Upgrade BigIP using Ansible

Problem this snippet solves: A simple, and possibly poor, ansible playbook for upgrading devices. Allows separating devices into two "reboot groups" to allow rolling restarts of clusters. How to u...
Published Jul 11, 2020
Version 1.0
Ansible
BIG-IP
Super-NetOps
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Jul 22, 2020

Thanks Sebastian, and kudos for the presentation on DevCentral Connect. It was when watching a previous video and they mentioned you'd automated it that I thought "I could do that".

 

I haven't found myself needing to have a task to copy the config. I've tested it (in a VE lab) with new boot locations and it looks as though the copy config is implicit in the bigip_software_install task. Have you had experience of it not copying the config over?