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Aug 29, 2019

How to automate LB VIP Creation

Hi Team,

 

Greetings for the day!

 

How can i automate LB VIP creation (Full setup - like to deploy new application behind LB.). Is this can be done via any script ot by F5 itself ? Or, do i need to get a third party tool

 

Regards,

ShashankS

4 Replies

  • You can script it using iControlREST or you could use something like Ansible or Terraform as 3rd party tools.

     

    All depends on your trigger, what will happen to require a new VS to be configured on the F5 in question?

  • Hi Andy,

     

    Thanks for reply,

     

    Can you please guide me , on how i can achieve this with iControlREST

     

    Requirement is to automate the full steps of deploying application behind LB. (Like creating node , creating pool members , creating pool , creation of vip and apply required features like LB method , persistence ,binding certificate.

     

    Regards,

    ShashankS

  • Best resource to get started is here: https://clouddocs.f5.com/api/icontrol-rest/

     

    Also look at the code shares and articles here on DevCentral for a load of resource and help with iControl.

     

    Warning: The older 'iControl' uses SOUP where iControl-Rest uses REST, iControl-Rest is recommended but if you find an article on iControl it may be using SOUP instead of REST.

  • Thanks Andy for sharing an article and sorry for delay response .

     

    Can you please let me know where should i run below code :- (like normally we run on CLI of F5)

     

    curl -sku admin:admin https://<host>/mgmt/tm/ltm/virtual -H "Content-Type: application/json" -X POST

    -d '{"name": "vs", \

      "destination": "10.10.10.10:10", \

      "mask": "255.255.255.255", \

      "pool": "CentOS-all80", \

      "persist": [ {"name": "cookie"} ], \

      "profilesReference": {"items": [ {"context": "all", "name": "http"}, {"context": "all", "name": "tcp"}, {"context": "clientside", "name": "clientssl"}] }, \

      "rules": [ "ShowVersion" ], \

      "sourceAddressTranslation": {"type": "automap"} }'

     

    Regards,

    ShashankS