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Patrick_Lieberg
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Oct 05, 2021
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F5 Kubernetes BIG-IP Controller or CIS not connecting to Azure Big-IP deployment

I have started a POC for the BIG-IP Azure deployments, which deployed successfully and I have accessed and set the password. I've deployed the helm chart for CIS, but the pod fails to start. I've tes...
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  • Patrick_Lieberg's avatar
    Patrick_Lieberg
    Oct 13, 2021

    Turns out I missed a step in adding the AS3 module to my BIG-IP VE poc VM.

     

    Pretty silly really.

     

    Thanks for the suggestions everyone.

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Jeff_Giroux_F5
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Oct 13, 2021

Hey good call on the auth. Usually a < symbol is part of HTML payload. JSON will have the {} brackets. If you're able to tcpdump or debug the traffic and see entire payload, you will most likely see an unexpected response from the server in HTML which means the initial client call is not correct or in correct format. In my case, I was not working with CIS but was doing JSON auth to a URL...wrong URL ended up providing an error in HTML <> payload. However, the terrraform error only gave the invalid character < message but a full request/response showed bad URL, bad response clearly :) hope that helps some...