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Getting Started

The purpose of this guide is to provide a sampling of hands-on exercises to better understand deployment of BIG-IP using Ansible.

Lab Topology

Each student will have a BIG-IP VE environment with IP addressing as below:

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Connect to lab

Accessing the lab environment.

  1. Open a browser and go to http://training.f5agility.com. Enter your Class# and Student# as provided by your instructor.

  2. Look for the xubuntu-jumpbox-vxx. You will use the xubuntu jumpbox for all the labs. (see below)

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  3. You can click on RDP to RDP to the Xubuntu jumpbox or you can select the CONSOLE link and access the jumpbox via your browser. The CONSOLE ** link requires you turn off pop-up blockers.**

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Component VLAN/IP Address(es) Credentials
Jump Host
  • Management: 10.1.1.51
  • External: 10.1.10.51
  • f5student/f5DEMOs4u
Ansible Host
  • Management: 10.1.1.150
  • External: 10.1.10.150
  • Internal: 10.1.20.150
  • root/password
BIG-IP01
  • Management: 10.1.1.245
  • External: 10.1.10.245
  • Internal: 10.1.20.245
  • admin/admin
Lamp Host
  • Management: 10.1.1.252
  • External: 10.1.10.252
  • Internal: 10.1.20.252
  • root/default

Connect to BIG-IP admin gui

  1. From Jumpbox, open BIG-IP Admin GUI
    • Open Chrome browser found on launchpad at bottom of screen
    • Click on bigip01 on favorites bar
    • Login with username: admin and password: admin

Connecting to ansible host.

  1. From Jumpbox, SSH to Ansible host.
    • Open Terminal Emulator Window found on launchpad at bottom of screen
    • Type ssh root@10.1.1.150
    • Type yes when asked “Are you sure…”
  2. Change directory to /root/ansible/mod1.
    • Type cd ansible/mod1
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