Application Services 3 Extension Documentation

Welcome to the F5 Application Services 3 Extension User Guide for AS3 version 3.13, a long term support (LTS) version (for details, see Support information on GitHub). To see the documentation for the latest version of AS3, use the version selector on the top left. To provide feedback on this documentation, you can file a GitHub Issue, or email us at solutionsfeedback@f5.com.

Note

To see what’s new in AS3, see the the Document Revision History or the Release Notes on GitHub.

Introduction

Application Services 3 Extension (referred to as AS3 Extension or more often simply AS3) is a flexible, low-overhead mechanism for managing application-specific configurations on a BIG-IP system. AS3 uses a declarative model, meaning you provide a JSON declaration rather than a set of imperative commands. The declaration represents the configuration which AS3 is responsible for creating on a BIG-IP system. AS3 is well-defined according to the rules of JSON Schema, and declarations validate according to JSON Schema. AS3 accepts declaration updates via REST (push), reference (pull), or CLI (flat file editing).

You can use Microsoft Visual Studio Code to validate your declarations, see Validating a Declaration for information.

This guide contains information on downloading, installing, and using the Application Services 3 Extension.

You can also see our AS3 overview video:

And the Using AS3 video:

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