f5-ansible-ts

Materials for Tech Summit Ansible Class

Introduction to Ansible

This introductory class covers the following topics:

• Introduction to the Ansible Automation Tool
• Introduction to YAML
• Introduction to Ansible's variables
• High Availabilty with Ansible

Lab Topology and environment

We are leveraging the Introduction to Automation & Orchestration Lab

The Lab Topology and Environment Information Can be found at: Lab Topology and Environment

Directions to startup and login to the UDF demo environment can be found at: F5 Unified Demo Framework(UDF)

Launch Docker Container on the Linux Server

cd /home/ubuntu; wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mcgonagle/f5-ansible-ts/master/misc/user_repos.json

user_repos.json

{
  "repos": [
    {
      "name":"f5-ansible-ts",
      "repo":"https://github.com/mcgonagle/f5-ansible-ts.git",
      "branch":"master",
      "skip":false,
      "skipinstall":true
    }
  ]
}

F5 Super NetOps/DevOps Tools Container

sudo docker run -p 8080:80 -p 2222:22 --rm -it -v /home/ubuntu/user_repos.json:/tmp/user_repos.json -e SNOPS_GH_BRANCH=develop f5devcentral/f5-super-netops-container:develop-ansible

Overview of the Ansible Environment

• ansible.cfg - Ansible config file
• group_vars - Place to store variables applicable to groups such as data centers
• host_vars - Place to store variables specific to hosts
• hosts - Hosts inventory list
• password.yml - ansible-vault password file, password to unlock is "password"
• playbooks - Ansible playbooks of "plays" for interacting with our BIG-IP systems
• roles - More organized than playbooks
• run_ansible.sh - Shell helper script for running playbooks

YAML Overview

Useful vimrc macro for editing YaML files

autocmd FileType yaml setlocal ai ts=2 sw=2 et colorcolumn=1,3,5,7,9,11,13 nu

To turn off colorized lines

set cc=

Onboarding - Configuring VLAN and Self-IPs

./run_ansible.sh -i

Lab 1 - Instantiate a VIP, Pool, Node with Playbook Variables

./run_ansible.sh -1

Variables and Roles Lab

Ansible Variables and their Precedence

./run_ansbile -v

iRules with variable Templating

./run_ansible --irule

iApps with variable Templating

./run_ansible --iapp

HA Demo

ansible-playbook playbooks/create_HA.yml --ask-vault-pass -e @password.yml -vvv

App SVCS iApp with variable Templating

License

GNU LESSER GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE

Version 3, 29 June 2007