f5_rs_aws_bigip - deploys bigip in AWS using CFT¶

New in version 2.4.

Synopsis
Requirements (on host that executes module)
Options
Examples
Return Values
Notes
- Status
- Support

Synopsis ¶

deploys bigip in AWS using CFT, currently supports only the WAF-autoscale CFT

Requirements (on host that executes module)¶

aws

Options ¶

parameter	required	default	choices	comments
aws_region	no	us-west-2	any aws region any aws region	aws region in which the vpc will be created
deploymentName	yes			unique name for deployment, must be firstname-first letter of last name and a 3 digit number - example yossir100
subnets	yes	none	aws subnet in azA aws subnet in azB	expecting two subnets in the format of {subnet1, subnet2}
service_name	yes	app1	app1 up to 6 letters	service name for identification
vpc	yes	none	vpc-isdfr	vpc in which bigip's will be deployed
bigipElasticLoadBalancer	yes	none	elb-name-dsfsd	ELB for scaling out the bigip's

Examples ¶

Deploy:

ansible-playbook –vault-password-file ~/.vault_pass.txt playbooks/aws_bigip_deploy.yaml -e ” deploymentName=yossir100 service_name=App1 aws_region=”$(etcdctl get f5-rs-aws-net/yossir100/aws_region)” vpc=”$(etcdctl get f5-rs-aws-net/yossir100/vpc)” subnets=”$(etcdctl get f5-rs-aws-net/yossir100/subnets)” bigipElasticLoadBalancer=”$(etcdctl get f5-rs-aws-external-lb/yossir100/bigipElasticLoadBalancer)” applicationPoolTagValue=”$(etcdctl get f5-rs-aws-app/yossir100/appAutoscaleGroupName)”“

Destroy:

ansible-playbook –vault-password-file ~/.vault_pass.txt playbooks/aws_bigip_deploy.yaml -e ” deploymentName=yossir100 service_name=App1 aws_region=”$(etcdctl get f5-rs-aws-net/yossir100/aws_region)” vpc=”$(etcdctl get f5-rs-aws-net/yossir100/vpc)” subnets=”$(etcdctl get f5-rs-aws-net/yossir100/subnets)” bigipElasticLoadBalancer=”$(etcdctl get f5-rs-aws-external-lb/yossir100/bigipElasticLoadBalancer)” applicationPoolTagValue=”$(etcdctl get f5-rs-aws-app/yossir100/appAutoscaleGroupName)” state=absent”

Return Values ¶

Return values are stored in the following etcd path:

f5_rs_aws_app/<deploymentName>/

name	description	sample
appAutoscaleGroupName	auto scale group name of the app in EC2	"yossir-demo1-App1-application-appAutoscaleGroup-SXQKA5PH9TI"
appInternalDnsName	internal DNS name of the ELB fronting the app	internal-demo1-App1-AppElb-1123840165.us-west-2.elb.amazonaws.comb
appInternalElasticLoadBalancer	Id of ELB for App Pool	demo1-App1-AppElb

Notes ¶

Note

For more information on using Ansible to manage F5 Networks devices see https://www.ansible.com/integrations/networks/f5.

Status ¶

This module is flagged as preview which means that it is not guaranteed to have a backwards compatible interface.

Support ¶

This module is community maintained without core committer oversight.

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