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Lab 2.7: Perform lab 1, 2 and 4 using Ansible¶

Note

Estimated time to complete: 20 minutes

This lab will be using the following F5 Ansible Galaxy roles:

atc_deploy ansible Role: Allows AS3 declaration to be sent to automation tool chain service.
bigiq_move_app_dashboard ansible Role: Move Application Service(s) in BIG-IQ Application Dashboard.

Lab environment access¶

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

Tasks¶

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

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.

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.

Task 1: HTTP Application Service:

cd /home/f5/f5-ansible-bigiq-as3-demo
./cmd_bigiq_as3_apps_creation.sh as3_bigiq_task01_create_http_app.json

Task 2: HTTPS Offload:

cd /home/f5/f5-ansible-bigiq-as3-demo
./cmd_bigiq_as3_apps_creation.sh as3_bigiq_task02_create_https_app.json

Task 3a: HTTPS Application with Web Application Firewall:
```
cd /home/f5/f5-ansible-bigiq-as3-demo
./cmd_bigiq_as3_apps_creation.sh as3_bigiq_task03a_create_waf_app.json
```
Login as david and check on BIG-IQ the application has been correctly created.

Task 4: Generic Services:

cd /home/f5/f5-ansible-bigiq-as3-demo
./cmd_bigiq_as3_apps_creation.sh as3_bigiq_task04_create_generic_app.json

Task 5a: Add a HTTPS Application to existing HTTP AS3 Declaration (using POST):
```
cd /home/f5/f5-ansible-bigiq-as3-demo
./cmd_bigiq_as3_apps_creation.sh as3_bigiq_task05a_modify_post_http_app.json
```
Login as david and check on BIG-IQ the application has been correctly created.

Move Task1 application services into a single Application on BIG-IQ:
```
cd /home/f5/f5-ansible-bigiq-as3-demo
./ansible_helper ansible-playbook /ansible/bigiq_as3_move_apps.yml -i /ansible/hosts
```
Login as david and check on BIG-IQ the application has been correctly created.

Warning

If you want Paula to access the new Application called LAB_task1, David will need to assign the role LAB_task1 Manager

Task 9: Delete Task1 with their AS3 application services:
```
cd /home/f5/f5-ansible-bigiq-as3-demo
./cmd_bigiq_as3_apps_creation.sh as3_bigiq_task09_delete_task1_app.json
```
Login as david on BIG-IQ.

Here, we empty the tenant/partition Task1. This should remove those partitions from BOS-vBIGIP01.termmarc.com. The relevant Apps should also disappear from BIG-IQ.

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