Simple F5 BIG-IP Automation with Red Hat® Ansible® Automation PlatformEasy. Scalable. Efficient.No matter the complexity of your environment or where you are on your IT modernization journey, an IT operations automation strategy helps to improve existing processes. With network automation, your network operations teams can configure, scale, protect, and integrate network infrastructure and application services much more quickly and efficiently.
By automating the management of F5 BIG-IP devices, Red Hat® Ansible® Automation Platform helps customers create highly stable, scalable, and responsive application environments via powerful network-automation capabilities. Because its agentless architecture does not require any additional software to be installed on BIG-IP devices, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform makes it efficient and user-friendly to manage configurations on the F5 BIG-IP platform.
Increased Agility and Responsiveness
Automations around F5 BIG-IP devices enable you to cut deployment times and significantly reduce the resources required to manage modern infrastructures. This gives you a more agile and responsive IT infrastructure that can:
➣ Speed response to changing traffic demands by automating the scaling of load balancers for better application availability, scalability and lower latency. ➣ Strengthen security by automating deployment of updates to WAFs. This increases application availability, ensures regulatory compliance, and improves customer trust.
➣ Effectively manage access controls across your entire IT infrastructure to ensure security-proven access and a streamlined user experience, with full audit and compliance.
➣ Ensure network security, reliability, and compliance with automated SSL/TLS certificate management. It improves server performance, simplifies certification management, and enhances security.
Event-Driven Ansible Automation to Streamline Routine Tasks
With automation, you can speed the mean time to resolution for outages or security incidents by following pre-defined playbooks triggered by specific events discovered via telemetry. Tasks can include applying new configurations quickly and consistently, managing users, or investigating suspicious activity. However, your network and security teams may not have sufficient experience with automation technologies to build, implement, and maintain the scripts needed to operate them.
To make automation even easier and more efficient, you can take advantage of pre-built, validated packages that include rules, playbooks, roles, and plug-ins to connect solutions. F5 content collections for Red Hat® Event-Driven Ansible are certified by Red Hat to ensure reliable automation of F5 networking, application delivery, and security solutions. (See the collections table below).
F5 BIG-IP Ansible Automation Platform Collections
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Collection Name
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Primary Use Case
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Connection Plugin
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f5_modules
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BIG-IP Imperative APIs and Tasks
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LOCAL
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f5_bigip
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BIG-IP Declarative APIs and Tasks
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HTTPAPI
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f5os
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F5OS based devices APIs and Tasks
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HTTPAPI
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next
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BIG-IP NEXT and Central Manager APIs and Tasks
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HTTPAPI
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Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform minimizes the need for understanding platform-specific constructs, vendor-specific command lines, implementations, and APIs. This simplifies network automation as your organization takes on increasingly complex cloud-native environments.
To learn more about how Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, together with F5 BIG-IP, makes managing and orchestrating automation across complex environments easy, download the helpful content below.
Helpful F5-Red Hat Network Automation Content
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