Lab 1 - Basic BIG-IP Administration with Terraform

You will walk through a typical device onboarding workflow to deploy base network and app services configurations

Important

  • Estimated completion time: 30 minutes

Access Lab Environment

  1. Log in to F5’s [Unified Demo Framework Portal]

    • Select F5 or Non F5 User then enter credentials.
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  2. Launch the Channel - F5 and Terraform Basics course

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  3. Click Join course, then click Deployment to access your lab envirnment.

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  4. Click the ACCESS dropdown on the client ubuntu server, then click VS CODE. We will use this for making edits to the terraform files

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  5. Open a New Terminal in VS Code to run the lab commands in the bottom window

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  6. Update Terraform in VS Code to version 13.x

    • run terraform -version in VS Code terminal on bottom of window
    • if terraform version is v0.13.2 then skip to step 7 else continue with upgrade process
    • wget --quiet --continue --show-progress https://releases.hashicorp.com/terraform/0.13.2/terraform_0.13.2_linux_amd64.zip
    • sudo unzip terraform_0.13.2_linux_amd64.zip
    • sudo mv terraform /usr/local/bin
    • terraform -version to confirm v0.13.2
    • rm terraform_0.13.2_linux_amd64.zip
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  7. Under components, click the access dropdown on the client ubuntu server, then click Firefox

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  8. Login to BIG-IP management interface (https://10.1.1.6) admin : F5d3vops$

    Note

    Ctrl+c and Ctrl+v does not work with the firefox web instance. You must paste into firefox cliboard and submit, then rtclk paste to paste as shown in the images below

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