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Nimbostratus

Mar 04, 2018

f5 and ansible

I am fairly new to ansible and only reasonably proficient with f5s (day job is mainly DNS) so please forgive me if this question looks a little basic. I'm trying to manipulate route domains with...

BIG-IP

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Andy_McGrath

Cumulonimbus

Mar 06, 2019

First looks like you have an issue gathering facts, worth setting this to

False

Then I would setup and use a variable as the

provider

make it much easier to read your tasks without the same repeated elements all the time.

I have not testing the following

ansible playbook

file but I think it should do want you need.

---
- name: Add Route Domain ID 1234
  hosts: bigip
  connection: local
  gather_facts: False

  vars:
    f5Provider:
      server: "{{inventory_hostname}}"
      server_port: 443
      user: "brettcarr"
      password: "my password"
      validate_certs: no
      transport: rest

  tasks:
    - name: Create a route domain 
      bigip_routedomain:
        provider: "{{f5Provider}}"
        id: "1234"
        state: "present"
      delegate_to: localhost

Make sure you have ansible version 2.2 or above and the python F5 SDK (