bigip_wait – Wait for a BIG-IP condition before continuing

New in version 2.5.

Synopsis

  • You can wait for BIG-IP to be “ready”. By “ready”, we mean that BIG-IP is ready to accept configuration.
  • This module can take into account situations where the device is in the middle of rebooting due to a configuration change.

Requirements

The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.

  • f5-sdk >= 3.0.16

Parameters

Parameter Choices/Defaults Comments
delay
-
Default:
0
Number of seconds to wait before starting to poll.
msg
-
This overrides the normal error message from a failure to meet the required conditions.
password
- / required
The password for the user account used to connect to the BIG-IP.
You may omit this option by setting the environment variable F5_PASSWORD.

aliases: pass, pwd
provider
-
added in 2.5
 Default:
null
A dict object containing connection details.
password
- / required
The password for the user account used to connect to the BIG-IP.
You may omit this option by setting the environment variable F5_PASSWORD.

aliases: pass, pwd
server
- / required
The BIG-IP host.
You may omit this option by setting the environment variable F5_SERVER.
server_port
-
Default:
443
The BIG-IP server port.
You may omit this option by setting the environment variable F5_SERVER_PORT.
ssh_keyfile
-
Specifies the SSH keyfile to use to authenticate the connection to the remote device. This argument is only used for cli transports.
You may omit this option by setting the environment variable ANSIBLE_NET_SSH_KEYFILE.
timeout
-
Default:
10
Specifies the timeout in seconds for communicating with the network device for either connecting or sending commands. If the timeout is exceeded before the operation is completed, the module will error.
transport
- / required
    Choices:
  • rest
  • cli ←
Configures the transport connection to use when connecting to the remote device.
user
- / required
The username to connect to the BIG-IP with. This user must have administrative privileges on the device.
You may omit this option by setting the environment variable F5_USER.
validate_certs
boolean
    Choices:
  • no
  • yes ←
If no, SSL certificates are not validated. Use this only on personally controlled sites using self-signed certificates.
You may omit this option by setting the environment variable F5_VALIDATE_CERTS.
server
- / required
The BIG-IP host.
You may omit this option by setting the environment variable F5_SERVER.
server_port
-
added in 2.2
 Default:
443
The BIG-IP server port.
You may omit this option by setting the environment variable F5_SERVER_PORT.
sleep
-
Default:
1
Number of seconds to sleep between checks, before 2.3 this was hardcoded to 1 second.
timeout
-
Default:
7200
Maximum number of seconds to wait for.
When used without other conditions it is equivalent of just sleeping.
The default timeout is deliberately set to 2 hours because no individual REST API.
user
- / required
The username to connect to the BIG-IP with. This user must have administrative privileges on the device.
You may omit this option by setting the environment variable F5_USER.
validate_certs
boolean
added in 2.0
    Choices:
  • no
  • yes ←
If no, SSL certificates are not validated. Use this only on personally controlled sites using self-signed certificates.
You may omit this option by setting the environment variable F5_VALIDATE_CERTS.

Notes

Note

  • For more information on using Ansible to manage F5 Networks devices see https://www.ansible.com/integrations/networks/f5.
  • Requires the f5-sdk Python package on the host. This is as easy as pip install f5-sdk.
  • Requires BIG-IP software version >= 12.
  • The F5 modules only manipulate the running configuration of the F5 product. To ensure that BIG-IP specific configuration persists to disk, be sure to include at least one task that uses the bigip_config module to save the running configuration. Refer to the module’s documentation for the correct usage of the module to save your running configuration.

Examples

- name: Wait for BIG-IP to be ready to take configuration
  bigip_wait:
    password: secret
    server: lb.mydomain.com
    user: admin
  delegate_to: localhost

- name: Wait a maximum of 300 seconds for BIG-IP to be ready to take configuration
  bigip_wait:
    timeout: 300
    password: secret
    server: lb.mydomain.com
    user: admin
  delegate_to: localhost

- name: Wait for BIG-IP to be ready, don't start checking for 10 seconds
  bigip_wait:
    delay: 10
    password: secret
    server: lb.mydomain.com
    user: admin
  delegate_to: localhost

Status

  • This module is guaranteed to have no backward incompatible interface changes going forward. [stableinterface]
  • This module is maintained by an Ansible Partner. [certified]

Authors

  • Tim Rupp (@caphrim007)

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