F5-Node-Initiator Chef Cookbook

I don't know exactly where it is but...

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:li3CfMpdnC4J:https://devcentral.f5.com/articles/automating-web-app-deployments-with-opscode-chef-and-icontrol+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=es.

I hope this help ;)

I'm able to reach the article but not able to actually download the tarball that is in the example. I'm hoping to get that tarball which contains the chef cookbook.

I've started work on a more up to date LWRP for the F5 pools and vips. If there are some Chef users around, please comment on https://github.com/swalberg/chef-f5/issues/1 with some feedback on how you'd like to see it work.

Update: The cookbook I was talking about above is in the Chef Supermarket and will create a virtual server, pool, and add the current node to the pool. I'm just picking away at various options.

As compared to the recipe that originally spawned this thread this is done as a LWRP. So you'll have a wrapper cookbook that does something like

f5_vip "{node.chef_environment}-myapp" do
  address '1.2.3.4'
  pool "{node.chef_environment}-myapp"
end

f5_pool "{node.chef_environment}-myapp" do
  port '80'
end

And it'll create any missing items and add the host to the pool.

I also created a chef cookbook for managing F5 @ https://supermarket.chef.io/cookbooks/f5-bigip which I was only recently able to publish (but has been a work in progress for a while).

With this you can create a VIP on a load balancer as easy as:

f5_vip 'testing.test.com' do
  f5 'test-f5.test.com'
  nodes ['10.10.10.10', '10.10.10.11']
  pool 'pool_new'
  destination_address '192.168.1.10'
end

This will then dynamically define other LWRPs for creating the necessary nodes, pool and virtual server. Or you can do it more manually with:

f5_ltm_node '10.10.10.10' do
  f5 'f5-test.test.com'
end

f5_ltm_node '10.10.10.11' do
  f5 'f5-test.test.com'
end

f5_ltm_pool 'pool_new' do
  f5 'f5-test.test.com'
  monitors ['https']
  members [
    {
      'name'      => '10.10.10.10',
      'port'      => 443,
      'enabled'   => true
    },
    {
      'name'      => '10.10.10.11',
      'port'      => 443,
      'enabled'   => true
    }
  ]
end

f5_ltm_virtual_server 'testing.test.com' do
  f5 'f5-test.test.com'
  destination_address '192.168.1.10'
  destination_port 443
  default_pool 'pool_new'
end