F5 Ansible Engine Setup

This lab module is the first in the learning path, providing a comprehensive guide to setting up an Ansible automation environment using Visual Studio Code as the IDE. Key learning points include:

• Understanding the importance of organizing development projects and using Python virtual environments to isolate dependencies.
• Setting up Visual Studio Code for Ansible development, including the installation of Python extensions and Ansible extensions.
• Exploring Ansible Galaxy to search for collections.
• Installing Ansible collections using the ansible-galaxy command-line tool and requirements.yml files.
• Cloning roles from source control, exemplified with the installation of the NetBox IPAM solution role.

By the end of this lab you will understand the core components of Ansible Engine and how to setup your development environment. 

• Ubuntu Linux Jumpbox
  • Ansible Engine
  • Visual Studio Code
  • Python3
• 2 x F5 BIG-IP
• 2 x Ubuntu Web Servers
• 1 x Ubuntu Utils Server
  • BIND
  • NetBox