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What is BIG-IP Next?
BIG-IP Next LTM and BIG-IP Next WAF hit general availability back in October, and we hit the road for a tour around North America for its arrival party! Those who attended one of our F5 Academy sessions got a deep-dive presentation into BIG-IP Next conceptually, and then a lab session to work through migrating workloads and deploying them. I got to attend four of the events and discuss with so many fantastic community members what's old, what's new, what's borrowed, what's blue...no wait--this is no wedding! But for those of us who've been around the block with BIG-IP for a while, if not married to the tech, we definitely have a relationship with it, for better and worse, right? And that's earned. So any time something new, or in our case "Next" comes around, there's risk and fear involved personally. But don't fret. Seriously. It's going to be different in a lot of ways, but it's going to be great. And there are a crap-ton (thank you Mark Rober!) of improvements that once we all make it through the early stages, we'll embrace and wonder why we were even scared in the first place. So with all that said, will you come on the journey with me? In this first of many articles to come from me this year, I'll cover the high-level basics of what is so next about BIG-IP Next, and in future entries we'll be digging into the tech and learning together. BIG-IP and BIG-IP Next Conceptually - A Comparison BIG-IP has been around since before the turn of the century (which is almost old enough to rent a car here in the United States) and this year marks the 20 year anniversary of TMOS. That the traffic management microkernel (TMM) is still grokking like a boss all these years later is a testament to that early innovation! So whereas TMOS as a system is winding down, it's heart, TMM, will go on (cue sappy Celine Dion ditty in 3, 2, 1...) Let's take a look at what was and what is. With TMOS, the data plane and control plane compete for resources as it's one big system. With BIG-IP, the separation of duties is more explicit and intentionally designed to scale on the control plane. Also, the product modules are no longer either completely integrated in TMM or plugins to TMM, but rather, isolated to their own container structures. The image above might convey the idea that LTM or WAF or any of the other modules are single containers, but that's just shown that way for brevity. Each module is an array of containers. But don't let that scare you. The underlying kubernetes architecture is an abstraction that you may--but certainly are not required to--care about. TMM continues to be its awesome TMM self. The significant change operationally is how you interact with BIG-IP. With TMOS, historically you engage directly with each device, even if you have some other tools like BIG-IQ or third-party administration/automation platforms. With BIG-IP Next, everything is centralized on Central Manager, and the BIG-IP Next instances, whether they are running on rSeries, VELOS, or Virtual Edition, are just destinations for your workloads. In fact, outside of sidecar proxies for troubleshooting, instance logins won't even be supported! Yes, this is a paradigm shift. With BIG-IP Next, you will no longer be configuration-object focused. You will be application-focused. You'll still have the nerd-knobs to tweak and turn, but they'll be done within the context of an application declaration. If you haven't started your automation journey yet, you might not be familiar with AS3. It's been out now for years and works with BIG-IP to deploy applications declaratively. Instead of following a long pre-flight checklist with 87 steps to go from nothing to a working application, you simply define the parameters of your application in a blob of JSON data and click the easy button. For BIG-IP Next, this is the way. Now, in the Central Manager GUI, you might interact with FAST templates that deliver a more traditional view into configuring applications, but the underlying configuration engine is all AS3. For more, I hosted a series of streams in December to introduce AS3 Foundations, I highly recommend you take the time to digest the basics. Benefits I'm Excited About There are many and you can read about them on the product page on F5.com. But here's my short list: API-first. Period. BIG-IP had APIs with iControl from the era before APIs were even cool, but they were not first-class citizens. The resulting performance at scale requires effort to manage effectively. Not only performance, but feature parity among iControl REST, iControl SOAP, tmsh, and the GUI has been a challenge because of the way development occurred over time. Not so with BIG-IP Next. Everything is API-first, so all tooling is able to consume everything. This is huge! Migration assistance. Central Manager has the JOURNEYS tool on sterroids built-in to the experience. Upload your UCS, evaluate your applications to see what can be migrated without updates, and deploy! It really is that easy. Sure, there's work to be done for applications that aren't fully compatible yet, but it's a great start. You can do this piece (and I recommend that you do) before you even think about deploying a single instance just to learn what work you have ahead of you and what solutions you might need to adapt to be ready. Simplified patch/upgrade process. If you know, you know...patches are upgrades with BIG-IP, and not in place at that. This is drastically improved with BIG-IP Next! Because of the containerized nature of the system, individual containers can be targeted for patching, and depending on the container, may not even require a downtime consideration. Release cycle. A more frequent release cadence might terrify the customers among us that like to space out their upgrades to once every three years or so, but for the rest of us, feature delivery to the tune of weeks instead of twice per year is an exciting development (pun intended!) Features I'm Excited About Versioning for iRules and policies. For those of us who write/manage these things, this is huge! Typically I'd version by including it in the title, and I know some who set release tags in repos. With Central Manager, it's built-in and you can deploy iRules and polices by version and do diffs in place. I'm super excited about this! Did I mention the API? On the API front...it's one API, for all functionality. No digging and scraping through the GUI, tmsh, iControl REST, iControl SOAP, building out a node.js app to deploy a custom API endpoint with iControl LX, if even possible with some of the modules like APM or ASM. Nope, it's all there in one API. Glorious. Centralized dashboards. This one is for the Ops teams! Who among us has spent many a day building custom dashboards to consume stats from BIG-IPs across your org to have a single pane of glass to manage? I for one, and I'm thrilled to see system, application, and security data centralized for analysis and alerting. Log/metric streaming. And finally, logs and metrics! Telemetry Streaming from the F5 Automation Toolchain doesn't come forward in BIG-IP Next, but the ideas behind it do. If you need your data elsewhere from Central Manager, you can set up remote logging with OpenTelemetry (see the link in the resources listed below for a first published example of this.) There are some great features coming with DNS, Access, and all the other modules when they are released as well. I'll cover those when they hit general availability. Let's Go! In the coming weeks, I'll be releasing articles on installation and licensing walk-throughs for Central Manager and the instances, and content from our awesome group of authors is already starting to flow as well. Here are a few entries you can feast your eyes on, including an instance Proxmox installation: For the kubernetes crowd, BIG-IP Next CNF Solutions for RedHat Openshift Installing BIG-IP Next Instance on Proxmox Remote Logging with BIG-IP Next and OpenTelemetry Are you ready? Grab a trial license from your MyF5 dashboard and get going! And make sure to join us in the BIG-IP Next Academy group here on DevCentral. The launch team is actively engaged there for next-related questions/issues, so that's the place to be in your early journey! Also...if you want the ultimate jump-start for all things BIG-IP Next, join us at AppWorld 2024 in SanJose next month!
JRahm
Jan 19, 2024 Place Technical Articles
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Getting Started with BIG-IP Next: Installing Central Manager on VMware ESXi

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Getting Started with BIG-IP Next: Migrating an Application Workload
So far in this article series, the focus has been completely on the operational readiness of BIG-IP Next as a system. In this article, I'll walk through migrating an application currently supported by my classic BIG-IP running TMOS version 15.1.x. The application is just a simple instance of an NGINX web server fronted on LTM with basic load balancing, TLS offloading, and a basic WAF policy. There are a lot of screenshots in this article, which might seem overwhelming. Doing your own walkthrough, however, will put your mind at ease; it actually moves pretty quickly in realtime. Existing Application Workload on TMOS We'll start with the GUI representation of the application workload. It is secured with TLS, which is offloaded at the BIG-IP with a clientssl profile and not re-encrypted to the server. There are custom TCP and HTTP profiles defined as well as the aforementioned custom clientssl profile. Snat automap is enabled, and a specific VLAN is configured to allow connections. On the security tab, an application security policy is enabled, and the log illegal requests log profile is enabled as well. Finally, under resources, the default pool is defined and a policy is in place to map requests to the applied security policy. On the CLI, that virtual server along with all the other referenced BIG-IP objects are defined in the tmsh version of that configuration. ltm virtual nginx-vip-tls { destination 172.16.101.50:https ip-protocol tcp mask 255.255.255.255 policies { asm_auto_l7_policy__nginx-vip-tls { } } pool nginx-pool profiles { ASM_testpol { } cssl.TestSuite { context clientside } customHTTP { } customTCP { } websecurity { } } security-log-profiles { "Log illegal requests" } source-address-translation { type automap } vlans { vlan.br1 } vlans-enabled } ltm policy asm_auto_l7_policy__nginx-vip-tls { controls { asm } last-modified 2024-03-20:13:25:13 requires { http } rules { default { actions { 1 { asm enable policy /Common/testpol } } ordinal 1 } } status legacy strategy first-match } ltm pool nginx-pool { members { 172.16.102.5:http { address 172.16.102.5 session monitor-enabled state up } } monitor http } security bot-defense asm-profile ASM_testpol { app-service none clientside-in-use disabled flags 0 inject-javascript disabled persistent-data-validity-period 0 send-brute-force-challenge disabled send-javascript-challenge disabled send-javascript-efoxy disabled send-javascript-fingerprint disabled } ltm profile client-ssl cssl.TestSuite { app-service none cert-key-chain { default { cert default.crt key default.key } } cipher-group cg_TLSv1.3 ciphers none defaults-from clientssl inherit-ca-certkeychain true inherit-certkeychain true options { dont-insert-empty-fragments } } ltm cipher group cg_TLSv1.3 { allow { cr_TLSv1.3 { } } } ltm cipher rule cr_TLSv1.3 { cipher TLSv1_3 dh-groups DEFAULT signature-algorithms DEFAULT } ltm profile http customHTTP { app-service none defaults-from http enforcement { known-methods { PATCH DELETE GET POST PUT } max-header-count 32 max-header-size 16384 rfc-compliance enabled } hsts { mode enabled } insert-xforwarded-for enabled proxy-type reverse } ltm profile tcp customTCP { app-service none congestion-control bbr defaults-from f5-tcp-progressive idle-timeout 600 ip-tos-to-client pass-through keep-alive-interval 2100 pkt-loss-ignore-burst 3 pkt-loss-ignore-rate 10 proxy-options enabled } ltm profile web-security websecurity { } You can see that I have some non-standard options in some of that configuration, such as specifying the congestion-control algorithm algorithm in the TCP profile, enabling HSTS in the HTTP profile, and setting cipher rules and groups for use in my SSL profile. Now that we have an idea of the workload we're going to migrate, let's create a UCS of the system for use in the migration. If you are already comfortable with this part on classic BIG-IP systems, you can skip down to the next section header. First, login to your classic BIG-IP and navigate to System->Archives and click Create. Give it a name and click Finished. I named mine next-migration. Click OK after the UCS has been generated and saved. In the archive list, click the name of the UCS you created. Click the Download button. Migrating the Workload in Central Manager Upload UCS and Analyze the Workloads Armed with your UCS, login to Central Manager and on the welcome screen, click Go to Application Workspace. If you have not added any applications yet, you'll see a screen like this with a Start Adding Apps button. If you already have something defined, you'll see a list of applications. Click the + Add Application button instead. On this screen, we'll bypass creating a new application service and select New Migration. Name your session as you'll be able to come back to it to migrate other applications later if your intent is to just migrate a single application for now (as is the case with this walkthrough.) I added