iRule Development and F5 Lab Edition
Hi All,
I'm in the process of trying to streamline and standardize our iRule development. We were hoping to use the F5 lab edition to allow each developer to test in isolation. Unfortunately from what I've discovered so far is that the lab edition is actually a virtual machine that would need to be set up and configured for each user. If this is the case it removes all of the benefits I thought we would get from using it.
I guess I have the following questions -
1) Is F5 Lab Edition an image of a virtual server running F5?
2) If the answer to 1 is yes, I take it that device would need to be set up to mimic real environments and be a time consuming process to undertake?
3) Can a snapshot of the virtual be taken to minimize the effort needed to roll out new lab editions for people to use?
4) Is the Lab license tied to the individual user or to the machine instance?
5) Does the more recent versions of iRule help in testing or versioning iRules?
Any help appreciated,
Rgds,
Phil