The F5 BIG-IP Controller for Marathon makes F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager services available for applications defined in a Marathon environment.

For instruction on how to use this component, see the docs for F5 BIG-IP Controller for Marathon.

For guides on this and other solutions for Marathon, see the F5 Marathon Solution Guides.

We encourage you to use the cc-marathon channel in our f5CloudSolutions Slack workspace for discussion and assistance on this controller. This channel is typically monitored Monday-Friday 9am-5pm MST by F5 employees who will offer best-effort support.

Contact F5 Technical support via your typical method for more time sensitive changes and other issues requiring immediate support.

The official docker image is f5networks/marathon-bigip-ctlr.

Usually the controller is deployed in Marathon. However, the controller can be run locally for development testing.

docker run f5networks/marathon-bigip-ctlr <args>`

Note that these instructions will only work for internal users.

To checkout and build:

git clone https://github.com/f5networks/marathon-bigip-ctlr.git
cd marathon-bigip-ctlr

To build the docker image:

docker build -t IMG_TAG .

To build a docker image with those artifacts:

./build-tools/build-runtime-image.sh