NAMER F5 Test Drive Lab: Exploring & Enabling Automation w/Red Hat Ansible on F5 BIG-IP (Basics)

F5 and Red Hat Ansible provide a joint solution that helps you automate today’s multi-modal infrastructures. By cutting deployment times and significantly reducing the number of resources required to manage modern infrastructures, Red Hat Ansible and F5 can help enable a more agile and responsive IT.

This lab will cover the following topics:

• Introduction to Ansible automation for F5 BIG-IP use-cases, the ROI of automation, and the benefits of the F5 certified collections.
• How to automate Day 0 and Day 1 functions on your F5 BIG-IP Virtual Editions and physical appliances, such as iSeries and rSeries.
• Ensure best practices with Ansible automation and F5.
• Understand key use cases for automation of the F5 BIG-IP: the simplicity and repeatability of using Red Hat Ansible to automate large-scale F5 BIG-IP deployments.

Prerequisite: None

Note: This session is the pre-requisite for the Advanced session hosted on February 7th.