bigiq_application_fasthttp – Manages BIG-IQ FastHTTP applications

New in version 2.6.

Synopsis

• Manages BIG-IQ applications used for load balancing an HTTP-based application, speeding up connections and reducing the number of connections to the back-end server.

Parameters

Parameter		Choices/Defaults	Comments
add_analytics boolean		Choices: no ← yes	Collects statistics of the BIG-IP that the application is deployed to. This parameter is only relevant when specifying a service_environment which is a BIG-IP; not an SSG.
description string			Description of the application.
inbound_virtual dictionary			Settings to configure the virtual which will receive the inbound connection. This virtual will be used to host the HTTP endpoint of the application.
	address string / required		Specifies destination IP address information to which the virtual server sends traffic. This parameter is required when creating a new application.
	netmask string / required		Specifies the netmask to associate with the given destination. This parameter is required when creating a new application.
	port string	Default: 80	The port that the virtual listens for connections on. When creating a new application, if this parameter is not specified, the default value of 80 will be used.
name string / required			Name of the new application.
provider dictionary added in 2.5			A dict object containing connection details.
	auth_provider string		Configures the auth provider for to obtain authentication tokens from the remote device. This option is really used when working with BIG-IQ devices.
	password string / 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 string / required		The BIG-IP host. You may omit this option by setting the environment variable F5_SERVER.
	server_port integer	Default: 443	The BIG-IP server port. You may omit this option by setting the environment variable F5_SERVER_PORT.
	ssh_keyfile path		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 integer		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 string	Choices: cli rest ←	Configures the transport connection to use when connecting to the remote device.
	user string / 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.
servers list			A list of servers that the application is hosted on. If you are familiar with other BIG-IP setting, you might also refer to this list as the list of pool members. When creating a new application, at least one server is required.
	address string / required		The IP address of the server.
	port string	Default: 80	The port of the server. When creating a new application and specifying a server, if this parameter is not provided, the default of 80 will be used.
service_environment string			Specifies the name of service environment that the application will be deployed to. When creating a new application, this parameter is required. The service environment type will be discovered by this module automatically. Therefore, it is crucial that you maintain unique names for items in the different service environment types (at this time, SSGs and BIGIPs).
state string		Choices: absent present ←	The state of the resource on the system. When present, guarantees that the resource exists with the provided attributes. When absent, removes the resource from the system.
wait boolean		Choices: no yes ←	If the module should wait for the application to be created, deleted or updated.

Notes

Note

• This module does not support updating of your application (whether deployed or not). If you need to update the application, the recommended practice is to remove and re-create.

• This module will not work on BIGIQ version 6.1.x or greater.

• For more information on using Ansible to manage F5 Networks devices see https://www.ansible.com/integrations/networks/f5.

• 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: Load balance an HTTP application on port 80 on BIG-IP
  bigiq_application_fasthttp:
    name: my-app
    description: Fast HTTP
    service_environment: my-ssg
    servers:
      - address: 1.2.3.4
        port: 8080
      - address: 5.6.7.8
        port: 8080
    inbound_virtual:
      name: foo
      address: 2.2.2.2
      netmask: 255.255.255.255
      port: 80
    provider:
      password: secret
      server: lb.mydomain.com
      user: admin
    state: present
  delegate_to: localhost

Return Values

Common return values are documented here, the following are the fields unique to this module:

Key		Returned	Description
description string		changed	The new description of the application of the resource. Sample: My application
inbound_virtual_destination string		changed	The destination of the virtual that was created. Sample: 6.7.8.9
inbound_virtual_netmask string		changed	The network mask of the provided inbound destination. Sample: 255.255.255.0
inbound_virtual_port integer		changed	The port the inbound virtual address listens on. Sample: 80
servers complex		changed	List of servers, and their ports, that make up the application. Sample: hash/dictionary of values
	address string	changed	The IP address of the server. Sample: 2.3.4.5
	port integer	changed	The port that the server listens on. Sample: 8080
service_environment string		changed	The environment which the service was deployed to. Sample: my-ssg1

Status

• This module is not guaranteed to have a backwards compatible interface. [preview]

• This module is maintained by an Ansible Partner. [certified]

Authors

• Tim Rupp (@caphrim007)

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