By the end of this lab you will be able to instantiate, configure and operate F5 VNF Manager product to deploy Gilan BIG-IP blueprint. Follow the lab guide and support personnel instructions to create and start UDF VNFm environment

• About F5 Virtual Network Function Manager (VNFM)
• Part I. Review and prepare UDF Openstack environment
  • Blueprint setup
  • Credentials
  • Start UDF environment
  • Review Openstack configuration
  • Verify BIG-IQ route
• VNF Manager deployment Prerequisites
  • Prerequisites
  • F5 VNFM Solutions
  • F5 blueprint
• Part II: Deploy F5 VNF Manager
  • Step 1: Launch an instance in OpenStack
  • Step 2: Add a floating IP
  • Step 3: Access F5 VNFM UI
  • Step 4: Manage secrets
  • Step 5: Define parameters in the inputs.yaml file
• Part III. Deploy local F5 Gilan blueprint and create traffic server VM
  • Step 1. Deploy Gilan blueprint
  • Step 2. Stand up traffic server VM
  • Step 3. Run test traffic to validate connectivity
• Part IV. Trigger auto scale-out
  • Step 1. Run Apache Bench from traffic_gen VM
  • Step 2. Watch BIG-IP and Nagios statistics, scaleout process in VNF manager
• Part V. Initiate manual scale-out
  • Step 1. Execute Scale-out workflow
  • Step 2. Modify openstack route
  • Step 3. Run test traffic
• Part VI. Configuration change
  • Step 1. Check Existing VNF BIG-IP configuration
  • Step 2. Apply updated AS3 configuration
  • Step 3. Validate configuration change
• Part VII. (Optional) Uninstall workflow

Reference documents

• VNF manager Workflows
  • The Install Workflow
  • The Scale Workflow
  • The Heal Workflow
  • Update FW layer configuration Workflow
  • The Uninstall Workflow
• Use the Secret Store
  • Secrets with a hidden value
  • Updating a secret with a shown value
  • Updating a secret with a hidden value
• Sample Gi LAN Inputs File