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Automation & Orchestration Infrastructure Automation

F5 Terraform Automation Lab

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Solution Overview

Infrastructure-as-Code is a significant movement across the networking industry that builds on core principles within the DevOps movement that favor treating everything possible "as code."

The F5 Terraform Automation Lab is an hands-on overview to introduce the concept of IaC (Infrastructure-as-Code) for managing F5 application services using BIG-IP Terraform Provider. 

Goals & Objectives

The lab is divided into 6 modules to allow lab users to learn the below concepts.

  • Module1: Install Terraform and BIG-IP Provider.
  • Module2: Create and modify terraform files to perform imperative automation using F5 provider resources.
  • Module3: Delete/remove F5 configuration using Terraform.
  • Module4: Update Terraform files and utilize the F5 AS3 declarative model to configure F5 services.
  • Module5: Update Terraform files to provision ASM and secure web application using security policy stored on source control platform such as Github.
  • Module6: Leverage the F5 automation tool-chain using DO (declarative onboarding) & AS3 to deploy F5 configurations "as-code."

Hardware & Software

  • 1 x F5 BIG-IP VE (v15.1.0)
  • 1 x Linux LAMP Servers
  • 1 x Windows 10 Jumphost
  • 1 x vRouter(vyos)

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