The Automating BIG-IP with Ansible training course introduces network administrators, operators, and DevOps engineers to the foundational and F5-specific technologies required to automate BIG-IP. You will gain exposure to multiple technologies for a variety of use cases and will have hands-on experience that leave them better prepared to automate the onboarding and configuration of BIG-IP.
By attending Automating BIG-IP with Ansible workshop, delegates will learn to:
- Review Automation and DevOps concepts
- Describe the components of iControl REST calls and how they interact with BIG-IP
- Stand up and configure BIG-IP applications using iControl REST
- Describe the major components of Ansible and how they work together to configure BIG-IP
- Use flow control elements such as conditionals and looping in Ansible Playbooks
- Onboard and configure BIG-IP applications using Ansible
Familiar with and be able to configure basic BIG-IP elements such as:
- Virtual Servers
- Pools, Pool Members and Nodes
- Pool Monitors
- Basic Virtual Server Profiles
- Layer 2 Ethernet and ARP networking concepts
- Layer 3 and 4 TCP/IP networking concepts, including IP addressing and subnetting
- Layer 7 HTTP networking concepts
- Linux command line and basic Linux commands
- HTML
- JavaScript or NodeJS
- Python
- Bash
The Automating BIG-IP with Ansible class is ideal for:
- Network administrators and operators and DevOps engineers interested in automating tasks on BIG-IP systems in their public and private Clouds as well as in their datacenter infrastructure.