Avi Networks load balancing platform offers fantastic automation capabilities, which allow us to automate the load balancing service via some popular Infrastructure as Code tools like Ansible and Terraform. Today, I will demonstrate the Day 1 automation using Ansible (version 2.8.5) in this blog. [root@code1 ~]# ansible --version ansible 2.8.5 config file = /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg configured …
Category: Ansible
New Ansible F5 HTTPs Health Monitor Module
Just got time this weekend to test the newly released dev version of Ansible F5 HTTPs health monitor. The result of testing looks good: most of common use cases have been covered properly. Below is my first playbook for my testing: After run the playbook, I log in my F5 BIGIP VE and see the …
Automate F5 GSLB with Ansible
F5 BIG-IP Global Traffic Manager (GTM) provides tiered global server load balancing (GSLB). BIG-IP GTM distributes DNS name resolution requests, first to the best available pool in a wide IP, and then to the best available virtual server within that pool. GTM selects the best available resource using either a static or a dynamic load …
Automate F5 LTM with Ansible
Ansible has included F5 as extra network module, which can help to provide LBaaS by use of Infrastructure as Code method. Like normal Ansible modules, Ansible F5 module is installed the /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible/modules/extras/network directory. [dzhang@localhost network]$ pwd /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible/modules/extras/network [dzhang@localhost network]$ ls -al total 512 drwxr-xr-x. 9 root root 4096 Jan 30 03:17 . drwxr-xr-x. 20 root root …
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