F5 and Terraform Demo Deployment

• Terraform BIG-IP Provider documentation
• More complex examples of F5 Terraform JeffGiroux/f5-terraform

Terraform instalation

1. macOS: # brew install terraform

BIG-IP Preparation

1. Console

• Login as root, set the password
• # config -> set the static IP and Default GW
• # tmsh modify sys global-settings mgmt-dhcp disabled
• # tmsh save sys config

2. WebUI

• Login as admin, set the new password (or # tmsh modify auth user admin password <password>)
• License the box (as TF can't license F5, only via BIG-IQ License Manager)

Examples

$ cd ./example1
$ terraform init # initialize the config and download providers
$ terraform plan # build the plan
$ terraform apply # apply the configuration
$ terraform destroy # remove configuration

./example1

• basic example with variables included directly in the config, please validate the provider configuration before use
• BIG-IP Configuration includes networking, DNS, NTP, VS and Pool

./example2

• pretty much the same example as the ./example1, the difference is usage of iApp defined as JSON to configure the VS, Pool and whole App configuration

./example3

• an ./example1 based demo
• variables stored in .tfvars file
  • please fill the correct credentials and options into terraform.tfvars
• besides the BIG-IP, TF will also create a DNS record in Cloudflare
• as example of linking values for the Cloudflare DNS A Record is used the bigip_ltm_virtual_server.http.destination value

Terraform Notes

Remove Virtual Server Configuration

$ terraform destroy -target=bigip_ltm_virtual_server.http

Remove Pool attachment configuration

$ terraform destroy -target=bigip_ltm_pool_attachment.attach_node

Remove Pool Configuration

$ terraform destroy -target=bigip_ltm_pool.pool

Remove All remaining Configuration

$ terraform destroy