Introduction to Managing F5 BIG-IP with HashiCorp Terraform

Event Overview

HashiCorp Terraform is an infrastructure as code utility used to define and provision IT infrastructure in a human readable language. Terraform enables IT team across organizational silos to automate the building, changing, and versioning of IT infrastructure to support custom solutions and business use cases predictably and easily. Join this hands-on workshop to take the first steps in learning how HashiCorp Terraform can be utilized to provision and manage F5 load balancing and security infrastructure.

What to expect

During this hands-on workshop, experts from World Wide Technology will demonstrate how HashiCorp Terraform can be used to programmatically configure devices and deliver applications across multiple platforms. During this hands-on workshop, you will learn the following concepts:
  • How to use HashiCorp Terraform to automate F5 BIG-IP configuration changes such as VIPs and Pools
  • How to integrate HashiCorp Terraform with the F5 Automation Toolchain(AS3 and DO) to accelerate the provisioning and configuration of F5 BIG-IP devices
  • How HashiCorp Consul service can be used to simplify the management of F5 pool members

Goals and Objectives

The goal of this workshop is to enable developers, engineers, and architects in taking the first steps in adopting infrastructure as code practices using Terraform in managing their IT ecosystem.

Who should attend?

network engineers, network architects, F5 administrators, DevOps professionals, site reliability engineers