F5 Rolling Deployments with Ansible
Rolling deployments is well covered in the Ansible Docs. This post is about using those rolling deployments patterns but with F5 Load Balancers. These techniques use the F5 modules require BIG-IP software version >= 11 and have been tested with Ansible 1.9.4. There are a couple of things to examine before doing one of these deployments: Preflight Checks Ansible’s pre_tasks / post_tasks Preflight Checks If you’re using a pair of F5s for High Availability, consider having a preflight check play to ensure your configurations are in sync and determine your primary F5:...