AskF5's new BIG-IP upgrade guide

AskF5 published the new BIG-IP upgrade guide to help you through the BIG-IP upgrade process. At a minimum, F5 recommends that you upgrade your BIG-IP appliances to at least version 14.1.x and your BIG-IP VE systems to at least version 15.1.x. Because F5 customers use a variety of configurations and tools, there are many upgrade scenarios.

In this new Operations Guide, you'll find the following topics:

Prepare to upgrade

• Chapter 1: Guide introduction and contents
• Chapter 2: Choosing a BIG-IP upgrade version
• Chapter 3: Preparing to upgrade the BIG-IP system

BIG-IP hardware and VE platforms

BIG-IP systems

• Chapter 4: Upgrading a standalone BIG-IP system
• Chapter 5: Upgrading a standalone BIG-IP system using the TMOS Shell

VIPRION BIG-IP systems

• Chapter 6: Upgrading a VIPRION HA pair
• Chapter 7: Upgrading BIG-IP VIPRION vCMP systems

Other BIG-IP vCMP systems

• Chapter 8: Upgrading BIG-IP vCMP systems (non-VIPRION)

BIG-IP cloud platforms

BIG-IP on AWS

• Chapter 9: Upgrading a BIG-IP VE instance on AWS using the f5-aws-migrate.py script

BIG-IP on Microsoft Azure

• Chapter 10: Upgrading a BIG-IP Azure VM using the Azure portal to deploy an ARM template
• Chapter 11: Upgrading a BIG-IP Azure VM using Terraform to deploy an ARM template
• Chapter 12: Upgrading a BIG-IP Azure VM using Ansible to deploy an ARM template

BIG-IP on GCP

• Chapter 13: Upgrading a BIG-IP GCP VM using Terraform

Automation

• Chapter 14: Using F5 Modules for Ansible to upgrade BIG-IP system software

Send Feedback

This guide is a work in progress; request the upgrade scenarios you want to see in this guide. Use the feedback or survey button at the bottom of any guide page, or email TellAskF5@f5.com.

Related Content

For supported paths and general considerations, refer to K13845: Overview of supported BIG-IP upgrade paths and an upgrade planning reference.