What is F5 Application Services 3 (AS3)

This video demonstrates #F5 #Application #Services 3 (AS3) while asking some questions
- Are you already using AS3?
- Not going to use AS3 and why?
- Used AS3 but stopped and why?
Application Services 3 Extension (referred to as AS3 Extension or more often simply AS3) is a flexible, low-overhead mechanism for managing application-specific configurations on a BIG-IP system. AS3 uses a declarative model, meaning you provide a JSON declaration rather than a set of imperative commands. The declaration represents the configuration which AS3 is responsible for creating on a BIG-IP system. AS3 is well-defined according to the rules of JSON Schema, and declarations validate according to JSON Schema. AS3 accepts declaration updates via REST (push), reference (pull), or CLI (flat file editing).

You can use Microsoft Visual Studio Code to validate your declarations, see Validating a Declaration for information.

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[aquabat]

What I don’t like about AS3 is that you’re now locked-in to doing everything via as3 declarations. No gui or cli changes

[James]

I would have liked to see a f5 ltm, fresh on azure say, what do I need to do in the UI to go from first boot to AS3 basic https proxy with a self-signed cert

[brandonwatson]

We are in the middle of trying to start our automation efforts! Lol

AS3, Ansible, ansible gateway and Ansible tower. And Big IQ . Just trying to get a better of understanding of when to use what.

Especially if you don’t want to be tied down to using strictly bigIQ for automation.

[frederickmoki]

Hello. I noticed when trying to perform a declare that the VIP creation tends to overwrite the existing VIP in the partition. Is there a way to run separate declarations without overwriting any of the existing VIPs we previously created?