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shepardce
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Mar 30, 2022
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Uploading ISOs via legacy f5-sdk

I'm working on porting our legacy Bash-based BIG-IP upgrade script to Python, and running into an issue when trying to upload the new image via the (apparently legacy) SDK. Here's the relevant code s...
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  • JRahm's avatar
    JRahm
    Mar 30, 2022

    Update: use upload_image, not upload_file.

    This was successful (slow, but successful) for me:

     

    from f5.bigip import ManagementRoot
b = ManagementRoot('ltm3.test.local', 'admin', 'admin')
b.cm.autodeploy.software_image_uploads.upload_image('/Users/jrahm/Downloads/BIGIP-14.1.4.1-0.0.4.iso')

     

    make sure your firmwareIsoPath is accurate and that method requires a .iso extension. Also, if this is greenfield and you're not really too far into a conversion, I'd highly recommend bigrest over the f5-common-python library. Here's a couple compare/contrast articles I wrote between the two:

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shepardce
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Mar 31, 2022

Ha! I was using the wrong function in the end. That certainly sounds like me.

I'll take a look at bigrest as well, especially since it sounds like that'll have more support going forward; sadly, we aren't yet at a point where we can go completely declarative at my org. Thanks!

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JRahm
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Mar 31, 2022

I really like the tradeoffs Leo made with bigrest comparitively. Hit me up any time!