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:sparkles: An awesome list of tools that will help you with your F5 products :sparkles:

An awesome list of tools that will help you with your F5 products

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Contents

• Contents
• Ansible
• Automation Toolchain
• DevOps / CICD
• Distributed Cloud
• iHealth
• Terraform
• Ops tools
• Video
• VS Code
• Related

Ansible

• Tips and Tricks - This article links several videos that demonstrate step by step how to implement automation with Ansible.
• Manage Infrastructure and Services Lifecycle with Terraform and Ansible - Overview and demo putting all the pieces of infrastructure and configuration automation.

Automation Toolchain

• Manage Infrastructure and Services Lifecycle with Terraform and Ansible - Overview and demo putting all the pieces of infrastructure and configuration automation.
• JOURNEYS - JOURNEYS is an application designed to assist F5 Customers with migrating a BIG-IP configuration to a new F5 device and enable new ways of migrating.
• F5 BIG-IP Automation Config Converter - F5 BIG-IP Automation Config Converter (BIG-IP ACC) is an app written in Node.js that converts a BIG-IP configuration into an AS3 declaration, distributed as an easy-to-use docker image.
• tmconfjs - Converts a BIG-IP configuration file (eg. bigip.conf) to JSON using the F5 BIG-IP Automation Config Converter parser. Written in javascript and available as a simple to use docker container image.

DevOps / CICD

• TesTcl - TesTcl is a Tcl library for unit testing iRules which are used when configuring F5 BIG-IP devices.
• irulescan - Static security analyzer for iRules (and your CI/CD pipelines) also available as a GitHub Action.
• tcl-smock - A simple TCL mock implementation primarily designed for unit testing of F5 iApps and tmsh scripts.

Distributed Cloud

• xc-app-services-tf - Mike Coleman examples of deploying app services in F5 XC with Terraform
• Kubernetes architecture options with F5 XC - This article explores four major architectures in ascending order of sophistication and advantages

iHealth

• iHAC - iHAC aims to be a simple and easy to use interface to a subset of features provided by F5 iHealth.

Terraform

• xc-app-services-tf - Mike Coleman examples of deploying app services in F5 XC with Terraform
• Manage Infrastructure and Services Lifecycle with Terraform and Ansible - Overview and demo putting all the pieces of infrastructure and configuration automation.

Ops tools

• f5-demo-httpd - Simple NGINX Demo App in a Container useful for testing
• httpbin - Ever heard of httpbin.org? This is a containerized and improved version of httpbin with added features running on nginx, unit, httpd or gunicorn!
• f5-demo-radius - Need to test authentication against Radius but don't want to setup freeRADIUS? This is a pre-configured container ready to authenticate your BIG-IP Admins!
• tacacs_server - Need to test authentication against TACACS but don't want to setup it up yourself? This is a Docker image/container setup for testing tacacs+ with F5 BIG-IP.

Video

• Mark Dittmer's YouTube Channel - Kubernetes Ingress and Automation of BIG-IP

VS Code

• The F5 Extension - This extension supercharges your abilities to work with the automation toolchain, iRules, and direct connects to BIG-IP devices.
• F5 Networks iRules - This extension supports syntax and intelliSense support for iRule events, commands and statements, up to BIG-IP v17.1.
• vscode-iApp on GitHub - iApp extension for Visual Studio Code. This extension gives Tcl based iApp language support for Visual Studio Code including syntax and intelliSense support for iApp events, commands and statements.
• vscode-f5-fast - F5 vscode extension dedicated to F5 FAST template authoring and deployment.

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