Introduction

The recipes so far have been without context, so it will be nice to be able to see a "proper" environment, supplying a service (of some description).

While this chapter will cover the same content as the earlier recipes, we will be putting everything into a more realistic scenario and will be able to see how everything comes together, and we will look at the problems that come in the course of this process.

Background

ACME Corp has two distinct departments, finance and marketing. The finance team hosts a web application that enables the marketing department to keep track of their budget and update it accordingly.

Due to security requirements, the two departments are separated by an ASA firewall: 

Before you start...

To make things cleaner, I have reset the ACI appliance. This has removed the tenancies already created to make the recipe easier to read, and it will make the code at the end much more succinct.

Some parts have already been set up:

• The ASA package has already been imported...