atc_deploy

Ansible Role: F5 automation tool chain (ATC) deploy declaration

This role deploys declaratives to installed automation tool chain services (AS3, DO, TS) on your BIG-IP or (AS3, DO) on your BIG-IQ. You would use this role to post declarations to the following BIG-IP or BIG-IQ automation tool chain services: application services 3 extension, declaritive onboarding, or telemetry streaming (BIG-IP only). Information regarding these services along with example declaritives is available on f5-cloud-docs.

  • note: this role determines which service to use by the referenced declarative which should contain the service class. For example, AS3 declaratives will contain a service pointer using key "class": with value "AS3" in json declared file Example. Be sure to define service pointers at the beginning of your declaration.

Requirements

Corresponding ATC service must be installed on BIG-IP or BIG-IQ prior to deploying declaration.

Role Variables

Available variables are listed below. For their default values, see defaults/main.yml:

Variable Required Default Example Info
provider yes - provider: "{{ provider }}" The provider dictionary is used in the role to define connection details to the BIG-IP in the same way F5 Modules work.
atc_method no GET atc_method: GET
  • atc_method accepted values include [POST, GET] for all services, and [DELETE]for AS3 only.
  • atc_deploy role currently does not support AS3 PATCH method.
  • atc_declaration yes - atc_declaration: "{{ lookup('template', 'decl.json') }}" Mutually exclusive with atc_declaration_file and atc_declaration_url
    atc_declaration_file yes - atc_declaration_file: "files/decl.json" Mutually exclusive with atc_declaration and atc_declaration_url
    atc_declaration_url yes - atc_declaration_url: "https://testurl/as3.json" Mutually exclusive with atc_declaration and atc_declaration_file
    atc_service no - atc_service: AS3
  • If a declaration is provided, this will auto select based on the payload
  • AS3
  • Device
  • Telemetry
  • atc_delay yes 30 atc_delay: 30 Seconds between retries when checking if an Async call is complete
    atc_retries yes 10 atc_retries: 10 Number times the role will check for a finished task before failing
    as3_tenant no - as3_tenant: Tenant1 Starting with AS3 3.14.0, you have the option of using POST to the /declare endpoint with a specific tenant in the URI (for example …/declare/tenant1). This only updates the tenant you specified, even if there are other tenants in the declaration. This can be useful in some automation scenarios involving AS3.
    as3_show yes base as3_show: base You can use the following URL query parameters for POST, GET, or DELETE Required base means system returns the declaration as originally deployed (but with secrets like passphrases encrypted), full returns the declaration with all default schema properties populated, expanded includes all URLs, base64s, and other references expanded to their final static values.
  • Acceptable values include: base, full, expanded
  • as3_showhash no - as3_showhash: true You can use the following URL query parameters for POST (Note: showHash for POST was introduced in AS3 3.14.0 and will only work on 3.14.0 and later): This was introduced as a protection mechanism for tenants in a declaration (previously you had to use a separate GET request to retrieve the Optimistic lock). If you set “showHash=true”, the results include an optimisticLockKey for each tenant. Attempts to change/update any of the tenants without the correct optimisticLockKey will fail.
    check_teem yes true check_teem: true Updates AS3 declaration to include Ansible version for telemetry.

    Dependencies

    None.

    Examples

    GET AT Declaration

    - name: GET AT Declaration
      hosts: bigip
    
      tasks:
    
        - name: ATC GET
          include_role:
            name: atc_deploy
          vars:
            atc_method: GET
            # Select the service as AS3, Device, or Telemetry
            atc_service: AS3
            provider:
              server: 192.168.1.245
              server_port: "443"
              user: admin
              password: admin
              validate_certs: "false"
              auth_provider: tmos
    
    - debug: var=atc_GET_status
    

    POST AT Declaration

    - name: POST AT Declaration
      hosts: bigip
    
      tasks:
    
        - name: ATC POST
          include_role:
            name: atc_deploy
          vars:
            atc_method: POST
            atc_declaration: "{{ lookup('template', 'decl.json') }}"
            # atc_declaration_file: files/as3.json
            # atc_declaration_url: "https://testurl/as3.json"
            atc_declaration_file: "files/as3.json"
            atc_delay: 10
            atc_retries: 5
            provider:
              server: 192.168.1.245
              server_port: "443"
              user: admin
              password: admin
              validate_certs: "false"
              auth_provider: tmos
    
        # atc_AS3_status, atc_DO_status , atc_TS_status
        - debug: var=atc_AS3_status
    

    License

    Apache

    Author Information

    This role was created in 2019 by Greg Crosby.

    Credits

    A special thanks to Vinnie Mazza (@vinnie357) for the ansible playbook examples.

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    Allows declaration to be sent to automation tool chain service (AS3, DO, or TS)

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