Install F5 Lifecycle Operator

F5 Lifecycle Operator (FLO) is seamlessly installed by using Helm with the values override file flo-value.yaml file, which includes all essential configurations for the successful installation of FLO and the necessary resources to configure BIG-IP Next for Kubernetes. During the FLO Helm installation, the IPAM operator, CNEInstance custom resource definition (CRD), and BIG-IP Next for Kubernetes component CRDs are installed along with FLO. The IPAM Operator, in collaboration with the F5 IPAM Controller (FIC), manages the dual-stack IP addresses (IPv4 and IPv6) for Gateway resources. For more information, see F5 IPAM Controller for Gateway API.

Note: By default, the Helm installation will install the product in the default namespace. However, this approach is not recommended. It is expected that customers provide a non-default tenant namespace when installing the FLO helm-chart. This will ensure that FLO is deployed in the designated user-provided tenant namespace. It is important that the CNEInstance CR is also deployed in the same tenant namespace.

Prerequisites

Before you install FLO, ensure that the following prerequisites are met:

• Perform helm login and apply FAR secret to pull the artifacts from FAR. For more information, see Artifacts via F5 Artifact Registry (FAR).

• Configure cert-manager to create certificates for secure communication between pods, see Cert Manager.

• Create self-signed CA secret and clusterissuer, see Cert Manager.

• Create namespaces according to your planned configuration and apply FAR secrets, see Create FAR secret in namespaces.

• Obtained the JWT for this cluster from your MyF5 account.

• Configure F5 License Proxy (FLP) if you want to license the BIG-IP Next for Kubernetes cluster in FLP mode, see Install and configure F5 License Proxy (FLP).

Install the F5 Lifecycle Operator

For information on the F5 Lifecycle Operator parameters featured in this example, or for a comprehensive list of available parameters, see F5 Lifecycle Operator Parameters.

1. Create a flo-values.yaml  file with the contents below.

   vi flo-values.yaml
   

   global:
     imagePullSecrets:
       - name: far-secret
     certmgr:
       clusterIssuer: <Name of the ClusterIssuer>
   rbac:
     create: true 
   containerPlatform: Generic
   ServiceIPFamily: ipv4
   sharedComponentNamespace: ""  
   image:
     repository: repo.f5.com/images
     name: f5-lifecycle-operator
     pullPolicy: Always
   
   namespace: "f5-operators"
   
   fluentbit_sidecar:
     enabled: true
     image:
       name: f5-fluentbit
    
   license:
     operationMode: "connected"
     logLevel: "info"
     jwt: "$JWT"
     friendlyName: <Name of the Cluster>
     teemCertUrl: "https://product.apis.f5.com/ee/v1"
     teemEntitlementUrl: "https://product-s.apis.f5.com/ee/v1"
     teemInitialConfigUrl: "https://product-s.apis.f5.com/ee/v1"
     kid: "v1"
     alg: "RS512"
     kty: "RSA"
     modulus: "wgqDv-fuebdh_gV3wN8voRGcHGDo4YekYT78U2x-gAgxWDFFP4uIpQk9d_Hszevyr78xgFBD7RnR4FeWu7R62L1DnEEbrQYEjNI1quLtcfI5wvfdMLeyv5ZXe4-Uu21lwhvRtJCyzNRW797NPaVsMAzrcWwslHZdrljgbLaf3UX90ITyqd9MFgb7jNmRLjdzZLDqQjyYJTq2AOaAoagX0pqKkBWGlgNbiFAuV2RMUhis9Ei5NSfiD5I5ntsvp_Q_XxcJrYrJOs9uaXkeTMXa58JUeX7Tt6zLA6Ju1wxClYMyNWj4u5dG8u2yhCrucJ2_IvTs4A1BSOfAWW5TwS8BBYuY9H_OXgoqyYybeOU5YOHmszaDXfMs7FFZkjAFIfr95bprH-HW1cwREQ_eqkYxi9XmA3KCNQGLhZ_i9gRTu8MlGwYzckeJG_NOyPIa7WRw7zFe7RHcchqaCSjpWC4u-GSZ92uf-EUw2Db7OX4J8VcD_3cvCfCEzfsrSaTkLZvlkYLC-3x4eM7B2GiM7SA8l4u0DK0nrScLsOR5njd2IUUB38K39Jq-tlD5PoqLT6u0AE4IJtWN-S6uFhqzdUvExBYK19ZhTbeMmOEkMALlEPhsNUnOSXGnocxlsRYldwfCoNtpVYxlXrSnbHkuPlK8Q27yi1wO9r3RwO_OxQnUvXk"
     exponent: "AQAB"
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     use: "sig"
     licenseserverrootca: null
   

2. Before you perform the Helm installation for FLO, ensure that you update the flo-value.yaml file with the correct values.

   Note: For information on the FLO Values spec parameters featured in this example, or for a comprehensive list of parameters, see F5 Lifecycle Operator (FLO).

   • Update the namespace details according to your planned configuration.

   • Update the license.jwt with the actual JWT.

   • If you choose to use your local registry to pull the artifacts, make sure to update registry.uri parameter with your registry path.

   • Update the imagePullSecrets.name with the actual secret to download artifacts from the registry, see Create FAR secret.

   • Ensure that the global.certmgr.clusterIssuer parameter in flo-value.yaml is properly updated with the metadata.name value of the cluster issuer, see Configure Cert Manager.

   • Update the below licensing parameters with the specified values to successfully license the cluster in connected mode:

     • teemCertUrl: https://product.apis.f5.com/ee/v1

     • teemEntitlementUrl: https://product-s.apis.f5.com/ee/v1

     • teemInitialConfigUrl: https://product-s.apis.f5.com/ee/v1.

   • By default, BIG-IP Next for Kubernetes clusters are licensed in connected mode. If you want to license the clusters in FLP mode, set:

     • license.operationMode to f5licenseproxy.

     • license.licenseserverrootca with FLP RootCA. See License the cluster in FLP Mode.

     • teemCertUrl to https://<FLP HostName>:30001/license-proxy/v1 and update the FLP HostName according to your configuration.

     • teemEntitlementUrl to https://<FLP HostName>:30001/license-proxy/v1 and update the FLP HostName according to your configuration.

     • teemInitialConfigUrl to https://<FLP HostName>:30001/license-proxy/v1 and update the FLP HostName according to your configuration.

3. Install the F5 Lifecycle Operator.

   helm install flo oci://repo.f5.com/charts/f5-lifecycle-operator --version <<FLO_VERSION>> -f flo-values.yaml --namespace <<namespace>>
   

   In the below example, charts/f5-lifecycle-operator is the path for pulling f5-lifecycle-operator Helm chart and its version is v2.9.27-0.2.10 as retrieved from the bigip-k8s-manifest:2.2.0-3.2226.0-0.0.385.yaml file.

   helm install flo oci://repo.f5.com/charts/f5-lifecycle-operator --version v2.9.27-0.2.10 -f flo-values.yaml --namespace f5-operators
   

4. Check the CNEInstance CRD and BIG-IP Next for Kubernetes component CRDs.

   NOTE: The CNEInstance CRD and BIG-IP Next for Kubernetes component CRDs will remain in the cluster after the Helm uninstallation of FLO.

   kubectl get crd | grep k8s.f5.com
   

   Sample Output:

   afms.k8s.f5.com                                  2025-03-18T00:14:41Z
   cneinstance.k8s.f5.com                           2025-03-18T00:14:41Z
   coremonds.k8s.f5.com                             2025-03-18T00:14:41Z
   crdconversions.k8s.f5.com                        2025-03-18T00:14:41Z
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