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Lab 5.3: Onboard BIG-IQ in Azure¶
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Estimated time to complete: 25 minutes
There are different ways to onboard BIG-IQ in Azure:
- Using the F5 Trial Azure Resource Manager Template
This Azure Resource Manager (ARM) creates two BIG-IQ VE instances:
- a BIG-IQ Centralized Management (CM) standalone instance to configure and orchestrate instances of BIG-IP VE
- a BIG-IQ Data Collection Device (DCD) to store analytics data.
- Using the F5 License Manager ARM Template
This Azure Resource Manager launches and configure a standalone BIG-IQ VE or two BIG-IQ VEs in a clustered (hot-standby) configuration.
- Using the F5 BIG-IQ Setup Documentation
Follow the documentation to bring up the BIG-IQ CM and DCD in Azure.
Once the BIG-IQ VE are up and running, Ansible Galaxy Role used in Lab 1 can be used to onboard the BIG-IQ and DCD (bigiq_onboard and register_dcd)
