bigip_iapp_template – Manages TCL iApp templates on a BIG-IP

• Synopsis
• Requirements
• Parameters
• Notes
• Examples
• Status

Synopsis

• Manages TCL iApp templates on a BIG-IP. This module will allow you to deploy iApp templates to the BIG-IP and manage their lifecycle. The conventional way to use this module is to import new iApps as needed or by extracting the contents of the iApp archive that is provided at downloads.f5.com and then importing all the iApps with this module. This module can also update existing iApps provided that the source of the iApp changed while the name stayed the same. Note however that this module will not reconfigure any services that may have been created using the bigip_iapp_service module. iApps are normally not updated in production. Instead, new versions are deployed and then existing services are changed to consume that new template. As such, the ability to update templates in-place requires the force option to be used.

Requirements

The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.

• f5-sdk >= 3.0.16

Parameters

Notes

Examples

- name: Add the iApp contained in template iapp.tmpl
  bigip_iapp_template:
    content: "{{ lookup('template', 'iapp.tmpl') }}"
    password: secret
    server: lb.mydomain.com
    state: present
    user: admin
  delegate_to: localhost

- name: Update a template in place
  bigip_iapp_template:
    content: "{{ lookup('template', 'iapp-new.tmpl') }}"
    password: secret
    server: lb.mydomain.com
    state: present
    user: admin
  delegate_to: localhost

- name: Update a template in place that has existing services created from it.
  bigip_iapp_template:
    content: "{{ lookup('template', 'iapp-new.tmpl') }}"
    force: yes
    password: secret
    server: lb.mydomain.com
    state: present
    user: admin
  delegate_to: localhost

Status

• This module is guaranteed to have no backward incompatible interface changes going forward. [stableinterface]
• This module is maintained by an Ansible Partner. [certified]

Authors

• Tim Rupp (@caphrim007)