bigpipe script to create pools/virtual servers

For bigpipe format, you can check an existing object in the bigip.conf or bigip_base.conf. As Jason pointed out a while ago, you can escape the new lines using single quotes. So if the virtual server looks like this in the bigip.conf:

virtual www.example.com_http_vs {
   snat automap
   pool ubuntu_external_http_pool
   destination 10.1.0.15:80
   ip protocol tcp
   rules vs_name_to_redirect_rule
   profiles {
      http {}
      tcp {}
   }
}

you can use this to create it:

 
 b virtual www.example.com_http_vs '{ 
    snat automap 
    pool ubuntu_external_http_pool 
    destination 10.1.0.15:80 
    ip protocol tcp 
    rules vs_name_to_redirect_rule 
    profiles { 
       http {} 
       tcp {} 
    } 
 }' 
 

Note the single quotes before the first curly brace and after the last curly brace.

Aaron