F5 Automation with Red Hat Ansible Workshop

Overview

This instructor-led workshop is intended to demonstrate Ansible's capabilities using self-paced exercises. Attendees will learn the basics of Ansible Playbook development as it relates to automating F5 BIG-IP, utilizing the F5 BIG-IP Ansible modules, and integrating the modules with Ansible Tower.

Agenda

8:30 a.m.	Registration opens
9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.	Morning Sessions Introduction and settle in Ansible Engine How Ansible Works and its key components Exploring the lab environment Writing your first playbook Registering output & tags, module documentation
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.	Lunch
1:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.	Afternoon Sessions Using Ansible to gather data from F5 BIG-IP Using Ansible to configure VIPS, Pools, Nodes etc. Automating Day2 tasks Advanced error handling Application deployment using declarative API’s

Exercises

Ansible F5 Exercises

Exercise 1.0 - Exploring the lab environment
Exercise 1.0 - Exploring the lab environment
Exercise 1.1 - Using Ansible to gather data from F5 BIG-IP
Exercise 1.2 - Adding nodes to F5 BIG-IP
Exercise 1.3 - Adding a load balancing pool
Exercise 1.4 - Adding members to a pool
Exercise 1.5 - Adding a virtual server
Exercise 1.6 - Deleting F5 BIG-IP Configuration
Exercise 1.7 - Advanced: Error Handling

Ansible F5 Operational Exercises

Exercise 2.0 - Disabling a pool member

Ansible F5 AS3 Exercises

Exercise 3.0 - Intro to AS3
Exercise 3.1 - Operational Change with AS3
Exercise 3.2 - Deleting a Web Application

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Course Details

Skills Gained

Red Hat Ansible Engine

Basic understanding of what Ansible is and how it works with networking devices
Running ad-hoc Ansible commands from a command line
Building and execution of playbooks to accomplish basic router connectivity
Use Case: Backing up network configurations
Use Case: Create a GRE tunnel
Use Case: Additional router configurations
Introduction to Roles: Making playbooks reusable and platform agnostic

Red Hat Ansible Tower

Installing Ansible Tower
Configuring Ansible Tower
Use Case: Creating and running a job template

Who Can Benefit

This workshop is geared toward network operators, network engineers, cloud administrators, DevOps engineers, security professionals and anyone interested in network automation.

Requirements for Attendees

An internet connection is required. Attendees must come with a laptop with admin rights and the ability to SSH to a lab environment hosted in a public cloud.
Attendees should have working knowledge of using SSH and command line shell (BASH) as well as a conceptual understanding of linux system administration (how to use simple commands like cd, ls, mv, mkdir, etc).
Attendees should have working knowledge of at least one Linux text editor (nano, pico, vi/vim, zile, emacs) with which to write Ansible playbooks.