a description but it is not necessary. Click Next. Here you'll select your UCS archive and group your application services by IP addresses OR by virtual server. I stuck with the recommended default. Click Next. Your UCS will now upload and then Central Manager will analyze and group the package. An enhanced version of the JOURNEYS tool available in the f5devcentral organization on GitHub is used here. Select Add Application. Application 5 is the one we are interested in analyzing and migrating for this walkthrough, so I selected that one. Notice in the status column the applications that have warnings, and that ours is one of them. Hovering over the triangle icon it indicates the app can be migrated, but without some of the functionality from our classic iteration of this workload. Next, click Analyze at the top right so we can see what can't be migrated. In the Configuration Analyzer screen, there are 3 files with areas of concern. First, that the websecurity profile is not supported. This is ok, the mechanisms to support attaching policies in Next are slightly different. Next from what was the bigip_base.conf file, it's not supporting the vlan as defined. This is included in the migration analysis as the vlans are specified in my virtual server, but the mechanisms for doing so are different in Next. (Note: I don't fully grok this change yet. This article will be updated once I have confidence I'm communicating the functionality accurately.) And finally, from the bigip.conf file, there are few areas of concern, shown in the animated gif below. Standalone bot-defense is not a thing in BIG-IP Next, it's part of the overall policy, so that object is not supported. Also not supported yet are local traffic policies and cipher groups. Note that even though these objects aren't supported, I can still migrate the application, and it should "just work." I guess we'll see later in this article, right? :) At this point, select the </> Preview AS3 and copy that to a file. We'll compare that to the classic BIG-IP version of AS3 in a later section. Add an Application Service After closing the AS3 preview, select the application again and click Add. Click Next For this particular application, we need a couple shared objects: the certificate/key pair for the SSL profile and the WAF policy. Click Import. After those are imported, click the numbered icon (2 in my case) under the Shared Objects column, which will open a listing of those objects that you imported. Review the objects (optional) and click Exit. At this step, if your existing application migration is accurate to the object level, you can deploy to an instance directly. But I have some changes to make to the IPs so I'm going to deploy as a draft instead. After seeing that my deployment was successfully deployed as a draft in Central Manager, I click Finish. Update the Draft and Deploy In My Application Services, click the application we just migrated. Here we can tweak the AS3 declaration. I need to update the vlan as my vlan.br1 from my TMOS BIG-IP system is not defined on my Next instance. I also have different client/server address ranges, so I updated the virtual server and pool member addresses as well. You will likely want to change your application name from the generically-migrated "application_5" but I left it as is for this exercise. Once I completed those changes, I clicked Save & Deploy. I was then asked to select an instance to deploy the application server. I only have one currently, so I selected that. This failed due to my vlan configuration. As I mentioned during the migration process, I don't yet fully grok the vlan referencing requirements in Next, so this is a point for me to be educated on and follow up with updates here in this article. Instead, I removed the allowVlans attributed altogether (after another attempt) and then clicked Save & Deploy again and (after re-selecting the deploy location as shown above) found success. Clicking on the application, you get a visual representation of the application objects. Testing and Observing the Migrated Application Now that we have an honest to goodness deployed application on BIG-IP Next (WOO HOO!!) let's test it to make sure things are working as expected. I have a ubuntu test server with connections into my external and internal traffic networks for my Next instance so it can be the client (curl) and the server (NGINX). First, a request that should work: curl -sk https://10.0.2.50/ <!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <title>Welcome to nginx!</title> <style> body { width: 35em; margin: 0 auto; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; } </style> </head> <body> <h1>Welcome to nginx!</h1> <p>If you see this page, the nginx web server is successfully installed and working. Further configuration is required.</p> <p>For online documentation and support please refer to <a href="http://nginx.org/">nginx.org</a>.<br/> Commercial support is available at <a href="http://nginx.com/">nginx.com</a>.</p> <p><em>Thank you for using nginx.</em></p> Huzzah! That's a successful test. I ran a simple bash script with repetitive wget calls to push just a little load to populate the instance traffic graph: Now let's test the WAF policy by sending some nefarious traffic: curl -sk --config requests.txt https://10.0.2.50/ <html> <head> <title>Request Rejected</title> </head> <body>The requested URL was rejected. Please consult with your administrator.<br><br> Your support ID is: 16177875355615369771<br><br> <a href='javascript:history.back();'>[Go Back]</a> </body> </html> Sweet! Exactly what we wanted to see. Now let's take a look at the WAF Dashboard for blocks. Ok, that's a wrap on migrating the application. Functionally, it is a success! Comparing BIG-IP classic AS3 with BIG-IP Next AS3 If you are moving from classic BIG-IP configuration to BIG-IP Next, you likely will not have any context for comparing AS3 and so you might miss that some of the features you configured in classic are not present in Next. Some of those features aren't there at all yet, and some of them are just not exposed yet. Under the hood, TMM is still TMM with BIG-IP Next, and all of that core functionality is there, it's just a matter of prioritizing what gets exposed and tested and ready to support. Despite a myriad of features in classic BIG-IP, a surprising number of features went either unused or under-used and maintaining support for those will depend on future use requirements. Anyway, one way to build context for AS3 is to use Visual Studio Code and the F5 Extension to take your classic configuration and convert that to AS3 declarations with the AS3 configuration converter. In this section, I'm going to look at a few snippets to compare between classic and Next. Declaration Header The header for classic is a essentially a wrapper (lines 2-4) that isn't necessary in Next at all. That's because in classic, AS3 is not the only declaration class, you also have declarative onboarding and telemetry streaming. Classic: { "$schema": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/F5Networks/f5-appsvcs-extension/master/schema/latest/as3-schema.json", "class": "AS3", "declaration": { "class": "ADC", "schemaVersion": "3.37.0", "id": "urn:uuid:4339ea7d-094b-4950-b029-ac6344b03a2b", "label": "Converted Declaration", } } Next: { "class": "ADC", "schemaVersion": "3.0.0", "id": "urn:uuid:715aa8d8-c2b0-4890-9e77-5f6131ee9efd", "label": "Converted Declaration", } Profiles One thing to keep in mind with migration is that the migration assistant currently provides detailed analysis to the class level, not the class attribute level. This means that some of the attributes that are supported in classic that are not supported in Next will fly under the radar and be removed with no notification. There is work underway in this regard, but you'll need to evaluate each of your applications as you migrate and plan accordingly. For the app I migrated here, this was evident in the following profiles. ClientSSL Here, the cipher groups and rules from classic are not yet available, and the ability to establish only TLSv1.3 seems to not be configurable at this time. Classic: "cssl.TestSuite": { "certificates": [ { "certificate": "foo.acmelabs.com" } ], "cipherGroup": { "use": "cg_TLSv1.3" }, "class": "TLS_Server", "tls1_0Enabled": true, "tls1_1Enabled": true, "tls1_2Enabled": true, "tls1_3Enabled": true, "singleUseDhEnabled": false, "insertEmptyFragmentsEnabled": false }, Next: "cssl.TestSuite": { "authenticationFrequency": "one-time", "certificates": [ { "certificate": "/tenant87f7bd9913a51/application_5/foo.acmelabs.com" } ], "class": "TLS_Server" }, TCP In the TCP profile, the most notable changes are the loss of QoS settings and the ability to select the congestion control algorithm. Classic: "customTCP": { "congestionControl": "bbr", "idleTimeout": 600, "ipTosToClient": "pass-through", "keepAliveInterval": 2100, "pktLossIgnoreBurst": 3, "pktLossIgnoreRate": 10, "proxyOptions": true, "class": "TCP_Profile" } Next: "customTCP": { "idleTimeout": 600, "pktLossIgnoreBurst": 3, "pktLossIgnoreRate": 10, "proxyBufferHigh": 262144, "proxyBufferLow": 196608, "proxyOptions": true, "sendBufferSize": 262144, "class": "TCP_Profile" }, HTTP In my HTTP profile, it seems I lost all my personally-selected options, such that I'd likely be fine with the default profile. Also, since I'm using the WAF, I can manage the allowed request methods there, and whereas I can't auto-insert strict transport security in the profile directly yet, I can manage that in an iRule as well, so I do have a path to workarounds for both cases. Classic: "customHTTP": { "knownMethods": [ "PATCH", "DELETE", "GET", "POST", "PUT" ], "maxHeaderCount": 32, "maxHeaderSize": 16384, "hstsInsert": true, "xForwardedFor": true, "proxyType": "reverse", "class": "HTTP_Profile" }, Next: "customHTTP": { "requestChunking": "sustain", "responseChunking": "sustain", "class": "HTTP_Profile" } Final Thoughts I point out the differences in my before and after to show a complete picture of the migration process. Some things changed, some went away, but the bottom line is I have a working application service. Before working on this article, I've done a migration in a couple step-by-step controlled labs and have played with but not finished deploying a working, tested, functional application in my own lab. Don't make that same mistake. Get your classic configurations migrated ASAP even if only as a draft in Central Manager, so you can start to evaluate and analyze What work you have on your end to tweak and tune where features have changed Where you need to start engaging your account team to inquire about your MUST HAVE features that may or may not be scoped currently. Next time out, we'll take a look at creating a net-new application service. Until then, stay active out there community and start digging into BIG-IP Next!
JRahm
Mar 21, 2024 Place Technical Articles
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Embracing AS3: Foundations
(updated to remove the event-nature of this post) Last fall, a host of teams took to the road to support the launch of BIG-IP Next in the form of F5 Academy roadshows, where we shared the BIG-IP story: where we started, where we are, and where we're going with it; complete with hands-on LTM and WAF labs with the attendees. For this spring's roadshows, we added SSLO and Access labs. Across the fall and spring legs, I attended in person in Kansas City (twice!), St. Louis, Cincinnati, Columbus, Omaha, and (soon) Chicago and talked with customers at all stages of the automation journey. Some haven't automated much of anything. Some have been using a variety of on-/off-box scripts, and some are all-in, baby! That said, when I ask about AS3 as a tool in their tool belt, not that many have adopted or even investigated it yet. For classic BIG-IP AS3 is not a requirement, but in BIG-IP Next, AS3 is a critical component as it's THE underlying configuration language for all applications. Because of this, I did a five-part live stream series in December to get you started with AS3. Details below. Beyond Imperatives—What the heck is AS3? In this first episode, I covered the history of automation on BIG-IP, the differences between imperative and declarative models, and the basics of AS3 from data structure and systems architecture perspectives. Top 10 Features to Know in the VSCode F5 Extension Special guest and friend of the show Ben Novak, author of the F5 Extension for VSCode, joined me to dig into the features most important to know and learn to use for understanding how to take stock BIG-IP configurations and turn applications into declarations. Migrating and Deploying Applications in VSCode In this episode, armed with the knowledge I learned from Ben in the last episode, I dug into the brass tacks of AS3! I reviewed diagnostics and migrated applications from standard configuration to AS3 declarations and deployed as well. For migrating active workloads, I discussed the steps necessary to reduce transition impact. Creating New Apps and Using Shared Objects I've always tried to alter existing things before creating new things with tech, and this is no different. Now that I had a few migrations under my belt, I attacked a net-new application and looked at shared objects and how and when to use them. Best Practices Finally, I closed this series with a look at several best practices when working with AS3. The conclusion to this series, though, is hopefully just the stepping off point for everyone new to AS3, and we can continue the conversation right here on DevCentral.
