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KevinGallaugher
F5 Employee
F5 Employee

Overview

Learn how to automate the deployment of SSL Orchestrator in Amazon Web Services.  

This article is based on the automation templates available here:

https://github.com/f5devcentral/sslo-cloud-templates

This will deploy SSL Orchestrator with an L3 Inbound Topology and two L3 Services in a Service Chain.

Follow the instructions here: lab-instructions-aws.md

A demo video of this article is available HERE

Steps Performed:

  • Install the Container Environment
  • Clone the Repository
  • Subscribe to EC2 Instances
  • Export your AWS Credentials
  • Copy the Terraform variables file and update the values         
  • Deploy the Terraform configuration
  • Build the SSL Orchestrator Topology using Ansible
  • Deploy the Ansible Configuration
  • Check the results

Launch the development container environment

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Restart the container and attach to the console:

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Clone the Repository

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Subscribe to EC2 Instances

From a web browser client - subscribe to the following EC2 instances:

Export your AWS Credentials

From inside your development environment - export the AWS credentials

  • export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID="your-aws-access-key-id"
  • export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY="your-aws-secret-access-key"
  • export AWS_SESSION_TOKEN="your-aws-session-token"

Copy the Terraform variables file and update the values

From the terraform-aws-sslo folder - Copy the included terraform.tfvars.example file to terraform.tfvars and update the values

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It should look like this:

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Deploy the Terraform Configuration

From inside your development environment - deploy the Terraform configuration

  • terraform init
  • terraform validate
  • terraform plan
  • terraform apply -auto-approve

Build the SSL Orchestrator Topology using Ansible

  • cd ansible
  • ansible-galaxy collection install f5networks.f5_modules f5networks.f5_bigip -f

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Deploy the Ansible Configuration

Deploy an Ansible config using the variables file that was created by the accompanying Terraform. This will create an inbound layer 3 SSL Orchestrator topology. From the 'ansible' folder:

cp ../terraform-aws-sslo/ansible_vars.yaml . ansible-playbook -e @ansible_vars.yaml playbooks/config-sslo-inbound-l3-complete.yaml

Check the Results

Login to the BIG-IP GUI and verify SSL Orchestrator has been configured and deployed

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Conclusion

You're done!  These templates and configuration files can be cusomized by you and re-used for future SSL Orchestrator deployments in AWS.

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Last update:
‎02-Feb-2023 13:44
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