Infrastructure Administrator, use this guide to implement a standard log format for all environments hosting APIs.

Introspection

API Owners can restrict access to their APIs with OAuth2 tokens. The policy is configured to grant access to APIs after having tokens introspected.

JWT Assertion

Learn how to use F5 NGINX Management Suite API Connectivity Manager to secure API Gateways by applying an OAuth2 JSON Web Token (JWT) Assertion policy.

OpenID Connect

As an Infrastructure Administrator, use this guide to configure OpenID Connect policy to enable Single Sign On for the gateways.

Proxy Request Headers

Learn how to use F5 NGINX Management Suite API Connectivity Manager to set request headers to send to your backend services.

Proxy Response Headers

Learn how to use F5 NGINX Management Suite API Connectivity Manager to set response headers to send to your clients.

Request Body Size Limit

Learn how to configure the Request Policy Size Limit policy to prevent Denial of Service (DoS) and other types of attacks.

Rate Limiting

Learn how to use the F5 NGINX Management Suite API Connectivity Manager Rate Limiting policy to protect backend servers. The Rate Limiting policy lets you limit connections and the rate of requests based on request URI, client IP address, or authenticated clients.

Request Correlation ID

Learn how to use API Connectivity Manager's Request Correlation ID policy to add a unique identifier to each request entering your app, which you can use to trace end-to-end transactions in a distributed system.

Request Header Specification

Learn how to set up the Request Header Specification policy in API Connectivity Manager to process headers with invalid characters.

TLS

Learn how to use F5 NGINX Management Suite API Connectivity Manager to secure communications by applying TLS policies.

Proxy Cache

Learn how to use F5 NGINX Management Suite API Connectivity Manager to enable and configure caching to improve the performance of your API gateway proxy.