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Nimbostratus

Sep 10, 2025

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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...

kumar10
Sep 15, 2025
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/"/"/g' > {{ license_file }}
register: f5os_license
delegate_to: localhost

kumar10

Nimbostratus

Sep 15, 2025

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/"/"/g' > {{ license_file }}
register: f5os_license
delegate_to: localhost