JRahm
Dec 01, 2023 Place Technical Articles
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Getting Started with BIG-IP Next: Fundamentals
In the first article in this series, I introduced BIG-IP Next at the 50,000-foot (or meter for the saner parts of the world...) level. In this article, I will get closer to the brass tacks of tackling some technical tasks, but still hover over the trenches so I can lay a little more groundwork into the components of the BIG-IP Next: Central Manager and instances. Central Manager The Central Manager is the brains of the operation, and aptly named since it is the centralized location where most management tasks regarding BIG-IP Next instances will coalesce. Gone are the days of logging into BIG-IP devices. It won't be supported! Also gone are the days of creating a node to create a pool and creating some profiles and iRules and snat pools and then slapping all that together on a virtual server. That's not to say that some shared objects won't exist--they will, or at least they can. In classic BIG-IP, the virtual server was the "top dog" from an object perspective unless you already have used iApps or AS3 declarations, in which case those options are similar to what we have with BIG-IP Next, where the application service wears the crown. Everything about that application service is defined within that context, including multiple virtual servers where necessary. That will be done in the GUI via application templates, or via the API with AS3 directly or via FAST templates. The included http application template in the Central Manager GUI allows for a lot of checkbox functionality, but accessing some of the functionality you may be used to will require additional or edited templates. Beyond managing the instances and the application services, you'll also be able to manage your security policies, attack and bot signature security services updates and monitor/report on deployed policies. And of course, you'll be able to manage users and performance maintenance on the Central Manager system itself. There is no license required for Central Manager; you can download it now and get started with your discovery as soon as you're ready! I have it installed on my iMac in VMware Fusion currently, and I'll be writing articles in the next couple of weeks on installation for Fusion and ESXi. Instances Whereas Central Manager is the brain of the BIG-IP Next operation, the instances are the brawn. They can take the form of a tenant on F5 VELOS or rSeries hardware, a KVM and/or VMware Virtual Edition for private clouds and coming soon, or a Virtual Edition on select public clouds. (Note: Instances can also take the form of CNFs in headless kubernetes deployments, but that won't be addressed in this series.) Onboarding instances is not as complex a process as setting up classic BIG-IP because day one operations are not intermingled with day two and beyond. You define the CPU, memory, disk, and network resources you need depending on what modules you're licensing for use and fire it up. Once that candle is lit, you run through a few onboarding steps with either a postman collection or write an onboarding script to walk through those steps for you. That's it for setup on the instances; the rest of the process is managed on Central Manager. Limited access will be available on instances for troubleshooting through a sidecar proxy, but even that is configured and managed through Central Manager. Instances are licensed. Make sure to check with your account team; you might already be entitled to BIG-IP Next licensing, but a conversion transaction will be necessary. For lab discovery, you can generate a trial license on MyF5 to get started! I'll cover installation on KVM, Fusion, and ESXi in the next couple of weeks. Leon Seng has already written up installing a BIG-IP Next instance on Proxmox! "Next" Up Alrighty then! Enough talk, Jason, let's do something! I hear you, I hear you...starting next week, I'll be releasing incremental steps into the installation, onboarding, licensing, upgrading, backup/restore, etc, of both the Central Manager and the instances. Here's the general workflow I'll follow: Ignore the platform. I'll step through all the support versions I have access to and keep placeholders to circle back as more platforms are supported. I hope to see you all at AppWorld, but if not, don't be a stranger here on DevCentral, reach out any time!
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Jan 25, 2024 Place Technical Articles
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Create F5 BIG-IP Next Instance on Proxmox Virtual Environment
If you are looking to deploy a F5 BIG-IP Next instance on Proxmox Virtual Environment (henceforth referred to as Proxmox for the sake of brevity), perhaps in your home lab, here's how: First, download the BIG-IP Next Central Manager and BIG-IP Next QCOW Files from MyF5 Downloads. Click on the "Copy Download Link" Copy the QCOW file to your Proxmox host. I am using the download links from above in the example below. proxmox $ curl -O -L -J [link for Central Manager from F5 downloads] proxmox $ curl -O -L -J [link for Next from F5 downloads] On the Proxmox host, extract the contents in the QCOW files. You will need to rename the Central Manager file from .qcow to .qcow2. proxmox $ cd ~/ proxmox $ mv BIG-IP-Next-CentralManager-20.2.1-0.3.25.qcow BIG-IP-Next-CentralManager-20.2.1-0.3.25.qcow2 proxmox $ tar -zxvf BIG-IP-Next-20.2.1-2.430.2+0.0.48.qcow2.tar.gz BIG-IP-Next-20.2.1-2.430.2+0.0.48.qcow2 BIG-IP-Next-20.2.1-2.430.2+0.0.48.qcow2.sha512 BIG-IP-Next-20.2.1-2.430.2+0.0.48.qcow2.sha512.sig BIG-IP-Next-20.2.1-2.430.2+0.0.48.qcow2.sha512sum.txt.asc BIG-IP-Next-20.2.1-F5-ca-bundle.cert BIG-IP-Next-20.2.1-F5-certificate.cert Then, run the command below to create a virtual machine (VM) from the extracted QCOW files. replace the values to match your environment. # # Central Manager # # use either DHCP or Static IP example # # using DHCP (change values to match your environment) proxmox $ qm create 105 --memory 16384 --sockets 1 --cores 8 --net0 virtio,bridge=vmbr0 --name my-central-manager --scsihw=virtio-scsi-single --ostype=l26 --cpu=x86-64-v2-AES --citype nocloud --ipconfig0 ip=dhcp --ciupgrade=0 --ide2=local-lvm:cloudinit # static IP (change values to match your environment) # proxmox $ qm create 105 --memory 16384 --sockets 1 --cores 8 --net0 virtio,bridge=vmbr0 --net1 virtio,bridge=vmbr1 --name my-central-manager --scsihw=virtio-scsi-single --ostype=l26 --cpu=x86-64-v2-AES --citype nocloud --ipconfig0 ip=192.168.1.5/24,gw=192.168.1.1 --nameserver 192.168.1.1 --ciupgrade=0 --ide2=local-lvm:cloudinit # import disk qm set 105 --virtio0 local-lvm:0,import-from=/root/BIG-IP-Next-CentralManager-20.2.1-0.3.25.qcow2 --boot order=virtio0 # # Next instance # # Note that you need at least two interfaces, one for management and one for data-plane # # use either DHCP or Static IP example # # DHCP proxmox $ qm create 107 --memory 16384 --sockets 1 --cores 8 --net0 virtio,bridge=vmbr0 --net1 virtio,bridge=vmbr1 --name my-next-instance --scsihw=virtio-scsi-single --ostype=l26 --cpu=x86-64-v2-AES --citype nocloud --ipconfig0 ip=dhcp --ciupgrade=0 --ciuser=admin --cipassword=admin --ide2=local-lvm:cloudinit # static IP # proxmox $ qm create 107 --memory 16384 --sockets 1 --cores 8 --net0 virtio,bridge=vmbr0 --net1 virtio,bridge=vmbr1 --name my-next-instance --scsihw=virtio-scsi-single --ostype=l26 --cpu=x86-64-v2-AES --citype nocloud --ipconfig0 ip=192.168.1.7/24,gw=192.168.1.1 --nameserver 192.168.1.1 --ciupgrade=0 --ciuser=admin --cipassword=admin --ide2=local-lvm:cloudinit # import disk proxmox $ proxmox $ qm set 107 --virtio0 local-lvm:0,import-from=/root/BIG-IP-Next-20.2.1-2.430.2+0.0.48.qcow2 --boot order=virtio0 You should now see a new VM created on the Proxmox GUI. Finally, start the VM. This will take a few minutes. The BIG-IP Next VM is now ready to be onboarded per instructions found here.
Leon_Seng
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VIPTest: Rapid Application Testing for F5 Environments
VIPTest is a Python-based tool for efficiently testing multiple URLs in F5 environments, allowing quick assessment of application behavior before and after configuration changes. It supports concurrent processing, handles various URL formats, and provides detailed reports on HTTP responses, TLS versions, and connectivity status, making it useful for migrations and routine maintenance.
