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vkrishna91
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Oct 10, 2022

Unable to use ansible playbook to upgrade BIGIP - VE to 15.1.6.1 from 15.1.5.1

Hi Team, I'm trying to utilize ansible playbook to automate our F5 upgrade. Current version: 15.1.5.1 New version: 15.1.6.1 I'm trying to utilize a bash script to dynamically identify the par...
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    Matt_Mabis
    Oct 27, 2022

    Just for anyone else who read this, the issue was a local execution 

     

      connection: local

     

    this causes the system to SSH to itself and there is no tmsh on the ansible host.   removing this line and then adding delegate_to: localhost when calling a BIG-IP module solved this issue.  it allows the playbook to remote execute the code via SSH

     

    After removing it and fixing a few code tweaks we were able to launch the code 

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Matt_Mabis
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Oct 11, 2022

Just tested with 15.1.5.1

[root@DS9 test]# ansible-playbook upgrade.yaml

PLAY [Upgrade BIG-IP software] ***************************************************************************************************************************************************

TASK [Get available volume number to use] ****************************************************************************************************************************************
changed: [test-bip]

TASK [debug] *********************************************************************************************************************************************************************
ok: [test-bip] => {
    "vol": {
        "changed": true,
        "failed": false,
        "rc": 0,
        "stderr": "Shared connection to 10.192.1.199 closed.\r\n",
        "stderr_lines": [
            "Shared connection to 10.192.1.199 closed."
        ],
        "stdout": "HD1.4",
        "stdout_lines": [
            "HD1.4"
        ]
    }
}

TASK [COLLECT BIG-IP FACTS] ******************************************************************************************************************************************************
ok: [test-bip -> localhost]

TASK [debug] *********************************************************************************************************************************************************************
ok: [test-bip] => {
    "device_facts['system_info']['product_version']": "15.1.5.1"
}

PLAY RECAP ***********************************************************************************************************************************************************************
test-bip                   : ok=4    changed=1    unreachable=0    failed=0    skipped=0    rescued=0    ignored=0

the upgrade.yaml

---
- name: Upgrade BIG-IP software
  hosts: bigip_hosts
  gather_facts: False
  vars_files:
    - vars/vars.yml
  vars:
    provider:
      password: "{{ f5_pass }}"
      server: "{{ ansible_host }}"
      user: "{{ f5_user }}"
      validate_certs: False

  tasks:
    - name: Get available volume number to use
      ansible.builtin.script: "{{ playbook_dir }}/files/cal_vol.sh"
      register: vol

    - debug:
        var: vol

    - name: COLLECT BIG-IP FACTS
      f5networks.f5_modules.bigip_device_info:
        provider: "{{ provider }}"
        gather_subset:
          - system-info
      register: device_facts
      delegate_to: localhost

    - debug:
        var: device_facts['system_info']['product_version']