What is F5 Application Services 3 (AS3)

[@James5976]

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

[@brandonwatson5493]

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.

[@aquabat104]

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

[@MarkDittmer]

Thanks for your feedback. You are correct that AS3 is a declarative API and therefore all changes needs to be updated via the API "AS3 declaration". Once AS3 is posted to BIG-IP you will see the configuration in GUI. However the source of truth is the AS3 json. If AS3 exposed a GUI on BIG-IP to make changes, would that help?

[@axelboersma570]

@@MarkDittmer Definitely will help, so the source of truth will be AS3, but you have the option to fix things quickly via the GUI. And later fix it in the AS3 code itself.

[@frederickmoki273]

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?

[@KyleKlabunde]

either create a new partition, or you need to stack the declarations. i name mine appowner_fqdn_datacenter