salt.runners.f5¶

Runner to provide F5 Load Balancer functionality

depends:

• pycontrol Python module

configuration:

In order to connect to a F5 Load Balancer, you must specify in the Salt master configuration the currently available load balancers

load_balancers:
  bigip1.example.com:
    username: admin
    password: secret
  bigip2.example.com:
    username: admin
    password: secret

class salt.runners.f5.F5Mgmt(lb, username, password)¶

add_pool_member(name, port, pool_name)¶

Add a node to a pool

check_member_pool(member, pool_name)¶

Check a pool member exists in a specific pool

check_pool(name)¶

Check to see if a pool exists

check_virtualserver(name)¶

Check to see if a virtual server exists

create_pool(name, method='ROUND_ROBIN')¶

Create a pool on the F5 load balancer

create_vs(name, ip, port, protocol, profile, pool_name)¶

Create a virtual server

lbmethods()¶

List all the load balancer methods

salt.runners.f5.add_pool_member(lb, name, port, pool_name)¶

Add a node to a pool

CLI Examples:

salt-run f5.add_pool_member load_balancer 10.0.0.1 80 my_pool

salt.runners.f5.check_member_pool(lb, member, pool_name)¶

Check a pool member exists in a specific pool

CLI Examples:

salt-run f5.check_member_pool load_balancer 10.0.0.1 my_pool

salt.runners.f5.check_pool(lb, name)¶

Check to see if a pool exists

CLI Examples:

salt-run f5.check_pool load_balancer pool_name

salt.runners.f5.check_virtualserver(lb, name)¶

Check to see if a virtual server exists

CLI Examples:

salt-run f5.check_virtualserver load_balancer virtual_server

salt.runners.f5.create_pool(lb, name, method='ROUND_ROBIN')¶

Create a pool on the F5 load balancer

CLI Examples:

salt-run f5.create_pool load_balancer pool_name loadbalance_method
salt-run f5.create_pool load_balancer my_pool ROUND_ROBIN

salt.runners.f5.create_vs(lb, name, ip, port, protocol, profile, pool_name)¶

Create a virtual server

CLI Examples:

salt-run f5.create_vs lbalancer vs_name 10.0.0.1 80 tcp http poolname