F5 Orchestration using vMWare vRO and BlueMedora plugin!

Introduction

This is just a simple introduction to F5 Orchestration using the vRO BlueMedora plugin. In the following workflow We will create a simple Load Balancing configuration in order to get familiar with vRO and the BM plugin. * Devices are already up and running, licenced, provisionned and attached to vRO

The workflow We will create aims to create: * nodes, * a pool, * a Virtual Server * and SNAT config

There are much more capabilities provided by the BM plugin but it is not covered in this introduction lab

Table of Contents:

introduction

• Introduction
• KEY CONCEPTS OF WORKFLOWS
  • Workflow Parameters
  • Input Parameters
  • Output Parameters
  • Workflow Attributes
  • Workflow Schema
  • Workflow Presentation
  • Workflow Tokens
• System Information
  • Win 7 Jump Box
  • vRO Appliance
  • BIG-IP Information
  • BIG-IP 1
  • BIG-IP 2
  • Lamp Server—Web services

labs

• Tour the vRO Interface
• Create a custom workflow to create a simple Load Balancing configuration
  • Process Tip
  • Create a CustomWorkflows Folder
  • Create a Custom Workflow
  • Create Pool and add it to Custom Workflow
  • Modify presentation layer of custom workflow
  • Add the created Pool Member workflow to the custom workflow
  • Add the Create Virtual Server workflow to the custom workflow
  • Add the Set Virtual Server SNAT to the custom workflow
  • Run the CustomWF1workflow

This is just an introduction. If you have any questions or want to dig further, please contact your F5 sales team.