Welcome to the F5 BIG-IP Migration Assistant - Now the F5 Journeys App

The older F5 BIG-IP Migration Assistant is deprecated and is replaced by F5 Journeys.

Welcome to the F5 Journeys App - BIG-IP Upgrade and Migration Utility

F5 Journeys App Readme @ Github

What is it?

The F5® Journeys BIG-IP upgrade and migration utility is a tool freely distributed by F5 to facilitate migrating BIG-IP configurations between different platforms. F5 Journeys is a downloadable assistant that coordinates the logistics required to migrate a BIG-IP configuration from one BIG-IP instance to another.

Why do I need it?

JOURNEYS is an application designed to assist F5 Customers with migrating a BIG-IP configuration to a new F5 device and enable new ways of migrating.

Supported journeys:

  • Full Config migration - migrating a BIG-IP configuration from any version starting at 11.5.0 to a higher one, including VELOS and rSeries systems.
  • Application Service migration - migrating mission critical Applications and their dependencies to a new AS3 configuration and deploying it to a BIG-IP instance of choice.

What does it do?

It does a bunch of stuff:

  • Loading UCS or UCS+AS3 source configurations
  • Flagging source configuration feature parity gaps and fixing them with provided built-in solutions
  • Load validation
  • Deployment of the updated configuration to a destination device, including VELOS and rSeries VM tenants
  • Post-migration diagnostics
  • Generating detailed PDF reports at every stage of the journey

Full config BIG-IP migrations are supported for software paths according to the following matrix:

        DEST      
  X 11.x 12.x 13.x 14.x 15.x 16.x
  <11.5 X X X X^ X^  
  12.x   X X X X^  
SRC 13.x     X X X  
  14.x       X X X
  15.x         X X
  16.x            

How does it work?

F5 Journeys App manages the logistics of a configuration migration. The F5 Journeys App either generates or accepts a UCS file from you, prompts you for a destination BIG-IP instance, and manages the migration. The destination BIG-IP instance has a tmsh command that performs the migration from a UCS to a running system. F5 Journeys uses this tmsh command to accomplish the migration using the platform-migrate option (see more details K82540512) .

The F5 Journeys App prompts you to enter a source BIG-IP (or upload a UCS file), the master key password, and destination BIG-IP instance. Once the tool obtains this information, it allows you to migrate the source BIG-IP configuration to the destination BIG-IP instance either entirely or in a per-application depending what you choose.

Where do I obtain it?

 F5 Journeys App Readme @ Github

What can go wrong?

Bug reporting

Let us know if something went wrong. By reporting issues, you support development of this project and get a chance of having it fixed soon. Please use bug template available here and attach the journeys.log file from the working directory (

/tmp/journeys
by default)

Feature requests

Ideas for enhancements are welcome here

For questions or further discussion please leave your comments below. Enjoy!

Updated Jun 06, 2023
Version 3.0
application delivery
AWS
BIG-IP
cloud
migrate
migration assistant
  • labilbo_133663's avatar
    labilbo_133663
    Historic F5 Account
    Dec 29, 2017

    PK: thanks for the feedback, I'll do my best to reproduce and fix that issue for the next release. If you're able to provide the BIG-IP model and software version, that should be a big help in producing the repro.

     

  • P_K's avatar
    P_K
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    Jan 02, 2018

    Will: I tried adding below devices

     

    Big-IP 4000 running 11.5.4,

     

    vCMP guest running 12.1.2(w/ Latest HF) host is running 11.5.4(5250v),

     

    Big-IP VE running 12.1.2..

     

    All the above resulted in below error

     

     

    Big-IP VE 13.1.0 was added to the list with no issues.

     

  • labilbo_133663's avatar
    labilbo_133663
    Historic F5 Account
    Jan 02, 2018

    Ok thanks PK! Just one thing to note, the Migration Assistant won't be able to connect directly to the BIG-IP running 11.5.4 (it requires software versions 12.1 or greater), but it should be returning a more friendly notification so I'll get that fixed. If you'd like to migrate from an 11.5.4 config, the Migration Assistant 'archives' panel provides a tool for selecting a previously generated UCS from versions 11.1 or greater, which can then be used for migration. We'll get the TypeError issue fixed for next release- thanks again!

     

  • Srini_87152's avatar
    Srini_87152
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    Jan 03, 2018

    Folks,

     

    I dont see any software on github to download, is that something im wrong?

     

    All im seeing .MD readle files.

     

    Thx

     

    Srini

     

  • Srini_87152's avatar
    Srini_87152
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    Jan 03, 2018

    yes,i did and unzipd those..all im seeing FAQ,README,SETUP and SUPPORT .md files and one folder with resources[ .png files].

     

    Thx

     

    Srini

     

  • Srini_87152's avatar
    Srini_87152
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    Jan 03, 2018

    Hi Jong,

     

    I dont see any executable files, all it has just .md and .png file.

     

    Thx

     

    Srini

     

  • jong_39455's avatar
    jong_39455
    Historic F5 Account
    Jan 03, 2018

    Srini,

     

    I apologize, I believe if you reload the page you should now see executables.