Simple BIG-IP BlueGreen deployment using AS3 and Ansible in a Docker container based on the following implementation https://github.com/aknot242/bigip-blue-green

Dependencies

• Ansible 2.5+
• F5 Super NetOps Docker container https://hub.docker.com/r/f5usecases/f5-rs-container/

Prerequisites

• Docker must be installed
• Your Docker container must be able to connect to a specified BIG-IP over TCP port 443
• The BIG-IP must already be configured with a management address, and must already have a strong password set if using BIG-IP v14+

Usage

Update the ansible/inventory.yml accordingly for your environment. Run ./deploy.sh first. Once the container is up, cd as3-bluegreen then run ansible-playbook /home/snops/as3-bluegreen/ansible/playbooks/as3-bluegreen.yml inside the container.

Load Testing

This project uses the Locust framework. For ease of setup and execution, Docker is utilized to host the testing runtime. Make sure Docker is installed on your host. Update the content checks in the locustfile.py and update the URL in run-load-test.sh. To execute:

cd load
./run-load-test.sh

Once the Docker container is running, open http://localhost:8089/ in your browser to configure the load test parameters.