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KernelPanic
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Jan 24, 2018

Ansible F5 bigip_profile_client_ssl unrecognized by Ansible

Hi Dev's I'm automating my app deployments and the play to create a clientssl profile is not working at all. Everything else is working, this module is the only issue, I've tried every mutation and I...
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KernelPanic
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Jan 25, 2018

I found that I could use the URI: module as a workaround, but it fails if the profile exists, so you can only use it once, and there is no state option

  - name: "Create client SSL profile with specific ciphers"
    uri:
      url: "https://{{inventory_hostname}}/mgmt/tm/ltm/profile/client-ssl/"
      method: "POST"
      validate_certs: no
      body_format: "json"
      user: "{{adminuser}}"
      password: "{{adminpass}}"
      body:
name: "{{appnm}}_{{dc}}_{{zone}}_clientssl"
partition: "Common"
cert: "/Common/default.crt"
key: "/Common/default.key"
username: "{{adminuser}}"
password: "{{adminpass}}"

delegate_to: localhost