F5 Ansible Engine Validation

Automated validation of the desired state can be built into the playbook logic to ensure the expected end state is reached.  This lab will focus on building simple tests using the ansible.builtin.assert module. 

This hands-on exercises will setup a virtual server, and pool with 2 members, and make sure these traffic processing objects are available and healthy before sending any application traffic.

• Learn to use the ansible.builtin.assert module for inline testing
• Guided hands-on lab to implement simple validation of network configuration

• 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