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kumar10
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9 months ago
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Automate F5OS license activation using ansible

Hello, working to automate the process of licensing the F5OS platform (r-series) using ansible but with the version we have in our production we cannot use F5OS ansible galaxy modules so we are us...
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    kumar10
    9 months ago

    Thank you for your replies. I was able to achieve this using ansible shell module. below task gets the activated dossier from "https://activate.f5.com/license/license.do" via proxy "http://proxyurl.com:80" and saves to local path.


    - name: set license file path fact
      set_fact:
        license_file: "/localpath/{{ inventory_hostname }}_license.txt"

    - name: Activate License from F5 and extract license block
      shell: |
        curl -x http://proxyurl.com:80 -X POST \
          -F "dossier={{ dossier }}" -F "submit=Next" -s -k \
          https://activate.f5.com/license/license.do | \
        sed -n '/<textarea[^>]*name="license"[^>]*>/,/<\/textarea>/p' | \
        sed '1d;$d' | \
        sed 's/&quot;/"/g' > {{ license_file }}
      register: f5os_license
      delegate_to: localhost

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Melissa_C
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9 months ago

Hello kumar10​,

We have a community member who was working on Automating F5 Licensing - without direct internet access that is technically for BIG-IP VE, however, I would suggest taking a look at it to see if it would help you in any way. If it doesn't help or leaves gaps, you would comment under that article to see if they have worked with automating for the F5OS r-series. 

Also, if you have any update on your path to automating the license for your F5OS please add them to your post for you and future user to reference. 

-Melissa