iRules Editor & Declarative Development with Visual Studio Code

The windows iRule Editor has had a very long life. But...it hasn't been updated in years and really should be sunsetted in your environment. There have been other attempts along the way, from a personal project with a Mac desktop app written in python and Qt that never made it past me, an Eclipse plugin several years back that gained a little traction, but the iRule Editor Joe Pruitt created lived on through all of that.

However, there are a couple fantastic options now in the Visual Studio Code marketplace that combine to make for a great iRules development environment and also include the ability to pursue the automation toolchain development as well. Here are the tools you'll need:

• Visual Studio Code
• F5 Networks iRules (for iRules command completion and syntax highlighting)
• The F5 Extension (for session management and soooo much more)
• ACC Chariot (for converting config from UCS upload to AS3)

John Wagnon and I had Ben Gordon on our DevCentral Connects live stream a couple times to highlight the functionality, which as mentioned goes far beyond just iRules.