F5 IPAM Controller

The F5 IPAM Controller (FIC) is a Docker container that runs in a container environment. It allocates IP addresses from an IPAM system’s address pool for hostnames in an orchestration environment. The F5 IPAM Controller watches orchestration-specific resources and consumes the hostnames within each resource.

Note

You must run BIG-IP Next Container Ingress Services with the options below to interface with FIC.

• Use --ipam=true in your BIG-IP Next CIS deployment to interface with FIC. With this parameter set to true, BIG-IP Next CIS decides if it needs to retrieve an IP address from the IPAM Controller or not.
  • If a virtualServerAddress is specified in the Kubernetes resource, BIG-IP Next CIS will not leverage the IPAM Controller for IP address even if a CIDR parameter is specified.
  • If No virtualServerAddress is specified in the Kubernetes resource and the ipamLabel parameter is specified, CIS will leverage the IPAM Controller for allocation of IP address.
• BIG-IP Next CIS creates the IPAM CR in the specified namespace (default: kube-system).
• You can configure the FIC instance to watch specified namespace (default: kube-system).

• Deployment Options
  • Infoblox IPAM Integration
  • Static IPAM Management
• Install the FIC
  • Prerequisites
  • Install Using Operator
  • Install the FIC Using Helm Charts
  • Install the FIC Manually
• Configuration Parameters
  • General
  • Infoblox
  • Static IPAM
  • Troubleshooting & FAQ

Note

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