Automate and orchestrate with Red Hat and F5
Take advantage of the full application programming interface (API) support of F5 using Red Hat® Ansible® Automation Platform.
Businesses are looking for ways to improve modern and legacy applications using DevOps to eliminate bottlenecks and automation to speed up workflows. These applications need traditional delivery services like identity and access management, web application security, and TCP optimization to make sure they maintain performance and security. In addition, the open nature of the internet exposes organizations to cyber attacks from any location, and the scale and complexity of these attacks can put any system at risk.
Ansible Automation Platform’s network automation framework includes native support for both legacy, standalone, and next-generation network devices.
F5 users can automate and orchestrate using Ansible Automation Platform through a series of integrations across their portfolio, including the following solutions:
- F5 BIG-IP and BIG-IQ with API-called modules for imperative and declarative automation. These modules use the full API support implemented on F5 BIG-IP hardware and virtual platforms.
- A declarative collection that includes automation actions for common tasks such as saving config, backing up config, uploading security policies, uploading certificates and keys, and gathering info, among other capabilities.
- F5 OS devices automate through the API, managing Velos chassis and rSeries platform life cycles as well as F5OS tenant and partition management.
This combined solution offers benefits such as:
- End-to-end automation
End-to-end automation allows the use of F5 BIG-IP in application deployment.
- A native interface
The combined solution makes use of the native APIs of BIG-IP
- Improved compliance
Ansible F5 modules follow best practices and help maintain continuous compliance.
- An agentless nature
Since Ansible Automation Platform is agentless, there is no new software to install on F5 devices, including BIG-IP.
- Speed and consistency
The combined solution offers improved configuration and automation speed and consistency.
Collections are a distribution format for Ansible content that can include playbooks, roles, modules, and plugins. You can install and access the certified collections through the Red Hat Ansible Automation Hub in the Hybrid Cloud Console.
