Introduction — F5 Pipeline documentation

Introduction

This training focuses on F5’s Automation and Orchestration Toolchain. Each component of this toolchain will be used during this lab to simulate an applications’s lifecycle and the services required on a BIG-IP required to deliver that application.

A self-contained lab environment has been created in UDF for use with this training. You also have the option to use Using the included set of tools and services, a fully functional CI/CD pipeline has been built for use in the lab and as a practical customer demo.

Content

The lab has been broken out by toolchain service as outlined below.

Note

There are not necessarily step-by-step instructions to complete each section. Time to take off those training wheels!

  • Declarative Onboarding (DO)
    • Bootstrapping BIG-IP
  • Application Services Extension (AS3)
    • Service configuration
  • Telemetry Streaming (TS)
    • Application monitoring

Lab Access

Please use the latest revision of the UDF blueprint. The lab services can be accessed via the Windows Jump Box or locally with the exposed TMUI, SSH, API and application links configured within deployment.