Ansible modules for F5OS
Hello everyone, Any ansible modules available to configure F5OS hypervisor?, i am looking to automate the baseline configuration when we have a new F5OS based box, when i say baseline configuration it includes setting the hostnames, login banner, dns server, ntp, snmp, creating new tenants etc... are they any plans from F5 to release ansible modules for F5OS like what F5 team releases modules for BIG-IP??. if there are no plans what would be the general recommendation to go with either ansible shell module (or) ansible expect module to configure the F5OS box?? thank you, kumar
Error while running ansible
I am getting the following error when I am trying to run ansible script on f5 instance through jumphost The full traceback is: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.12/lib/python3.12/urllib/request.py", line 1344, in do_open h.request(req.get_method(), req.selector, req.data, headers, File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.12/lib/python3.12/http/client.py", line 1336, in request self._send_request(method, url, body, headers, encode_chunked) File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.12/lib/python3.12/http/client.py", line 1382, in _send_request self.endheaders(body, encode_chunked=encode_chunked) File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.12/lib/python3.12/http/client.py", line 1331, in endheaders self._send_output(message_body, encode_chunked=encode_chunked) File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.12/lib/python3.12/http/client.py", line 1091, in _send_output self.send(msg) File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.12/lib/python3.12/http/client.py", line 1035, in send self.connect() File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.12/lib/python3.12/http/client.py", line 1477, in connect self.sock = self._context.wrap_socket(self.sock, ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.12/lib/python3.12/ssl.py", line 455, in wrap_socket return self.sslsocket_class._create( ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.12/lib/python3.12/ssl.py", line 1042, in _create self.do_handshake() File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.12/lib/python3.12/ssl.py", line 1320, in do_handshake self._sslobj.do_handshake() ssl.SSLError: [SSL: WRONG_VERSION_NUMBER] wrong version number (_ssl.c:1000) During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/Users/pranaychowd.pinapaka/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1714109490.0885582-73185-193526554178977/AnsiballZ_bigip_command.py", line 107, in <module> _ansiballz_main() File "/Users/pranaychowd.pinapaka/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1714109490.0885582-73185-193526554178977/AnsiballZ_bigip_command.py", line 99, in _ansiballz_main invoke_module(zipped_mod, temp_path, ANSIBALLZ_PARAMS) File "/Users/pranaychowd.pinapaka/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1714109490.0885582-73185-193526554178977/AnsiballZ_bigip_command.py", line 47, in invoke_module runpy.run_module(mod_name='ansible_collections.f5networks.f5_modules.plugins.modules.bigip_command', init_globals=dict(_module_fqn='ansible_collections.f5networks.f5_modules.plugins.modules.bigip_command', _modlib_path=modlib_path), File "<frozen runpy>", line 226, in run_module File "<frozen runpy>", line 98, in _run_module_code File "<frozen runpy>", line 88, in _run_code File "/var/folders/4c/dnty3w814gxd01c5lq6910nr0000gn/T/ansible_bigip_command_payload_rjjis8dv/ansible_bigip_command_payload.zip/ansible_collections/f5networks/f5_modules/plugins/modules/bigip_command.py", line 757, in <module> File "/var/folders/4c/dnty3w814gxd01c5lq6910nr0000gn/T/ansible_bigip_command_payload_rjjis8dv/ansible_bigip_command_payload.zip/ansible_collections/f5networks/f5_modules/plugins/modules/bigip_command.py", line 750, in main File "/var/folders/4c/dnty3w814gxd01c5lq6910nr0000gn/T/ansible_bigip_command_payload_rjjis8dv/ansible_bigip_command_payload.zip/ansible_collections/f5networks/f5_modules/plugins/modules/bigip_command.py", line 680, in exec_module File "/var/folders/4c/dnty3w814gxd01c5lq6910nr0000gn/T/ansible_bigip_command_payload_rjjis8dv/ansible_bigip_command_payload.zip/ansible_collections/f5networks/f5_modules/plugins/modules/bigip_command.py", line 631, in exec_module File "/var/folders/4c/dnty3w814gxd01c5lq6910nr0000gn/T/ansible_bigip_command_payload_rjjis8dv/ansible_bigip_command_payload.zip/ansible_collections/f5networks/f5_modules/plugins/module_utils/icontrol.py", line 