Components

The following are the main components of AS3.

AS3 Declaration

An AS3 declaration describes the desired configuration of an Application Delivery Controller (ADC) such as F5 BIG-IP in tenant- and application-oriented terms. An AS3 tenant comprises a collection of AS3 applications and related resources responsive to a particular authority (the AS3 tenant becomes a partition on the BIG-IP system). An AS3 application comprises a collection of ADC resources relating to a particular network-based business application or system. AS3 declarations may also include resources shared by Applications in one Tenant or all Tenants as well as auxiliary resources of different kinds. AS3 processes declarations on a tenant-by-tenant basis, so a declaration containing configuration for Tenant1 does not affect Tenant2. For detailed information on AS3 declarations, see AS3 Declaration Purpose and Function.

For example declarations, see Example declarations and Appendix B: Additional Declarations.

AS3 JSON Schema

The JSON schema validates the declaration, and then produces a BIG-IP configuration. The JSON Schema document prescribes the syntax of an AS3 declaration. The AS3 declaration schema controls which objects may appear in a declaration, what name they may or must use, what properties they may have, which of those you must supply in the declaration, and which AS3 may fill with default values. The schema also specifies the ranges of values certain properties may take. For detailed information on the AS3 schema, see F5 AS3 JSON Schema.

AS3 contains two modules: a REST worker and an audit engine. The REST worker provides a CRUD interface for creating and modifying the declaration document. The audit engine is responsible for aligning BIG-IP configuration with the declaration document.

Declaration > Schema > Validation > Configuration