I was asked to upgarde 40+ f5 devices in AWS, so i thought it would be best to automate the entire procoess using a simple ansible playbook.

• Inventory list of all the f5s i needed to upgrade (active and standby) for the environment.

ansible-playbook -i inventory/hosts install-os.yaml

mount -o remount,ro /usr

The playbook perfoms the following actions:

• saves the existing configurations
• uploads the latest OS
• installs it on a new partition
• copies the exiting configuration to the new parition and reboots the device
• prints out an output of when its complete

Note:

• I tried to use the bigip_command to execute the cpcfg command but it only works for TMSH commands not CLI/BASH commands.
• if you dont want the device to boot just remove the following.

    - name: Copy the config from HD1.1 to HD1.2 cpcfg --source=HD1.1 --reboot HD1.2    
      raw: curl -u "{{ansible_user}}":"{{ansible_ssh_pass}}" -k https://"{{ansible_host}}":8443/mgmt/tm/util/bash  -H "Content-type:application/json" -d "{\"command\":\"run\",\"utilCmdArgs\":\"-c 'cpcfg --source=HD1.1 --reboot HD1.2'\"}"
      ignore_errors: True
      register: cpcfg

I am sure i will continue to edit this to make it better and learn as I go.. for F5 VEs and physical devices this is the cpfcg command

cpcfg --source=HD1.1 --reboot HD1.3

On a VIPRION system, ensure each blade receives the updated configuration by running the cpcfg command with the clsh utility on the primary blade.

For example:

clsh cpcfg --source=HD1.1 --reboot HD1.3

** Tested in VMware vsphere 6.7 = all good! ** Tested in AWS ** Tested in GCP ** Tested in Azure