2.2.2. Lab – BIG-IP on-boarding¶

When it comes to deployment of multiple physical or virtual BIG-IP devices, organizations can use Puppet F5 modules to automate all the initial BIG-IP onboarding tasks such as device licensing, DNS and NTP settings, internal and external VLANs, self-IPs, and route domains.

Following is a sample Puppet manifest file (site.pp)

node bigip1 {

f5_globalsetting { '/Common/globalsetting':
  hostname  => "bigip-a.f5.local",
  gui_setup => "disabled",
}

f5_dns { '/Common/dns':
  name_servers => ["4.2.2.2", "8.8.8.8"],
  search       => ["localhost","f5.local"],
}

f5_ntp { '/Common/ntp':
  servers  => ['0.pool.ntp.org', '1.pool.ntp.org'],
  timezone => 'UTC',
}

}

Running the puppet will automatically onboard the new device.

$ sudo puppet device -v --user=root --trace
Info: starting applying configuration to bigip1 at https://10.1.1.246:443
Info: Retrieving pluginfacts
Info: Retrieving plugin
Info: Caching catalog for bigip1
Info: Applying configuration version '1530319476'
Notice: /Stage[main]/Main/Node[bigip1]/F5_dns[/Common/dns]/name_servers: defined 'name_servers' as '4.2.2.2 8.8.8.8'
Notice: /Stage[main]/Main/Node[bigip1]/F5_dns[/Common/dns]/search: defined 'search' as 'localhost f5.local'
Notice: /Stage[main]/Main/Node[bigip1]/F5_ntp[/Common/ntp]/servers: defined 'servers' as '0.pool.ntp.org 1.pool.ntp.org'
Info: Node[bigip1]: Unscheduling all events on Node[bigip1]
Notice: Applied catalog in 14.86 seconds

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