F5 Ansible Lab

This is a 1h30 lab in order to get familiar with Ansible and F5 Ansible modules.

We will have a short overview of Ansible, its structure and the most important components and concepts.

Table of Contents:

introduction

• What is Ansible?
• What is an ansible module?
• Module Documentation and syntax:

labs

• Task 1. Create an inventory
• Task 2. Create a simple playbook
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Create playbook
• Task 3. Use an existing local ansible role
  • Installing Roles
  • Search for Roles
  • List installed roles
  • Get more information about a role
• Task 4. Create an ansible role
  • 1. Create the Role Structure
  • 2. Create the Role Variables
  • Note:
  • 3. Create the Role Tasks
  • 4. (Optional)Create your role meta file
  • 5. Securing sensitive information
  • Running your playbook:
• Task5: Create a Jenkins Freestyle Job
  • 0. Clean your Load Balancing configuration
  • 1. Create a new Job
  • 2. Configure the job
  • 3. Run the freestyle job
• Task6: Create a pipeline as script
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Configure Pipeline
• Task7: Attach an ASM Policy dynamically using a Jenkins pipeline
  • 1. Create a new Task
  • 2. Run your task
  • 3. (optional) Link this pipeline as Downstream job on the previous pipeline