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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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vkrishna91
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Oct 13, 2022

Thank you for testing it Matt_Mabis. 
I will test it on a F5 to check if it works. Would it be possible for you to share the part that actually installs the image on the playbook?

This is what I have configured:

- name: Install Image and reboot
bigip_software_install:
provider: "{{ f5_provider }}"
image: "{{ new_image }}"
state: activated
volume: "{{ vol.stdout }}"
async: 45
poll: 0
any_errors_fatal: true


- name: Group 1 Upgrades
block:

- ansible.builtin.import_tasks: checks.yaml
vars:
stage: "pre"
when: check_virts or check_pools or check_ver

- name: Pausing execution to give device time to reboot (first time)
pause:
minutes: 10