Intro_F5_Automation

Introduction

This repository contains a group of labs that will introduce basic Ansible concepts. These labs will introduce these concepts and apply them to typical F5 tasks such as creating nodes, pools and virtual servers.

Ansible utilizes the YAML markup language. YAML uses spaces for indentation.

Released F5 Ansible module documentation can be here.

Some useful links

YAML lint - Validate your YAML YAML Tutorial

Lab1 - Creating a node

Lab2 - Internal variables

The user will utilize variables defined with-in the playbook to be used with bigip_node ansible module. This lab will delete a node based on the state

Lab3 - Loops

Utilize with_items to create an item with multiple input items. In this lab we will utilize with_items to add multiple nodes with-in a single task.

Lab4 - Vault

Ansible Vault is an ansible feature that allows sensitive data such as user credentials to be encrypted. Variables can be encrypted in place and decryption will happen at runtime. The vault password can be passed as an argument

Lab 5 - Creating an application stack

This lab will utilize the bigip_node, bigip_pool, bigip_pool_members, bigip_irule and bigip_virtual_server modules.

Lab 6 - Creating application stack using declarative iApp interface