Lab 2.5: FQDN and Service Discovery

Note

Estimated time to complete: 5 minutes

Lab environment access

If you have not yet visited the page Getting Started, please do so.

Tasks

Connect via SSH or Web Shell to the system Ubuntu Lamp Server. (if you use the Web Shell, login as f5student first: su - f5student)

Execute the playbooks for each tasks

• Task 10: HTTP Application Service using an FQDN pool to identify pool members:

  cd /home/f5/f5-ansible-bigiq-as3-demo
  ./cmd_bigiq_as3_apps_creation.sh as3_bigiq_task10_create_http_app_fqdn_nodes.json
  

You can look at the details of the AS3 declaration on the GitHub repository.

Login as david and check on BIG-IQ the application has been correctly created.

Warning

Starting 7.0, BIG-IQ displays AS3 application services created using the AS3 Declare API as Unknown Applications. You can move those application services using the GUI, the Move/Merge API, bigiq_move_app_dashboard F5 Ansible Galaxy role or create it directly into Application in BIG-IQ using the Deploy API to define the BIG-IQ Application name.

Connect on the BIG-IP and look at the fqdn_pool:

Warning

BIG-IQ won’t display the number of servers in the dashboard for FQDN nodes.