Is Autoscaling possible with F5?

Hi rajashree,

 

you could either use an external system / tool / script to setup/remove pool members via BIG-IP REST API or you could implement a local iCall script which fetches pool member information from an external system (e.g. a simple config file) and then changes the configuration as needed.

 

BIG-IP REST-API ressources:

 

https://devcentral.f5.com/icontrolrest

 

iCall ressources:

 

https://devcentral.f5.com/icall

 

Note: On the last F5-Agility I even get into touch with a guy which has extended his BIG-IP to listen to a private Slack channel. If he post some JSON snippets into his channel the F5 will listen to it and implement the JSON embedded configuration changes and then post the result into the channel. So only sky is the limit when it comes to BIG-IP automation... ;-)

 

Cheers, Kai

 

Hi

You could use F5 API to do this.

You can try the following to add/delete new Pool Member "new_pool_member" to Pool "pool_name"

Add:
curl -sk -u 'admin:admin' -H "Content-Type: application/json" -X POST https://x.x.x.x/mgmt/tm/ltm/pool/pool_name/members -d '{"name":"new_pool_member:80", "address":"1.1.1.1", "partition":"Common"}'

Delete:
curl -sk -u 'admin:admin' -H "Content-Type: application/json" -X DELETE https://x.x.x.x/mgmt/tm/ltm/pool/pool_name/members/~Common~new_pool_member -d '{"name":"new_pool_member:80", "address":"1.1.1.1"}'

Waiting for you feedback

Regards