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How I did it - "Remote logging with F5 BIG-IP Next and OpenTelemetry"
In this installment of “How I Did it” we’ll be diving into the next generation of BIG-IP software, F5 BIG-IP Next and how—by using OpenTelemetry- organizations can now effortlessly integrate BIG-IP Next with an extensive array of third-party analytics and visualization tools. A little background While at its core, BIG-IP Next is still the same BIG-IP that F5 customers know and trust, the platform has been modernized and optimized for the future. With respect to the topic at hand, it’s worth noting that Central Manager itself provides robust native application/security reporting and visibility (see below). With that said, many enterprises prefer to aggregate their various telemetry streams onto a single platform. To that end, BIG-IP Next uses OpenTelemetry for telemetry streaming within the Next infrastructure as well as for data exportation to third-party analytics tools. OpenTelemetry (OTEL) is a set of APIs, libraries, agents, instrumentation, and instrumentation standards designed to provide observability for applications through the generation, collection, and description of telemetry data such as traces, metrics, and logs. The Otel collector which is a component of the OTEL toolkit provides a proxy to receive, process and export telemetry data including traces, metrics, and logs to a variety of third-party analytics platforms. While many analytics and observability vendors have their own flavor of the collector available, I used the community version, 'collector-contrib' running on a Linux instance for this demonstration. The contrib version affords me the ability to specify a variety of third-party vendor exporters. According to James McQuivey, PhD of Forrester a 1-minute video is equivalent to 1.8 million words. With that in mind, rather than filling up this page with a little more than 12.6 million words- minus a thousand for each picture — documenting each step here, I've included a short, (a little over 7 minutes) video walkthrough of the configuration process. For a deeper look at the technologies involved, check out the links below. Alright, let's grab some popcorn and watch a movie. 😀 Additional links F5 BIG-IP Next Introduction F5 BIG-IP Next Documentation F5 BIG-IP Next API Specification F5 BIG-IP Next Remote Logging API Introducing OpenTelemetry OpenTelemetry Collector OpenTelemetry Collector Contrib repo Analytics Vendors Dashboard repo
Greg_Coward
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Using Tcl packages in iRules
In standard Tcl scripts, you have the ability to include packages, like for working with ip addresses. For example, if I want to normalize an IPv6 address, I can do so like this: % package require ip 1.2 % ::ip::normalize ::1 0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0001 % ::ip::normalize 2001:db8:: 2001:0db8:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000 % ::ip::normalize 2001:0db8:85a3::8a2e:0370:7334 2001:0db8:85a3:0000:0000:8a2e:0370:7334 Which is great, but the package keyword is disabled in iRules, so we don't have access to those tools and thus have to build them ourselves. Or do we? Making Tcl source iRules compatible I had an inquiry from my colleague Matt Stovall on the ability to manage IPv6 within iRules. The good news was that there is an argument on the IP::addr command to parse IPv6 addresses. The bad news is that the requirement is for the full IPv6 address but the parsed address returned by IP::addr is the short version: Rule /Common/t1 <RULE_INIT>: 2001:0db8:85a3:0000:0000:8a2e:0370:7334 Parsed w/ IP::addr: 2001:db8:85a3::8a2e:370:7334 While looking into the problem, I noticed a codeshare entry to compress/expand IPv6 addresses from MVP Kai_Wilke. That is an option for sure. But I also wanted to see what the Tcl source had to say about IP and whether it was possible to make it iRules compatible. Matt needed three functions out of this effort: Normalizing IPv6 addresses Compressing IPv6 addresses Getting the IPv6 network prefix given a netmask In the Tcl ip package, these functions, respectively, are ::ip::normalize, ::ip::contract, and ::ip::prefix, and in reviewing the source, they are native Tcl. This is good! proc ::ip::normalize {ip {Ip4inIp6 0}} { foreach {ip mask} [SplitIp $ip] break set version [version $ip] set s [ToString [Normalize $ip $version] $Ip4inIp6] if {($version == 6 && $mask != 128) || ($version == 4 && $mask != 32)} { append s /$mask } return $s } proc ::ip::contract {ip} { foreach {ip mask} [SplitIp $ip] break set version [version $ip] set s [ToString [Normalize $ip $version]] if {$version == 6} { set r "" foreach o [split $s :] { append r [format %x: 0x$o] } set r [string trimright $r :] regsub {(?:^|:)0(?::0)+(?::|$)} $r {::} r } else { set r [string trimright $s .0] } return $r } proc ::ip::prefix {ip} { foreach {addr mask} [SplitIp $ip] break set version [version $addr] set addr [Normalize $addr $version] return [ToString [Mask$version $addr $mask]] } Within each command procedure, you'll notice there are many more procedures that are referenced, and thus many more that need to be made compliant. Matt made a mermaid dependency chart for each of the top-level functions he needed. Here's the one for normalize: With that, it just came down to cleaning up the syntax. With iRules, the use of procedures requires the use of the call command. Honing in on the normalize function, here's the before and after of that single procedure: ### BEFORE ### proc ::ip::normalize {ip {Ip4inIp6 0}} { foreach {ip mask} [SplitIp $ip] break set version [version $ip] set s [ToString [Normalize $ip $version] $Ip4inIp6] if {($version == 6 && $mask != 128) || ($version == 4 && $mask != 32)} { append s /$mask } return $s } ### AFTER ### proc normalize {ip {Ip4inIp6 0}} { foreach {ip mask} [call irule_library::SplitIp $ip] break set version [call irule_library::version $ip] set s [call irule_library::ToString [call irule_library::Normalize $ip $version] $Ip4inIp6] if {($version == 6 && $mask != 128) || ($version == 4 && $mask != 32)} { append s /$mask } return $s } No heavy lifting required for solid access to time-tested tools developed by the Tcl community! The choice here was to build an iRule called irule_library that will serve as a library of procedures for the necessary ip package functions. If you use partitions, you'll want to add those references to the irule library objects (like /Common/irule_libary::ToString). You can see the finished work for all the procs and the other dependency graphs in Matt's IPv6 iRule library github repo. What else would you like to convert from Tcl packages to an iRules-compliant procs library?
JRahm
Aug 28, 2024 Place Technical Articles
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Installing BIG-IP Next on Nutanix Community Edition
Recently I've had a couple questions about installing BIG-IP Next on Nutanix and I took some time to get it to run on Nutanix Community Edition and discovered some issues along the way.
Eric_Chen
Aug 06, 2024 Place Technical Articles
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Now, in the Central Manager GUI, you might interact with FAST templates that deliver a more traditional view into configuring applications, but the underlying configuration engine is all AS3. For more, I hosted a series of streams in December to introduce AS3 Foundations, I highly recommend you take the time to digest the basics. \n Benefits I'm Excited About \n There are many and you can read about them on the product page on F5.com. But here's my short list: \n API-first. Period. BIG-IP had APIs with iControl from the era before APIs were even cool, but they were not first-class citizens. The resulting performance at scale requires effort to manage effectively. Not only performance, but feature parity among iControl REST, iControl SOAP, tmsh, and the GUI has been a challenge because of the way development occurred over time. Not so with BIG-IP Next. Everything is API-first, so all tooling is able to consume everything. This is huge! \n Migration assistance. Central Manager has the JOURNEYS tool on sterroids built-in to the experience. Upload your UCS, evaluate your applications to see what can be migrated without updates, and deploy! It really is that easy. Sure, there's work to be done for applications that aren't fully compatible yet, but it's a great start. You can do this piece (and I recommend that you do) before you even think about deploying a single instance just to learn what work you have ahead of you and what solutions you might need to adapt to be ready. \n Simplified patch/upgrade process. If you know, you know...patches are upgrades with BIG-IP, and not in place at that. This is drastically improved with BIG-IP Next! Because of the containerized nature of the system, individual containers can be targeted for patching, and depending on the container, may not even require a downtime consideration. \n Release cycle. A more frequent release cadence might terrify the customers among us that like to space out their upgrades to once every three years or so, but for the rest of us, feature delivery to the tune of weeks instead of twice per year is an exciting development (pun intended!) \n Features I'm Excited About \n Versioning for iRules and policies. For those of us who write/manage these things, this is huge! Typically I'd version by including it in the title, and I know some who set release tags in repos. With Central Manager, it's built-in and you can deploy iRules and polices by version and do diffs in place. I'm super excited about this! \n Did I mention the API? On the API front...it's one API, for all functionality. No digging and scraping through the GUI, tmsh, iControl REST, iControl SOAP, building out a node.js app to deploy a custom API endpoint with iControl LX, if even possible with some of the modules like APM or ASM. Nope, it's all there in one API. Glorious. \n Centralized dashboards. This one is for the Ops teams! Who among us has spent many a day building custom dashboards to consume stats from BIG-IPs across your org to have a single pane of glass to manage? I for one, and I'm thrilled to see system, application, and security data centralized for analysis and alerting. \n Log/metric streaming. And finally, logs and metrics! Telemetry Streaming from the F5 Automation Toolchain doesn't come forward in BIG-IP Next, but the ideas behind it do. If you need your data elsewhere from Central Manager, you can set up remote logging with OpenTelemetry (see the link in the resources listed below for a first published example of this.) \n There are some great features coming with DNS, Access, and all the other modules when they are released as well. I'll cover those when they hit general availability. \n Let's Go! \n In the coming weeks, I'll be releasing articles on installation and licensing walk-throughs for Central Manager and the instances, and content from our awesome group of authors is already starting to flow as well. Here are a few entries you can feast your eyes on, including an instance Proxmox installation: \n \n For the kubernetes crowd, BIG-IP Next CNF Solutions for RedHat Openshift \n Installing BIG-IP Next Instance on Proxmox \n Remote Logging with BIG-IP Next and OpenTelemetry \n \n Are you ready? Grab a trial license from your MyF5 dashboard and get going! And make sure to join us in the BIG-IP Next Academy group here on DevCentral. The launch team is actively engaged there for next-related questions/issues, so that's the place to be in your early journey! \n Also...if you want the ultimate jump-start for all things BIG-IP Next, join us at AppWorld 2024 in SanJose next month! \n \n 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In this article, I'll show you how to get BIG-IP Next Central Manager installed on VMware ESXi. \n Download the bits... \n Login to MyF5 and head to the downloads section. Select the Central Manager product line, your choice of the product version (20.0 in my case for this article, the rest of the values in