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We have a fairly comprehensive Update & Upgrade Operations Guide for BIG-IP that covers a lot of different situations here:
- Chapter 2: Introduction
How to use the chapters in this guide, upgrading vs. updating, and reasons to keep your BIG-IP software up to date. - Chapter 3: Choose a BIG-IP update or upgrade version
- Chapter 4: Prepare to update or upgrade any BIG-IP system
BIG-IP hardware and VE platforms
BIG-IP systems
- Chapter 5: Update or upgrade a standalone BIG-IP VE system using the Configuration utility
- Chapter 6: Update or upgrade a standalone BIG-IP VE system using the TMOS Shell
- Chapter 7: Update or upgrade BIG-IP HA systems the Configuration utility
- Chapter 8: Update or upgrade BIG-IP HA systems using the TMOS Shell
- Chapter 9: Update or upgrade BIG-IP systems using BIG-IQ:
How to update or upgrade your managed devices, when you use the BIG-IQ system to manage your BIG-IP systems.
BIG-IP VIPRION and vCMP systems
- Chapter 10: Update or upgrade BIG-IP VIPRION systems (non-vCMP)
- Chapter 11: Update or upgrade BIG-IP VIPRION systems (vCMP):
How to update or upgrade a pair of BIG-IP VIPRION Virtual Clustered Multiprocessing (vCMP) host systems and a vCMP guest HA device group that is running on the vCMP host. - Chapter 12: Update or upgrade BIG-IP appliance systems (vCMP):
How to update or upgrade BIG-IP vCMP host systems that are not VIPRION and a vCMP guest HA device group that is running on the vCMP host.
BIG-IP cloud platforms
Upgrade chapters 13 through 20 for BIG-IP Cloud platforms make use of third-party cloud provider template technologies. The cloud providers and the third-party automation tools provider may update or revise their template features, and specific steps in the articles may change without our knowledge. F5 Support does not provide support for deploying or troubleshooting the templates themselves. You should first consider using one of the upgrade methods described in chapters 5 through 8 of this guide. You may use the upgrade chapters 13 through 20 under the following conditions:
- Your BIG-IP VE instance has only a single boot location.
- You require a completely new BIG-IP VE instance. For example, you suspect a security compromise on your BIG-IP system. For more information, refer to K11438344: Considerations and guidance when you suspect a security compromise on a BIG-IP system
- Your BIG-IP VE instances are part of an AWS auto scaling group or Azure virtual machine scale set.
BIG-IP on AWS
BIG-IP on Microsoft Azure
BIG-IP on GCP
Automation
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F5 SSL Orchestrator
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