551, in tmos_version File "/var/folders/4c/dnty3w814gxd01c5lq6910nr0000gn/T/ansible_bigip_command_payload_rjjis8dv/ansible_bigip_command_payload.zip/ansible_collections/f5networks/f5_modules/plugins/module_utils/bigip.py", line 31, in api File "/var/folders/4c/dnty3w814gxd01c5lq6910nr0000gn/T/ansible_bigip_command_payload_rjjis8dv/ansible_bigip_command_payload.zip/ansible_collections/f5networks/f5_modules/plugins/module_utils/bigip.py", line 52, in connect_via_token_auth File "/var/folders/4c/dnty3w814gxd01c5lq6910nr0000gn/T/ansible_bigip_command_payload_rjjis8dv/ansible_bigip_command_payload.zip/ansible_collections/f5networks/f5_modules/plugins/module_utils/icontrol.py", line 239, in post File "/var/folders/4c/dnty3w814gxd01c5lq6910nr0000gn/T/ansible_bigip_command_payload_rjjis8dv/ansible_bigip_command_payload.zip/ansible_collections/f5networks/f5_modules/plugins/module_utils/icontrol.py", line 194, in send File "/var/folders/4c/dnty3w814gxd01c5lq6910nr0000gn/T/ansible_bigip_command_payload_rjjis8dv/ansible_bigip_command_payload.zip/ansible/module_utils/urls.py", line 1578, in open File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.12/lib/python3.12/urllib/request.py", line 215, in urlopen return opener.open(url, data, timeout) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.12/lib/python3.12/urllib/request.py", line 515, in open response = self._open(req, data) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.12/lib/python3.12/urllib/request.py", line 532, in _open result = self._call_chain(self.handle_open, protocol, protocol + ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.12/lib/python3.12/urllib/request.py", line 492, in _call_chain result = func(*args) ^^^^^^^^^^^ File "/var/folders/4c/dnty3w814gxd01c5lq6910nr0000gn/T/ansible_bigip_command_payload_rjjis8dv/ansible_bigip_command_payload.zip/ansible/module_utils/urls.py", line 605, in https_open File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.12/lib/python3.12/urllib/request.py", line 1347, in do_open raise URLError(err) urllib.error.URLError: <urlopen error [SSL: WRONG_VERSION_NUMBER] wrong version number (_ssl.c:1000)> fatal: [hostip ]: FAILED! => { "changed": false, "module_stderr": "Traceback (most recent call last):\n File \"/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.12/lib/python3.12/urllib/request.py\", line 1344, in do_open\n h.request(req.get_method(), req.selector, req.data, headers,\n File \"/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.12/lib/python3.12/http/client.py\", line 1336, in request\n .. . . . payload.zip/ansible_collections/f5networks/f5_modules/plugins/module_utils/bigip.py\", line 52, in connect_via_token_auth\n File \"/var/folders/4c/dnty3w814gxd01c5lq6910nr0000gn/T/ansible_bigip_command_payload_rjjis8dv/ansible_bigip_command_payload.zip/ansible_collections/f5networks/f5_modules/plugins/module_utils/icontrol.py\", line 239, in post\n File \"/var/folders/4c/dnty3w814gxd01c5lq6910nr0000gn/T/ansible_bigip_command_payload_rjjis8dv/ansible_bigip_command_payload.zip/ansible_collections/f5networks/f5_modules/plugins/module_utils/icontrol.py\", line 194, in send\n File \"/var/folders/4c/dnty3w814gxd01c5lq6910nr0000gn/T/ansible_bigip_command_payload_rjjis8dv/ansible_bigip_command_payload.zip/ansible/module_utils/urls.py\", line 1578, in open\n File \"/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.12/lib/python3.12/urllib/request.py\", line 215, in urlopen\n return opener.open(url, data, timeout)\n ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^\n File \"/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.12/lib/python3.12/urllib/request.py\", line 515, in open\n response = self._open(req, data)\n ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^\n File \"/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.12/lib/python3.12/urllib/request.py\", line 532, in _open\n result = self._call_chain(self.handle_open, protocol, protocol +\n ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^\n File \"/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.12/lib/python3.12/urllib/request.py\", line 492, in _call_chain\n result = func(*args)\n ^^^^^^^^^^^\n File \"/var/folders/4c/dnty3w814gxd01c5lq6910nr0000gn/T/ansible_bigip_command_payload_rjjis8dv/ansible_bigip_command_payload.zip/ansible/module_utils/urls.py\", line 605, in https_open\n File \"/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.12/lib/python3.12/urllib/request.py\", line 1347, in do_open\n raise URLError(err)\nurllib.error.URLError: <urlopen error [SSL: WRONG_VERSION_NUMBER] wrong version number (_ssl.c:1000)>\n", "module_stdout": "", "msg": "MODULE FAILURE\nSee stdout/stderr for the exact error", "rc": 1 }