parentheses follow suit, but you might choose different versions/locations), then select a product container (20.0.2). Select the OVA file (BIG-IP-Next-CentralManager-20.0.02-0.0.68.ova), select the download location (USA - EAST COAST) and then click download. My selections as stated are shown below. \n \n Install Central Manager \n Connect to VMware ESXi, and make sure the system has 8 VCPus, 16GB RAM, and 350GB of disk handy for the installation! Click on Virtual Machines in the left-hand menu and then click on create / register VM. \n \n On the select creation type screen, select deploy a virtual machine from an OVF or OVA file and click next. \n \n On the select OVF and VMDK files screen, enter the name for your virtual machine (Next-CM1 for me) and then select the bits you downloaded and click next. \n \n You might deviate from my choices on the select storage screen, but I stuck with the default standard type and datastore1 I setup up initially on my ESXi system. Click next when you have made your selections here. \n \n On the deployment options screen, select your network mappings. I set mine to the VM Network that allows my VM to grab an IP address on my local network so I can get to it outside of the ESXi system. You might have a different requirement here for networking and disk provisioning as well. I'd recommend leaving the default of power on automatically enabled. \n \n Review the information and click finish. \n \n ESXi will now begin setting up the virtual machine. \n \n By default on my installation, the CPU and memory reservations were set to none. This is desirable on my lab box, but for production this likely is not preferred, so make sure to adjust these to fit your needs. The virtual machine will need to be powered down to make adjustments. \n \n Set up Central Manager \n Once the Central Manager virtual machine installation has completed, select your new virtual machine in the left-hand menu, click console, and then your choice of consoles. I chose the browser console. \n \n Once the console loads, login with admin/admin. You'll be prompted to update the password. \n \n Enter the setup command, and work through the list of questions. I named mine cm.test.local (forgot my cm1!) and stuck with a DHCP address. I kept the defaults on the remaining questions save for external storage. This is local discovery on an ESXi lab device for me, so I don't need that, but that's something you might need for a more permanent installation. After the summary is presented, you can select yes and move on. \n \n After a short pause, you'll be prompted to start the installation. Select yes. \n \n Take a bio break and grab some coffee! It'll take several minutes to complete the install. \n \n Once complete, I logged out and back in at the ESXi virtual machine browser console just to make sure my password update was successful. Grab the IP address (if you didn't set one statically) from the console view, launch your favorite web browser and enter said IP into the locator bar and hit enter. Then enter admin, admin and click sign in. Note that even though you are re-using admin, it's a different account in the web interface than at the command line via console or ssh. \n \n Here you are required again to change the password. Do that and then click save. \n \n With an updated password, you are now ready to login to Central Manager! Submit your credentials and click sign in. \n \n Success! \n \n Congrats! Now you can begin exploring/using Central Manager. \n Resources \n Create BIG-IP Next Central Manager on VMware \n 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Started with BIG-IP Next: Migrating an Application Workload","conversation":{"__ref":"Conversation:conversation:328665"},"id":"message:328665","revisionNum":8,"uid":328665,"depth":0,"board":{"__ref":"Tkb:board:TechnicalArticles"},"author":{"__ref":"User:user:51154"},"teaser@stripHtml({\"removeProcessingText\":true,\"truncateLength\":-1})":"","introduction":"","metrics":{"__typename":"MessageMetrics","views":1607},"postTime":"2024-03-21T15:53:08.933-07:00","lastPublishTime":"2024-03-21T15:53:08.933-07:00","body@stripHtml({\"removeProcessingText\":true,\"removeSpoilerMarkup\":true,\"removeTocMarkup\":true,\"truncateLength\":-1})":" So far in this article series, the focus has been completely on the operational readiness of BIG-IP Next as a system. In this article, I'll walk through migrating an application currently supported by my classic BIG-IP running TMOS version 15.1.x. The application is just a simple instance of an NGINX web server fronted on LTM with basic load balancing, TLS offloading, and a basic WAF policy. There are a lot of screenshots in this article, which might seem overwhelming. Doing your own walkthrough, however, will put your mind at ease; it actually moves pretty quickly in realtime. \n Existing Application Workload on TMOS \n We'll start with the GUI representation of the application workload. It is secured with TLS, which is offloaded at the BIG-IP with a clientssl profile and not re-encrypted to the server. There are custom TCP and HTTP profiles defined as well as the aforementioned custom clientssl profile. Snat automap is enabled, and a specific VLAN is configured to allow connections. On the security tab, an application security policy is enabled, and the log illegal requests log profile is enabled as well. Finally, under resources, the default pool is defined and a policy is in place to map requests to the applied security policy. \n \n On the CLI, that virtual server along with all the other referenced BIG-IP objects are defined in the tmsh version of that configuration. \n ltm virtual nginx-vip-tls {\n destination 172.16.101.50:https\n ip-protocol tcp\n mask 255.255.255.255\n policies {\n asm_auto_l7_policy__nginx-vip-tls { }\n }\n pool nginx-pool\n profiles {\n ASM_testpol { }\n cssl.TestSuite {\n context clientside\n }\n customHTTP { }\n customTCP { }\n websecurity { }\n }\n security-log-profiles {\n \"Log illegal requests\"\n }\n source-address-translation {\n type automap\n }\n vlans {\n vlan.br1\n }\n vlans-enabled\n}\nltm policy asm_auto_l7_policy__nginx-vip-tls {\n controls { asm }\n last-modified 2024-03-20:13:25:13\n requires { http }\n rules {\n default {\n actions {\n 1 {\n asm\n enable\n policy /Common/testpol\n }\n }\n ordinal 1\n }\n }\n status legacy\n strategy first-match\n}\nltm pool nginx-pool {\n members {\n 172.16.102.5:http {\n address 172.16.102.5\n session monitor-enabled\n state up\n }\n }\n monitor http\n}\nsecurity bot-defense asm-profile ASM_testpol {\n app-service none\n clientside-in-use disabled\n flags 0\n inject-javascript disabled\n persistent-data-validity-period 0\n send-brute-force-challenge disabled\n send-javascript-challenge disabled\n send-javascript-efoxy disabled\n send-javascript-fingerprint disabled\n}\nltm profile client-ssl cssl.TestSuite {\n app-service none\n cert-key-chain {\n default {\n cert default.crt\n key default.key\n }\n }\n cipher-group cg_TLSv1.3\n ciphers none\n defaults-from clientssl\n inherit-ca-certkeychain true\n inherit-certkeychain true\n options { dont-insert-empty-fragments }\n}\nltm cipher group cg_TLSv1.3 {\n allow {\n cr_TLSv1.3 { }\n }\n}\nltm cipher rule cr_TLSv1.3 {\n cipher TLSv1_3\n dh-groups DEFAULT\n signature-algorithms DEFAULT\n}\nltm profile http customHTTP {\n app-service none\n defaults-from http\n enforcement {\n known-methods { PATCH DELETE GET POST PUT }\n max-header-count 32\n max-header-size 16384\n rfc-compliance enabled\n }\n hsts {\n mode enabled\n }\n insert-xforwarded-for enabled\n proxy-type reverse\n}\nltm profile tcp customTCP {\n app-service none\n congestion-control bbr\n defaults-from f5-tcp-progressive\n idle-timeout 600\n ip-tos-to-client pass-through\n keep-alive-interval 2100\n pkt-loss-ignore-burst 3\n pkt-loss-ignore-rate 10\n proxy-options enabled\n}\nltm profile web-security websecurity { }\n \n You can see that I have some non-standard options in some of that configuration, such as specifying the congestion-control algorithm algorithm in the TCP profile, enabling HSTS in the HTTP profile, and setting cipher rules and groups for use in my SSL profile. Now that we have an idea of the workload we're going to migrate, let's create a UCS of the system for use in the migration. If you are already comfortable with this part on classic BIG-IP systems, you can skip down to the next section header. First, login to your classic BIG-IP and navigate to System->Archives and click Create. \n \n Give it a name and click Finished. I named mine next-migration. \n \n Click OK after the UCS has been generated and saved. \n \n In the archive list, click the name of the UCS you created. \n \n Click the Download button. \n \n Migrating the Workload in Central Manager \n Upload UCS and Analyze the Workloads \n Armed with your UCS, login to Central Manager and on the welcome screen, click Go to Application Workspace. \n \n If you have not added any applications yet, you'll see a screen like this with a Start Adding Apps button. \n \n If you already have something defined, you'll see a list of applications. Click the + Add Application button instead. \n \n On this screen, we'll bypass creating a new application service and select New Migration. \n \n Name your session as you'll be able to come back to it to migrate other applications later if your intent is to just migrate a single application for now (as is the case with this walkthrough.) I added a description but it is not necessary. Click Next. \n \n Here you'll select your UCS archive and group your application services by IP addresses OR by virtual server. I stuck with the recommended default. Click Next. \n \n Your UCS will now upload and then Central Manager will analyze and group the package. An enhanced version of the JOURNEYS tool available in the f5devcentral organization on GitHub is used here. \n \n Select Add Application. \n \n Application 5 is the one we are interested in analyzing and migrating for this walkthrough, so I selected that one. Notice in the status column the applications that have warnings, and that ours is one of them. Hovering over the triangle icon it indicates the app can be migrated, but without some of the functionality from our classic iteration of this workload. Next, click Analyze at the top right so we can see what can't be migrated. \n \n In the Configuration Analyzer screen, there are 3 files with areas of concern. First, that the websecurity profile is not supported. This is ok, the mechanisms to support attaching policies in Next are slightly different. \n \n Next from what was the bigip_base.conf file, it's not supporting the vlan as defined. This is included in the migration analysis as the vlans are specified in my virtual server, but the mechanisms for doing so are different in Next. (Note: I don't fully grok this change yet. This article will be updated once I have confidence I'm communicating the functionality accurately.) \n \n And finally, from the bigip.conf file, there are few areas of concern, shown in the animated gif below. Standalone bot-defense is not a thing in BIG-IP Next, it's part of the overall policy, so that object is not supported. Also not supported yet are local traffic policies and cipher groups. Note that even though these objects aren't supported, I can still migrate the application, and it should \"just work.