Hands-On F5 Terraform Automation Workshop
Event Overview
Join World Wide Technology for a hands-on workshop around F5 Terraform Automation Lab with our industry experts and the value it brings to your organization! Infrastructure-as-Code is a significant movement across the networking industry that builds on core principles within the DevOps movement that favor treating everything possible "as code." This workshop is a hands-on overview to introduce the concept of IaC (Infrastructure-as-Code) for managing F5 application services using BIG-IP Terraform Provider.
What to expect
- Perform initial configuration of a standalone BIG-IP. We will be learning how to automate the initial setup of objects like DNS, NTP, vlan's, self-ip's etc. using terraform provider.
- Update the terraform deployment to setup a standard HTTP virtual server in a imperative way.
- Utilize F5 AS3 and use declarative approach in setting up configuration objects.
- Provision BIG-IP Modules and deploy security policy.
- Utilize F5's DO (Declarative Onboarding) model to perform initial setup of BIG-IP objects using a declarative json file.
Goals and Objectives
The purpose of this workshop is to introduce Terraform as an automation tool to setup & manage BIG-IP configurations. Participants will have opportunity to interact with WWT automation experts and collaborate further to discuss specific use cases as per their environment.
Who should attend?
System Administrators, Network Engineers, Network Architects.