Rundeck ansible F5 errors
We use rundeck to deploy some code and within that code we take advantage of the ansible to remove hosts in and out of the respective pool in the F5. Recently we upgraded to a new version of rundeck and the latest version of ansible. I've seen other posts where someone took out the delegate_to: line and that fixed it. I can do that or install a legacy version of ansible. Here is debug output from the failed task: TASK [f5_modify : Disable from pool -Test-API-8080] ********* fatal: [hostname.example.com -> localhost]: FAILED! => {"changed": false, "msg": "argument 'server_port' is of type <class 'NoneType'> found in 'provider'. and we were unable to convert to int: <class 'NoneType'> cannot be converted to an int"} PLAY RECAP ********************************************************************* hostname.example.com : ok=1 changed=0 unreachable=0 failed=1 skipped=0 rescued=0 ignored=0 ansible code: --- - name: "Disable from pool {{ pool_name }}" bigip_pool_member: provider: server: "{{ f5_ipaddress }}" user: "{{ f5_user }}" password: "{{ f5_pwd }}" validate_certs: "no" transport: "rest" state: forced_offline pool: "{{ pool_name }}" partition: "Common" host: "{{ansible_default_ipv4.address}}" port: "{{ pool_member_port }}" delegate_to: localhost when: action == "disable" tags: f5_manage # Enable pool member again if the deploy type is rolling, or the env is not prod - name: "Enable in pool {{ pool_name }}" bigip_pool_member: provider: server: "{{ f5_ipaddress }}" user: "{{ f5_user }}" password: "{{ f5_pwd }}" validate_certs: "no" transport: "rest" state: enabled pool: "{{ pool_name }}" partition: "Common" host: "{{ansible_default_ipv4.address}}" port: "{{ pool_member_port }}" delegate_to: localhost when: action == "enable" tags: f5_manage - name: Wait for clients to gracefully bleed off the server wait_for: host: "{{ansible_default_ipv4.address}}" port: "{{ pool_member_port }}" delay: 5 timeout: 120 state: drained ignore_errors: True when: - action == "disable" - deploy_type == "rolling" tags: f5_manage
Error when running bigip_command Playbook against LTM : Syntax Error: unexpected argument /bin/sh\n
I am running a Playbook to test bigip_command using ansible [core 2.15.3] against LTM running 15.1.6.1. When I run the playbook I get the following message: UNREACHABLE! => { “changed”: false, “msg”: “Failed to create temporary directory. In some cases, you may have been able to authenticate and did not have permissions on the target directory. Consider changing the remote tmp path in ansible.cfg to a path rooted in "/tmp", for more error information use -vvv. Failed command was: ( umask 77 && mkdir -p "echo $HOME/tmp"&& mkdir "echo $HOME/tmp/ansible-tmp-1709037153.0021555-3167181-73985055078518" && echo ansible-tmp-1709037153.0021555-3167181-73985055078518="echo $HOME/tmp/ansible-tmp-1709037153.0021555-3167181-73985055078518" ), exited with result 1”, “unreachable”: true } When I run the Playbook with -vvv flags I see the following line just before the error message pasted above: Failed to connect to the host via ssh: Syntax Error: unexpected argument “/bin/sh” Similarly, if I test the ssh I also see this same unexpected argument message: ansible all -m shell -a id -vvv Syntax Error: unexpected argument “/bin/sh”\n’ I have tried editing various things in hosts file and ansible.cfg but nothing I have tried seems to have made a difference. Is anyone familiar with this and what is needed to resolve this. Any help is greatly appreciated!Ansible very slow
I’m trying to make e playbook to create pools and virtual servers but it take a while, below an example, any solution? --- - name: Create local traffic objects on a BIG-IP hosts: F5 gather_facts: False connection: local vars: provider: password: "{{ ansible_password }}" server: "{{ ansible_host }}" user: "{{ ansible_user }}" validate_certs: False pools: - ["POOL_1", "INTERNET", "MEM_1"] - ["POOL_2", "INTERNET", "MEM_2"] - ["POOL_3", "WAN", "MEM_3"] tasks: - name: Create pools bigip_pool: state: present name: "{{ item[0] }}" partition: "{{ item[1] }}" provider: "{{ provider }}" #delegate_to: localhost loop: "{{ pools }}" - name: Add pool members bigip_pool_member: name: "{{ item[0] }}" partition: "{{ item[1] }}" host: "{{ item[2] }}" port: "80" provider: "{{ provider }}" reuse_nodes: false delegate_to: localhost loop: "{{ pools }}"Infrastructure as Code: Automating F5 Distributed Cloud CEs with Ansible
