bigip_provision - Manage BIG-IP module provisioning.

New in version 2.4.

Synopsis

  • Manage BIG-IP module provisioning. This module will only provision at the standard levels of Dedicated, Nominal, and Minimum.

Requirements (on host that executes module)

  • f5-sdk >= 2.2.3

Options

parameter required default choices comments
level
 no nominal
  • dedicated
  • nominal
  • minimum
Sets the provisioning level for the requested modules. Changing the level for one module may require modifying the level of another module. For example, changing one module to dedicated requires setting all others to none. Setting the level of a module to none means that the module is not run.
module
 yes
  • am
  • afm
  • apm
  • asm
  • avr
  • fps
  • gtm
  • ilx
  • lc
  • ltm
  • pem
  • sam
  • swg
The module to provision in BIG-IP.
password
 yes
The password for the user account used to connect to the BIG-IP. This option can be omitted if the environment variable F5_PASSWORD is set.
server
 yes
The BIG-IP host. This option can be omitted if the environment variable F5_SERVER is set.
server_port
(added in 2.2)
 no 443
The BIG-IP server port. This option can be omitted if the environment variable F5_SERVER_PORT is set.
state
 no present
  • present
  • absent
The state of the provisioned module on the system. When present, guarantees that the specified module is provisioned at the requested level provided that there are sufficient resources on the device (such as physical RAM) to support the provisioned module. When absent, de-provision the module.
user
 yes
The username to connect to the BIG-IP with. This user must have administrative privileges on the device. This option can be omitted if the environment variable F5_USER is set.
validate_certs
(added in 2.0)
 no True
  • True
  • False
If no, SSL certificates will not be validated. This should only be used on personally controlled sites using self-signed certificates. This option can be omitted if the environment variable F5_VALIDATE_CERTS is set.

Examples

- name: Provision PEM at "nominal" level
  bigip_provision:
      server: "lb.mydomain.com"
      module: "pem"
      level: "nominal"
      password: "secret"
      user: "admin"
      validate_certs: "no"
  delegate_to: localhost

- name: Provision a dedicated SWG. This will unprovision every other module
  bigip_provision:
      server: "lb.mydomain.com"
      module: "swg"
      password: "secret"
      level: "dedicated"
      user: "admin"
      validate_certs: "no"
  delegate_to: localhost

Return Values

Common return values are documented here Return Values, the following are the fields unique to this module:

name description returned type sample
level
The new provisioning level of the module.
 changed string minimum

Notes

Note

  • Requires the f5-sdk Python package on the host. This is as easy as pip install f5-sdk.

Status

This module is flagged as preview which means that it is not guaranteed to have a backwards compatible interface.

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