Background As a network guy, network automation has always been my favourite topic. I needed to build an NSX-T environment to validate a specific function from time to time. When I got an NSX-T config, I used a straightforward Python script that makes the NSX-T API calls to import the config into a new lab …
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With the release of PowerCLI 10.0.0, VMware adds support for Mac OS and Linux! Now you can install PowerCLI and PowerNSX on Linux System including RHEL, Centos, Unbuntu and Mac OS. To complete installation of VMware PowerCLI 10 and PowerNSX, firstly you need to install Powershell Core 6.0. In most of enterprise environments, we won't …
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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 …
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 …
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 …
You need the following packages installed so that the Paramiko module installation can be completed successfully: yum install python-devel yum install libffi-devel yum install -y openssl-devel [root@localhost python2.7]# pip install paramiko Collecting paramiko Using cached paramiko-2.0.2-py2.py3-none-any.whl Collecting cryptography>=1.1 (from paramiko) Using cached cryptography-1.5.tar.gz Requirement already satisfied (use --upgrade to upgrade): pyasn1>=0.1.7 in ./site-packages (from paramiko) …
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