Introduction Welcome to the first installment of our Infrastructure as Code (IaC) series, focusing on F5 products and Ansible. This series has been a long-standing desire of mine to showcase the ability of IaC utilizing Ansible Automation Platform to deliver Day 0 through Day 2 operations with multiple F5 virtualized platforms. Over time, I've encountered numerous financial clients expressing interest in this topic. For many of these clients, the prospect of leveraging IaC to redeploy an environment outweighs the traditional approach of performing upgrades. This series will hopefully provide insight, documentation, and code for anyone embarking on this journey. Why Ansible Automation Platform? Like most people, I started my journey with community editions of Ansible. As my coding became more complex, so did the need to ensure that my lab infrastructure adhered to the best security guidelines required by my company (my goal being to mimic how customers would/should do things in real life). I began utilizing Ansible Automation Platform to ensure my credentials were protected, as well as to organize and share my code with the rest of my team (following the 'just in case you got hit by a bus' theory). Ansible Automation Platform utilizes execution environments (EE) to ensure code runs efficiently and cleanly every time. Now, I am also creating Execution Environments via GitHub with workflows and pushing them up to Quay.io (https://github.com/VDI-Tech-Guy/f5-execution-engines). Huge thanks to Colin McNaughton at Red Hat for making my life so much easier with building EEs! Why deploy F5 Distributed Cloud on VMware vSphere? As I mentioned before, I had this desire to build this Infrastructure as Code (IaC) code a while back. This was prior to the Broadcom acquisition of VMware. Being an ex-VMware employee, I had a lot of knowledge of virtualization platform infrastructure going into this project, and I started my focus on deploying on VMware vSphere. F5 Distributed Cloud can be deployed in any cloud, anywhere. However, I really wanted to focus on on-premises deployments because not every customer can afford the cloud. Moreover, there's always a back-and-forth battle between on-premises and the cloud, which has evolved into the Hybrid Cloud and the Multi-Cloud. I do intend to extend this series to the Multi-Cloud, but these initial deployments will be focused on VMware vSphere, as it is still utilized in many organizations across the globe. Information about the Setup in the Demo Video If you watch the video (down below) on how the deployment works, you can see i did a bunch of the pre-work prior to launching the deployment, in the git repostory (link in Resources). Here are some Prework items i did Had a fully functional Ansible Automation Platform 2.4+ enviornment setup and working. (at the time the controller version was 4.4.4) Execution Environment was imported into Ansible Automation Platform Controller The Project was setup to import the Playbooks from the Git Repository (In Resources Section below) and setup the Default Execution Environment Demo Inventory was setup (in our usecase we only needed the vCenter Host) We Setup Network Credentials for the vCenter The Template was setup and had Variables populated in it (Note the API Key was hidden). As mentioned in the Video (Below) The variables were populated to my environment, this contains all the information, i have provided a Demo Example in the git repository for anyone to mimic my settings to their environment, also the example has comments about each field or area of a field and the purpose of the variable. { "rhel_location": "https://vesio.blob.core.windows.net/releases/rhel/9/x86_64/images/vmware/rhel-9.2023.29-20231212012955-single-nic.ova", "xc_api_credential": "_____________________________________", "xc_namespace": "mmabis-automation", "xc_console_host": "f5-bd", "xc_user": "admin", "xc_pass": "Ansible123!", "vcenter_hostname": "{{ ansible_host }}", "vcenter_username": "{{ ansible_env.ANSIBLE_NET_USERNAME }}", "vcenter_password": "{{ ansible_env.ANSIBLE_NET_PASSWORD }}", "vcenter_validate_certs": false, "datacenter_name": "Apex", "cluster_name": "Worlds-Edge", "datastore": "TrueNAS-SSD", "dvs_switch_name": "DSC-DVS", "dns_name_servers": [ "192.168.192.20", "192.168.192.1" ], "dns_name_search": [ "dsc-services.local", "localdomain" ], "ntp_servers": [ "0.pool.ntp.org", "1.pool.ntp.org", "2.pool.ntp.org" ], "domain_fqdn": "dsc-services.local", "DVS_Name": "{{dvs_switch_name}}", "Internal_Network": "DVS-Server-vLan", "External_Network": "DVS-DMZ-vLan", "resource_pool_name": "Lab-XC", "waiting_period": 2, "temp_download_location": "/tmp/xc-ova-download.ova", "xc_ova_builds": [ { "hostname": "xc-automation-rhel-demo", "tmpl_name": "xc-automation-rhel-demo", "admin_password": "Ansible123!", "cluster_name": "xc-automation-cluster-rhel-demo", "dhcp": "no", "external_ip": "172.16.192.170", "external_ip_subnet_prefix": "24", "external_ip_gw": "172.16.192.1", "external_ip_route": "0.0.0.0/0", "internal_ip": "192.168.192.170", "internal_ip_subnet_prefix": "22", "internal_ip_gw": "192.168.192.1", "certified_hw": "vmware-regular-nic-voltmesh", "latitude": "39.51833126", "longitude": "-104.759496962", "build_count": 3, "nic_config": "rhel-multi" } ] } Launching the Code With all of that prework Handled it was as easy as launch the code, there were a few caviats i learned over time when dealing with the atuomation that i wanted to share. Never re-use a cluster name in F5 Distributed Cloud, especially if it was used in a different version of the CE (there were communications issues with the CEs and previous cluster information that was stored in F5 Distributred Cloud Console) The Api Credentials are system level when trying to accept registration or create the token for importing in to the environment. This code is designed to check for "{{ xc-namespace}}-token" if it exists then it will utilize the existing token, if not it will try to create it so you need system level permissions to do this. Build Count should be 3 by default (still needs to be defined) or an ODD number based on recomendations i have heard from our F5 Field. If there are more that i think of ill definatly edit the post and make sure its up-to-date. When launching the code i was able to get the lab to build up correctly multiple times, so please if there is an issue or something i might not have documented well, feel free to let me know and give it a shot for yourself! YouTube Video now on DevCentral Channel Resources https://github.com/f5devcentral/f5-bd-ansible-day0-automation - The Code utilized for this deployment https://github.com/VDI-Tech-Guy/f5-execution-engines - Building Execution Environments with Github and Workflows Conclusion I do hope that this series will help everyone who wants to embrace IaC and if you have any questions feel free to reach out!User-Role for Ansible
Hello, we want to start Ansible-Integration for our BIG IP, main reason: automate Certs with LetsEncrypt. How do you handle the user/password? we're a little bit concerned about save username/password in ansible. another question: what User-Role would be needed for Certs and SSL Profiles?
f5 token based authentication using uri module throw error
using below yml file with header as below and token is variable authx . error i am getting is "authx is undefined" is the header correct ? --- - name: "{{ name }}" uri: url: "{{ url }}" method: "GET" headers: X-F5-Auth-Token: "{{ authx }}" validate_certs: "no" status_code: "{{ status|default(200) }}" timeout: 60 ignore_errors: True delegate_to: localhost JRahm
Connecting to F5 using SSH via Ansible
I am in the process of writing a playbook which uses SSH to connect to F5 and run a bash command (ntpdate -d time_server) to confirm NTP connectivity across the environment. For SSH I am using root. Here is the task that I have in the playbook. - name: "Check NTP on {{override_host}}" vars: ansible_connection: ssh ansible_user: "root" ansible_password: "{{root_pwd}}" ansible_ssh_private_key_file: "~/.ssh/f5-ansible-ssh" command: cmd: ntpdate -d {{item}} loop: "{{new_ntp_servers}}" register: ntp_status The error message that I get is as follows MSG: The module failed to execute correctly, you probably need to set the interpreter. See stdout/stderr for the exact error MODULE_STDOUT: /bin/sh: /usr/local/bin/python3.9: No such file or directory MODULE_STDERR: ******************************* IMPORTANT NOTE ****************************** Banner ***************************************************************************** Shared connection to ltm closed. Any help would be greatly appreciated...