\" I guess we'll see later in this article, right? :) \n \n At this point, select the </> Preview AS3 and copy that to a file. We'll compare that to the classic BIG-IP version of AS3 in a later section. \n \n Add an Application Service \n After closing the AS3 preview, select the application again and click Add. \n \n Click Next \n \n For this particular application, we need a couple shared objects: the certificate/key pair for the SSL profile and the WAF policy. Click Import. \n \n After those are imported, click the numbered icon (2 in my case) under the Shared Objects column, which will open a listing of those objects that you imported. \n \n Review the objects (optional) and click Exit. \n \n At this step, if your existing application migration is accurate to the object level, you can deploy to an instance directly. But I have some changes to make to the IPs so I'm going to deploy as a draft instead. \n \n After seeing that my deployment was successfully deployed as a draft in Central Manager, I click Finish. \n \n Update the Draft and Deploy \n In My Application Services, click the application we just migrated. \n \n Here we can tweak the AS3 declaration. I need to update the vlan as my vlan.br1 from my TMOS BIG-IP system is not defined on my Next instance. I also have different client/server address ranges, so I updated the virtual server and pool member addresses as well. You will likely want to change your application name from the generically-migrated \"application_5\" but I left it as is for this exercise. Once I completed those changes, I clicked Save & Deploy. \n \n I was then asked to select an instance to deploy the application server. I only have one currently, so I selected that. \n \n This failed due to my vlan configuration. As I mentioned during the migration process, I don't yet fully grok the vlan referencing requirements in Next, so this is a point for me to be educated on and follow up with updates here in this article. \n \n Instead, I removed the allowVlans attributed altogether (after another attempt) and then clicked Save & Deploy again and (after re-selecting the deploy location as shown above) found success. \n \n Clicking on the application, you get a visual representation of the application objects. \n \n Testing and Observing the Migrated Application \n Now that we have an honest to goodness deployed application on BIG-IP Next (WOO HOO!!) let's test it to make sure things are working as expected. I have a ubuntu test server with connections into my external and internal traffic networks for my Next instance so it can be the client (curl) and the server (NGINX). First, a request that should work: \n curl -sk https://10.0.2.50/\n<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<title>Welcome to nginx!</title>\n<style>\n body {\n width: 35em;\n margin: 0 auto;\n font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;\n }\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<h1>Welcome to nginx!</h1>\n<p>If you see this page, the nginx web server is successfully installed and\nworking. Further configuration is required.</p>\n\n<p>For online documentation and support please refer to\n<a href=\"http://nginx.org/\">nginx.org</a>.<br/>\nCommercial support is available at\n<a href=\"http://nginx.com/\">nginx.com</a>.</p>\n\n<p><em>Thank you for using nginx.</em></p> \n Huzzah! That's a successful test. I ran a simple bash script with repetitive wget calls to push just a little load to populate the instance traffic graph: \n \n Now let's test the WAF policy by sending some nefarious traffic: \n curl -sk --config requests.txt https://10.0.2.50/\n<html>\n <head>\n <title>Request Rejected</title>\n </head>\n <body>The requested URL was rejected. Please consult with your administrator.<br><br>\n Your support ID is: 16177875355615369771<br><br>\n <a href='javascript:history.back();'>[Go Back]</a>\n </body>\n</html> \n Sweet! Exactly what we wanted to see. Now let's take a look at the WAF Dashboard for blocks. \n \n Ok, that's a wrap on migrating the application. Functionally, it is a success! \n Comparing BIG-IP classic AS3 with BIG-IP Next AS3 \n If you are moving from classic BIG-IP configuration to BIG-IP Next, you likely will not have any context for comparing AS3 and so you might miss that some of the features you configured in classic are not present in Next. Some of those features aren't there at all yet, and some of them are just not exposed yet. Under the hood, TMM is still TMM with BIG-IP Next, and all of that core functionality is there, it's just a matter of prioritizing what gets exposed and tested and ready to support. Despite a myriad of features in classic BIG-IP, a surprising number of features went either unused or under-used and maintaining support for those will depend on future use requirements. \n Anyway, one way to build context for AS3 is to use Visual Studio Code and the F5 Extension to take your classic configuration and convert that to AS3 declarations with the AS3 configuration converter. In this section, I'm going to look at a few snippets to compare between classic and Next. \n Declaration Header \n The header for classic is a essentially a wrapper (lines 2-4) that isn't necessary in Next at all. That's because in classic, AS3 is not the only declaration class, you also have declarative onboarding and telemetry streaming. \n Classic: \n {\n \"$schema\": \"https://raw.githubusercontent.com/F5Networks/f5-appsvcs-extension/master/schema/latest/as3-schema.json\",\n \"class\": \"AS3\",\n \"declaration\": {\n \"class\": \"ADC\",\n \"schemaVersion\": \"3.37.0\",\n \"id\": \"urn:uuid:4339ea7d-094b-4950-b029-ac6344b03a2b\",\n \"label\": \"Converted Declaration\",\n }\n} \n Next: \n {\n \"class\": \"ADC\",\n \"schemaVersion\": \"3.0.0\",\n \"id\": \"urn:uuid:715aa8d8-c2b0-4890-9e77-5f6131ee9efd\",\n \"label\": \"Converted Declaration\",\n} \n Profiles \n One thing to keep in mind with migration is that the migration assistant currently provides detailed analysis to the class level, not the class attribute level. This means that some of the attributes that are supported in classic that are not supported in Next will fly under the radar and be removed with no notification. There is work underway in this regard, but you'll need to evaluate each of your applications as you migrate and plan accordingly. For the app I migrated here, this was evident in the following profiles. \n ClientSSL \n Here, the cipher groups and rules from classic are not yet available, and the ability to establish only TLSv1.3 seems to not be configurable at this time. \n Classic: \n \"cssl.TestSuite\": {\n \"certificates\": [\n {\n \"certificate\": \"foo.acmelabs.com\"\n }\n ],\n \"cipherGroup\": {\n \"use\": \"cg_TLSv1.3\"\n },\n \"class\": \"TLS_Server\",\n \"tls1_0Enabled\": true,\n \"tls1_1Enabled\": true,\n \"tls1_2Enabled\": true,\n \"tls1_3Enabled\": true,\n \"singleUseDhEnabled\": false,\n \"insertEmptyFragmentsEnabled\": false\n }, \n Next: \n \"cssl.TestSuite\": {\n \"authenticationFrequency\": \"one-time\",\n \"certificates\": [\n {\n \"certificate\": \"/tenant87f7bd9913a51/application_5/foo.acmelabs.com\"\n }\n ],\n \"class\": \"TLS_Server\"\n }, \n TCP \n In the TCP profile, the most notable changes are the loss of QoS settings and the ability to select the congestion control algorithm. \n Classic: \n \"customTCP\": {\n \"congestionControl\": \"bbr\",\n \"idleTimeout\": 600,\n \"ipTosToClient\": \"pass-through\",\n \"keepAliveInterval\": 2100,\n \"pktLossIgnoreBurst\": 3,\n \"pktLossIgnoreRate\": 10,\n \"proxyOptions\": true,\n \"class\": \"TCP_Profile\"\n }\n \n Next: \n \"customTCP\": { \n \"idleTimeout\": 600,\n \"pktLossIgnoreBurst\": 3,\n \"pktLossIgnoreRate\": 10,\n \"proxyBufferHigh\": 262144,\n \"proxyBufferLow\": 196608,\n \"proxyOptions\": true,\n \"sendBufferSize\": 262144,\n \"class\": \"TCP_Profile\"\n }, \n HTTP \n In my HTTP profile, it seems I lost all my personally-selected options, such that I'd likely be fine with the default profile. Also, since I'm using the WAF, I can manage the allowed request methods there, and whereas I can't auto-insert strict transport security in the profile directly yet, I can manage that in an iRule as well, so I do have a path to workarounds for both cases. \n Classic: \n \"customHTTP\": {\n \"knownMethods\": [\n \"PATCH\",\n \"DELETE\",\n \"GET\",\n \"POST\",\n \"PUT\"\n ],\n \"maxHeaderCount\": 32,\n \"maxHeaderSize\": 16384,\n \"hstsInsert\": true,\n \"xForwardedFor\": true,\n \"proxyType\": \"reverse\",\n \"class\": \"HTTP_Profile\"\n }, \n Next: \n \"customHTTP\": {\n \"requestChunking\": \"sustain\",\n \"responseChunking\": \"sustain\",\n \"class\": \"HTTP_Profile\"\n } \n \n Final Thoughts \n I point out the differences in my before and after to show a complete picture of the migration process. Some things changed, some went away, but the bottom line is I have a working application service. \n Before working on this article, I've done a migration in a couple step-by-step controlled labs and have played with but not finished deploying a working, tested, functional application in my own lab. Don't make that same mistake. Get your classic configurations migrated ASAP even if only as a draft in Central Manager, so you can start to evaluate and analyze \n \n What work you have on your end to tweak and tune where features have changed \n Where you need to start engaging your account team to inquire about your MUST HAVE features that may or may not be scoped currently. \n \n Next time out, we'll take a look at creating a net-new application service. Until then, stay active out there community and start digging into BIG-IP Next! \n 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For this spring's roadshows, we added SSLO and Access labs. Across the fall and spring legs, I attended in person in Kansas City (twice!), St. Louis, Cincinnati, Columbus, Omaha, and (soon) Chicago and talked with customers at all stages of the automation journey. Some haven't automated much of anything. Some have been using a variety of on-/off-box scripts, and some are all-in, baby! \n That said, when I ask about AS3 as a tool in their tool belt, not that many have adopted or even investigated it yet. For classic BIG-IP AS3 is not a requirement, but in BIG-IP Next, AS3 is a critical component as it's THE underlying configuration language for all applications. Because of this, I did a five-part live stream series in December to get you started with AS3. Details below. \n Beyond Imperatives—What the heck is AS3? \n In this first episode, I covered the history of automation on BIG-IP, the differences between imperative and declarative models, and the basics of AS3 from data structure and systems architecture perspectives. \n Top 10 Features to Know in the VSCode F5 Extension \n Special guest and friend of the show Ben Novak, author of the F5 Extension for VSCode, joined me to dig into the features most important to know and learn to use for understanding how to take stock BIG-IP configurations and turn applications into declarations. \n Migrating and Deploying Applications in VSCode \n In this episode, armed with the knowledge I learned from Ben in the last episode, I dug into the brass tacks of AS3! I reviewed diagnostics and migrated applications from standard configuration to AS3 declarations and deployed as well. For migrating active workloads, I discussed the steps necessary to reduce transition impact. \n Creating New Apps and Using Shared Objects \n I've always tried to alter existing things before creating new things with tech, and this is no different. Now that I had a few migrations under my belt, I attacked a net-new application and looked at shared objects and how and when to use them. \n Best Practices \n Finally, I closed this series with a look at several best practices when working with AS3. 