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Alex_L
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20 days ago
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Managing iRules configuration

Hi everyone,  I was searching on documentation on using Github to deploy iRules as it feels inpractical to manually configured iRules 1 by 1 if you had lets say 35 of them.   I noticed an article ...
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  • Juergen_Mang's avatar
    Juergen_Mang
    19 days ago

    Hi AL,

    I know no open project that does iRule templating.

    GitHub itself is only a code hosting plattform. You must write your own pipeline actions and templating to do this. 

    I myself have production ready iRule templating with CI/CD pipelines implemented for GitLab pipelines. It is also do-able and it works like a charm. I use gpp as template processor as it integrates well with iRule syntax.

    In my dayjob I do a lots of automation for F5 with GitLab. It is a perfect way to automate F5's.

Alex_L's avatar
Alex_L
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20 days ago

Hi Juergen,

 

thank you for your information.

I am doing research on a better way to manage iRules that would be closer to Infrastructure as Code as I would liek for iRules to be created based on a template but also for users to not directly modify it as it promotes a better separation of duties and change management. That was the reason I was curious about gitHub.

Regards,

AL

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zamroni777
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12 days ago

you should try the graphical local traffic policy in the bigip webgui.
it's also has more performance than irule script.

the docs seem complex but it's actually simple

https://techdocs.f5.com/en-us/bigip-15-0-0/big-ip-local-traffic-management-getting-started-with-policies/introducing-local-traffic-policies.html