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In this article, I will get closer to the brass tacks of tackling some technical tasks, but still hover over the trenches so I can lay a little more groundwork into the components of the BIG-IP Next: Central Manager and instances. \n \n \n Central Manager \n The Central Manager is the brains of the operation, and aptly named since it is the centralized location where most management tasks regarding BIG-IP Next instances will coalesce. Gone are the days of logging into BIG-IP devices. It won't be supported! \n Also gone are the days of creating a node to create a pool and creating some profiles and iRules and snat pools and then slapping all that together on a virtual server. That's not to say that some shared objects won't exist--they will, or at least they can. In classic BIG-IP, the virtual server was the \"top dog\" from an object perspective unless you already have used iApps or AS3 declarations, in which case those options are similar to what we have with BIG-IP Next, where the application service wears the crown. Everything about that application service is defined within that context, including multiple virtual servers where necessary. That will be done in the GUI via application templates, or via the API with AS3 directly or via FAST templates. The included http application template in the Central Manager GUI allows for a lot of checkbox functionality, but accessing some of the functionality you may be used to will require additional or edited templates. \n \n Beyond managing the instances and the application services, you'll also be able to manage your security policies, attack and bot signature security services updates and monitor/report on deployed policies. \n And of course, you'll be able to manage users and performance maintenance on the Central Manager system itself. \n There is no license required for Central Manager; you can download it now and get started with your discovery as soon as you're ready! I have it installed on my iMac in VMware Fusion currently, and I'll be writing articles in the next couple of weeks on installation for Fusion and ESXi. \n Instances \n Whereas Central Manager is the brain of the BIG-IP Next operation, the instances are the brawn. They can take the form of a tenant on F5 VELOS or rSeries hardware, a KVM and/or VMware Virtual Edition for private clouds and coming soon, or a Virtual Edition on select public clouds. (Note: Instances can also take the form of CNFs in headless kubernetes deployments, but that won't be addressed in this series.) \n Onboarding instances is not as complex a process as setting up classic BIG-IP because day one operations are not intermingled with day two and beyond. You define the CPU, memory, disk, and network resources you need depending on what modules you're licensing for use and fire it up. Once that candle is lit, you run through a few onboarding steps with either a postman collection or write an onboarding script to walk through those steps for you. That's it for setup on the instances; the rest of the process is managed on Central Manager. \n Limited access will be available on instances for troubleshooting through a sidecar proxy, but even that is configured and managed through Central Manager. \n Instances are licensed. Make sure to check with your account team; you might already be entitled to BIG-IP Next licensing, but a conversion transaction will be necessary. For lab discovery, you can generate a trial license on MyF5 to get started! I'll cover installation on KVM, Fusion, and ESXi in the next couple of weeks. Leon Seng has already written up installing a BIG-IP Next instance on Proxmox! \n \"Next\" Up \n Alrighty then! Enough talk, Jason, let's do something! I hear you, I hear you...starting next week, I'll be releasing incremental steps into the installation, onboarding, licensing, upgrading, backup/restore, etc, of both the Central Manager and the instances. Here's the general workflow I'll follow: \n \n Ignore the platform. I'll step through all the support versions I have access to and keep placeholders to circle back as more platforms are supported. 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I am using the download links from above in the example below. \n proxmox $ curl -O -L -J [link for Central Manager from F5 downloads]\nproxmox $ curl -O -L -J [link for Next from F5 downloads] \n On the Proxmox host, extract the contents in the QCOW files. You will need to rename the Central Manager file from .qcow to .qcow2. \n proxmox $ cd ~/\nproxmox $ mv BIG-IP-Next-CentralManager-20.2.1-0.3.25.qcow BIG-IP-Next-CentralManager-20.2.1-0.3.25.qcow2\nproxmox $ tar -zxvf BIG-IP-Next-20.2.1-2.430.2+0.0.48.qcow2.tar.gz\nBIG-IP-Next-20.2.1-2.430.2+0.0.48.qcow2\nBIG-IP-Next-20.2.1-2.430.2+0.0.48.qcow2.sha512\nBIG-IP-Next-20.2.1-2.430.2+0.0.48.qcow2.sha512.sig\nBIG-IP-Next-20.2.1-2.430.2+0.0.48.qcow2.sha512sum.txt.asc\nBIG-IP-Next-20.2.1-F5-ca-bundle.cert\nBIG-IP-Next-20.2.1-F5-certificate.cert \n Then, run the command below to create a virtual machine (VM) from the extracted QCOW files. replace the values to match your environment. \n #\n# Central Manager\n#\n# use either DHCP or Static IP example\n#\n# using DHCP (change values to match your environment)\nproxmox $ qm create 105 --memory 16384 --sockets 1 --cores 8 --net0 virtio,bridge=vmbr0 --name my-central-manager --scsihw=virtio-scsi-single --ostype=l26 --cpu=x86-64-v2-AES --citype nocloud --ipconfig0 ip=dhcp --ciupgrade=0 --ide2=local-lvm:cloudinit\n# static IP (change values to match your environment)\n# proxmox $ qm create 105 --memory 16384 --sockets 1 --cores 8 --net0 virtio,bridge=vmbr0 --net1 virtio,bridge=vmbr1 --name my-central-manager --scsihw=virtio-scsi-single --ostype=l26 --cpu=x86-64-v2-AES --citype nocloud --ipconfig0 ip=192.168.1.5/24,gw=192.168.1.1 --nameserver 192.168.1.1 --ciupgrade=0 --ide2=local-lvm:cloudinit \n# import disk\nqm set 105 --virtio0 local-lvm:0,import-from=/root/BIG-IP-Next-CentralManager-20.2.1-0.3.25.qcow2 --boot order=virtio0\n\n#\n# Next instance\n# \n# Note that you need at least two interfaces, one for management and one for data-plane\n#\n# use either DHCP or Static IP example\n#\n# DHCP\nproxmox $ qm create 107 --memory 16384 --sockets 1 --cores 8 --net0 virtio,bridge=vmbr0 --net1 virtio,bridge=vmbr1 --name my-next-instance --scsihw=virtio-scsi-single --ostype=l26 --cpu=x86-64-v2-AES --citype nocloud --ipconfig0 ip=dhcp --ciupgrade=0 --ciuser=admin --cipassword=admin --ide2=local-lvm:cloudinit\n# static IP\n# proxmox $ qm create 107 --memory 16384 --sockets 1 --cores 8 --net0 virtio,bridge=vmbr0 --net1 virtio,bridge=vmbr1 --name my-next-instance --scsihw=virtio-scsi-single --ostype=l26 --cpu=x86-64-v2-AES --citype nocloud --ipconfig0 ip=192.168.1.7/24,gw=192.168.1.1 --nameserver 192.168.1.1 --ciupgrade=0 --ciuser=admin --cipassword=admin --ide2=local-lvm:cloudinit \n# import disk\nproxmox $ \nproxmox $ qm set 107 --virtio0 local-lvm:0,import-from=/root/BIG-IP-Next-20.2.1-2.430.2+0.0.48.qcow2 --boot order=virtio0\n\n \n You should now see a new VM created on the Proxmox GUI. \n \n Finally, start the VM. 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It supports concurrent processing, handles various URL formats, and provides detailed reports on HTTP responses, TLS versions, and connectivity status, making it useful for migrations and routine maintenance. ","introduction":"","metrics":{"__typename":"MessageMetrics","views":711},"postTime":"2024-08-20T05:00:00.039-07:00","lastPublishTime":"2024-09-04T09:43:48.631-07:00","body@stripHtml({\"removeProcessingText\":true,\"removeSpoilerMarkup\":true,\"removeTocMarkup\":true,\"truncateLength\":-1})":" The Motivation Behind VIPTest \n As an F5 Solutions Architect, I noticed a recurring challenge with prospective customers: there was no quick way to \"grade\" the success of migrating from their current environment to F5 solutions. This gap made it difficult to quickly identify and address problem areas. To solve this, I developed VIPTest - a tool designed as a convenience for anyone considering moving their applications from a different vendor solution (e.g., Citrix NetScaler) to F5. \n However, VIPTest's utility extends far beyond migration scenarios. It can be used in any environment where you introduce a change and need an automated process to assess the success of these changes. Whether you're upgrading software, modifying configurations, or performing routine maintenance, VIPTest provides a rapid, comprehensive snapshot of your application landscape. \n F5's Application Services and Security Solutions \n Before we dive into VIPTest, let's briefly explore F5's three new families of Application Services and Security solutions: \n \n \n F5 Distributed Cloud (XC): A SaaS-based security, networking, and application management solution that provides multi-cloud networking, web application and API protection, and edge-based computing. \n \n \n BIG-IP Next: The next generation of F5's flagship product, offering advanced traffic management, security, and analytics in a more flexible, software-first architecture. \n \n \n NGINX: A suite of cloud native technologies that provide API gateway, reverse proxy, and application security, known for its high performance and scalability. \n \n \n With VIPTest, you can confidently introduce changes to any of these solutions and quickly assess their impact. It's equally valuable for evaluating initial migrations and for ongoing operational changes within the same solution. \n The Problem VIPTest Solves \n Customers often lack a quick, automated way to assess the impact of environment changes on their applications. VIPTest addresses this by providing: \n \n Fast, concurrent testing of multiple URLs \n Pre and post-change comparisons \n Detection of improvements (e.g., TLS upgrades, HTTP/1.1 to HTTP/2 upgrades) and issues (e.g., broken connectivity) \n Identification of deprecated applications so you don't wast time testing 'dead' URLs \n Rapid assessment when migrating from another vendor's solution, such as Citrix NetScaler \n A simple mechanism to target just a staging environment during testing by overriding system DNS with static IP entries \n \n Let's explore how VIPTest works and how you can leverage it in your F5 environment. \n How VIPTest Works \n VIPTest, available on GitHub, accepts a CSV file containing URLs and IP addresses. It then: \n \n Validates URLs and IP addresses \n Performs HTTP/HTTPS requests \n Checks TLS versions and ciphers \n Tests connectivity (ping and telnet) \n Reports results for easy comparison \n \n Key Features \n \n \n Concurrent Processing: VIPTest uses Python's multiprocessing module to test as many URLs simultaneously as your client machine can support. On my modest Intel 10th gen / 6 Core laptop, I can test 1000 URLs in less than one minute. \n \n \n Flexible URL Handling: It supports various URL formats, including: \n \n Full URLs (http://example.com) \n IP addresses with ports (192.168.1.1:80) \n URLs with custom ports (https://example.com:8443) \n \n \n \n Detailed Reporting: VIPTest provides information on: \n \n HTTP response codes \n TLS versions and ciphers \n IP resolution \n Connectivity status \n \n \n \n VIPTest works with Linux, Windows (WSL2), and MacOS (Zsh using homebrew). \n Setting Up VIPTest \n See README.md for full installation and useage details. \n \n \n Ensure you have Python 3.8+ installed: \n python3 --version \n \n Create a virtual environment: \n python3 -m venv myenv\nsource myenv/bin/activate \n \n Clone the VIPTest repository: \n git clone https://github.com/tmarfil/viptest.git\ncd viptest \n \n Install requirements: \n pip3 install -r requirements.txt \n \n Make viptest.py executable: \n chmod +x viptest.py \n \n Using VIPTest \n \n \n Create a CSV file with your URLs (see README.md for format details). \n \n \n Run VIPTest: \n viptest.py --csv your_file.csv -c 50 \n This tests URLs concurrently using 50 processes. \n \n \n Save the output: \n viptest.py --csv your_file.csv -c 50 > pre_change_results.log \n \n Make your environment changes. \n \n \n Run VIPTest again: \n viptest.py --csv your_file.csv -c 50 > post_change_results.log \n \n Compare results: \n diff pre_change_results.log post_change_results.log \n \n The Power of HTTPX \n VIPTest leverages the HTTPX client for Python3: \n \n HTTP/2 Support: Enables testing of modern application stacks. \n Automatic Retries: Improves reliability in unstable network conditions. \n Connection Pooling: Enhances performance for multiple requests to the same host. \n Timeout Handling: Prevents hung requests from slowing down the entire test suite. \n \n Concurrent Testing with Multiprocessing \n The Python multiprocessing package is crucial for VIPTest's performance. Here's how it works: \n \n The URL list is divided into chunks. \n Each chunk is processed by a separate Python process. \n Results are collected in a shared queue. \n \n This approach allows VIPTest to test one thousand URLs in less than one minute. The Python code implements this using: \n if args.concurrent:\n chunk_size = len(urls) // args.concurrent\n chunks = list(chunked_iterable(urls, chunk_size))\n processes = []\n for chunk in chunks:\n p = multiprocessing.Process(target=process_urls, args=(chunk, output_queue, counter))\n processes.append(p)\n p.start() \n Automating with CI/CD \n Integrating VIPTest into your CI/CD pipeline ensures consistent testing. Here's a basic GitHub Actions workflow: \n name: VIPTest\n\non:\n push:\n branches: [ main ]\n pull_request:\n branches: [ main ]\n\njobs:\n test:\n runs-on: ubuntu-latest\n steps:\n - uses: actions/checkout@v2\n - name: Set up Python\n uses: actions/setup-python@v2\n with:\n python-version: '3.12'\n - name: Install dependencies\n run: |\n python -m pip install --upgrade pip\n pip install -r requirements.txt\n - name: Run VIPTest\n run: |\n viptest.py --csv testfile.csv -c 50 > test_results.log\n - name: Upload results\n uses: actions/upload-artifact@v2\n with:\n name: test-results\n path: test_results.log \n This workflow runs VIPTest on every push to the main branch or pull request, saving the results as an artifact. \n For GitLab users, a similar pipeline can be created using .gitlab-ci.yml: \n stages:\n - test\n\nviptest:\n stage: test\n image: python:3.12\n script:\n - pip install -r requirements.txt\n - viptest.py --csv testfile.csv -c 50 > test_results.log\n artifacts:\n paths:\n - test_results.log \n Conclusion \n VIPTest empowers F5 customers to confidently make environment changes across all F5 solutions - from Distributed Cloud (XC) to BIG-IP Next and NGINX. By providing quick, comprehensive application testing, it reduces risk and improves the success rate of migrations, upgrades, and day-to-day operations. Whether you're moving from a competitor's solution or optimizing your current F5 setup, VIPTest is an invaluable tool in your toolkit. \n Start using VIPTest today to ensure your applications stay healthy through every environment change! 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With respect to the topic at hand, it’s worth noting that Central Manager itself provides robust native application/security reporting and visibility (see below). \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n With that said, many enterprises prefer to aggregate their various telemetry streams onto a single platform. To that end, BIG-IP Next uses OpenTelemetry for telemetry streaming within the Next infrastructure as well as for data exportation to third-party analytics tools. \n OpenTelemetry (OTEL) is a set of APIs, libraries, agents, instrumentation, and instrumentation standards designed to provide observability for applications through the generation, collection, and description of telemetry data such as traces, metrics, and logs. \n The Otel collector which is a component of the OTEL toolkit provides a proxy to receive, process and export telemetry data including traces, metrics, and logs to a variety of third-party analytics platforms. While many analytics and observability vendors have their own flavor of the collector available, I used the community version, 'collector-contrib' running on a Linux instance for this demonstration. The contrib version affords me the ability to specify a variety of third-party vendor exporters. \n \n According to James McQuivey, PhD of Forrester a 1-minute video is equivalent to 1.8 million words. With that in mind, rather than filling up this page with a little more than 12.6 million words- minus a thousand for each picture — documenting each step here, I've included a short, (a little over 7 minutes) video walkthrough of the configuration process. For a deeper look at the technologies involved, check out the links below. 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For example, if I want to normalize an IPv6 address, I can do so like this: \n % package require ip 1.2 \n% ::ip::normalize ::1 \n0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0001 \n% ::ip::normalize 2001:db8:: \n2001:0db8:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000 \n% ::ip::normalize 2001:0db8:85a3::8a2e:0370:7334 \n2001:0db8:85a3:0000:0000:8a2e:0370:7334 \n Which is great, but the package keyword is disabled in iRules, so we don't have access to those tools and thus have to build them ourselves. Or do we? \n Making Tcl source iRules compatible \n I had an inquiry from my colleague Matt Stovall on the ability to manage IPv6 within iRules. The good news was that there is an argument on the IP::addr command to parse IPv6 addresses. The bad news is that the requirement is for the full IPv6 address but the parsed address returned by IP::addr is the short version: \n Rule /Common/t1 <RULE_INIT>: 2001:0db8:85a3:0000:0000:8a2e:0370:7334 Parsed w/ IP::addr: 2001:db8:85a3::8a2e:370:7334 \n While looking into the problem, I noticed a codeshare entry to compress/expand IPv6 addresses from MVP Kai_Wilke. That is an option for sure. But I also wanted to see what the Tcl source had to say about IP and whether it was possible to make it iRules compatible. Matt needed three functions out of this effort: \n \n Normalizing IPv6 addresses \n Compressing IPv6 addresses \n Getting the IPv6 network prefix given a netmask \n \n In the Tcl ip package, these functions, respectively, are ::ip::normalize, ::ip::contract, and ::ip::prefix, and in reviewing the source, they are native Tcl. This is good! \n proc ::ip::normalize {ip {Ip4inIp6 0}} {\n foreach {ip mask} [SplitIp $ip] break\n set version [version $ip]\n set s [ToString [Normalize $ip $version] $Ip4inIp6]\n if {($version == 6 && $mask != 128) || ($version == 4 && $mask != 32)} {\n append s /$mask\n }\n return $s\n}\nproc ::ip::contract {ip} {\n foreach {ip mask} [SplitIp $ip] break\n set version [version $ip]\n set s [ToString [Normalize $ip $version]]\n if {$version == 6} {\n set r \"\"\n foreach o [split $s :] {\n append r [format %x: 0x$o]\n }\n set r [string trimright $r :]\n regsub {(?:^|:)0(?::0)+(?::|$)} $r {::} r\n } else {\n set r [string trimright $s .0]\n }\n return $r\n}\nproc ::ip::prefix {ip} {\n foreach {addr mask} [SplitIp $ip] break\n set version [version $addr]\n set addr [Normalize $addr $version]\n return [ToString [Mask$version $addr $mask]]\n} \n Within each command procedure, you'll notice there are many more procedures that are referenced, and thus many more that need to be made compliant. Matt made a mermaid dependency chart for each of the top-level functions he needed. Here's the one for normalize: \n \n With that, it just came down to cleaning up the syntax. With iRules, the use of procedures requires the use of the call command. Honing in on the normalize function, here's the before and after of that single procedure: \n ### BEFORE ###\nproc ::ip::normalize {ip {Ip4inIp6 0}} {\n foreach {ip mask} [SplitIp $ip] break\n set version [version $ip]\n set s [ToString [Normalize $ip $version] $Ip4inIp6]\n if {($version == 6 && $mask != 128) || ($version == 4 && $mask != 32)} {\n append s /$mask\n }\n return $s\n}\n### AFTER ###\nproc normalize {ip {Ip4inIp6 0}} {\n foreach {ip mask} [call irule_library::SplitIp $ip] break\n set version [call irule_library::version $ip]\n set s [call irule_library::ToString [call irule_library::Normalize $ip $version] $Ip4inIp6]\n if {($version == 6 && $mask != 128) || ($version == 4 && $mask != 32)} {\n append s /$mask\n }\n return $s\n} \n No heavy lifting required for solid access to time-tested tools developed by the Tcl community! The choice here was to build an iRule called irule_library that will serve as a library of procedures for the necessary ip package functions. 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I utilized the CE software in my home lab to test out deploying BIG-IP Next. \n Loading the Software Into Prism \n \"Prism\" is the management GUI that Nutanix uses to manage your virtual machines. The first step I took was to download the qcow images of BIG-IP Next and BIG-IP Next Central Manager and load them into the Prism image repository. This can be done via the GUI or the CLI. The following is an example of using the CLI to load the images in from a local host that is hosting the qcow images (make sure to expand the tar.gz file of the Next image to get the qcow image). \n acli image.create BIG-IP-Next-CentralManager-20.2.1-0.3.25 source_url=http://192.168.1.2/BIG-IP-Next-CentralManager-20.2.1-0.3.25.qcow image_type=kDiskImage container=default-container-97327794862244\nacli image.create BIG-IP-Next-20.2.1-2.430.2+0.0.48 source_url=http://192.168.1.2/BIG-IP-Next-20.2.1-2.430.2+0.0.48.qcow2 image_type=kDiskImage container=default-container-97327794862244 \n Booting with NoCloud \n In my lab environment, I wanted to use static IP addresses for my virtual machines. Based on the KVM documentation for Next I would need to use the utility cloud-localds to create an ISO image of a NoCloud CDROM image that Next would use to configure a static IP. \n For Central Manager I used the following network interface file \n ethernets:\n ens3:\n dhcp4: false\n addresses: [192.168.1.5/24]\n gateway4: 192.168.1.1\n nameservers:\n addresses: [192.168.1.1]\n version: 2\n \n and for my Next instance \n ethernets:\n ens3:\n dhcp4: false\n addresses: [192.168.1.7/24]\n gateway4: 192.168.1.1\n nameservers:\n addresses: [192.168.1.1]\n version: 2\n \n I then used cloud-localds to generate the ISO image (using /dev/null for an empty userdata file) \n cloud-localds central-manager.iso -H my-central-manager -N central-manager.yaml -m local /dev/null\ncloud-localds next-instance.iso -H my-next-instance -N next.yaml -m local /dev/null\n \n With these ISO images created I uploaded them to Prism as ISO images into the image repository. \n acli image.create central-manager-nocloud source_url=http://192.168.1.2/central-manager.iso image_type=kIsoImage container=[target container]\nacli image.create next-nocloud source_url=http://192.168.1.2/next-instance.iso image_type=kIsoImage container=[target container] \n If you are using DHCP you can omit the YAML file and just use the following: \n cloud-localds central-manager.iso -H my-central-manager -m local /dev/null\ncloud-localds next-instance.iso -H my-next-instance -m local /dev/null\n \n \n Assembling Your Virtual Machine \n After creating the necessary disk images, I could proceed with creating my Central Manager and Next instance. \n The Central Manager instance was pretty straight-forward. 8 vCPU / 16 GB of RAM and a single interface. The CLI commands to create the instance and clone the Central Manager disk and CDROM images. \n acli vm.create my-central-manager memory=16G num_cores_per_vcpu=1 num_vcpus=8\nacli vm.disk_create my-central-manager clone_from_image=\"BIG-IP-Next-CentralManager-20.2.1-0.3.25\"\nacli vm.disk_create my-central-manager cdrom=true clone_from_image=central-manager-nocloud\nacli vm.nic_create my-central-manager connected=true network=management\n# Central Manager also requires specific CPU flags to support x86-64-v2, I found that adding the following allowed it to work OK\nacli vm.update my-central-manager cpu_passthrough=true \n The Next instance requires one important change. You need to disable branding! Normally Nutanix will report that the \"vendor\" is \"Nutanix\". This currently causes an issue that prevents the Next instance from starting properly. I have found that disabling branding will allow the Next instance to start properly. I am also specifying a separate data-plane interface for the Next instance. \n acli vm.create my-next-instance memory=16G num_cores_per_vcpu=1 num_vcpus=8 disable_branding=True\nacli vm.disk_create my-next-instance clone_from_image=\"BIG-IP-Next-20.2.1-2.430.2+0.0.48\"\nacli vm.disk_create my-next-instance cdrom=true clone_from_image=next-instance-nocloud\nacli vm.nic_create my-next-instance connected=true network=management\nacli vm.nic_create my-next-instance connected=true network=external \n \n Onward \n After completing these steps, I was able to successfully bring up a BIG-IP Next Central Manager and BIG-IP Next virtual machine in a Nutanix CE environment. Hopefully this helps you on your journey to BIG-IP Next. 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