f5-bigip cookbook does not work with chef-client 12 due to non-support for library subdirectories

If I understand the readme, setting the members property of f5_ltm_pool will only add members.

I'd like to be able to set the members using this prop.

Proposing adding an additional bool, purge, defaulting to false, which would remove any nodes not in the pool.

Additionally, I'd like the option to delete the node record itself, but I'm not sure if that should just be another property (delete_node_during_purge?) or if there's a better idea.

Wanted to invite discussion before I work towards a solution.

This cookbook looks great. Trying to get started using it, but I'm not sure how is it supposed to be used.

Should every node/vip/pool be defined in a recipe in a wrapper cookbook, and then that cookbook applied to a provisioner node?

Or does it support self updating resources. e.g. use a lwrp in my web-server cookbook, so every web server can register itself with the f5?

During deployment : After putting node into disable stat we want to make sure all current connections with that node drain out and then we want to stop webapp.
and start deployment of new version.

is there any way to check this via this chef cookbook ?

I was running cookbooks for run list: ["f5-bigip", "f5-bigip::ltm_node"]
and recipe ltm_node is just to create a node:

f5_ltm_node 'test-node.test.com' do
address '10.10.10.10'
f5 '10.192.74.111'
enabled true
end

it generates the following error:

Starting Chef Client, version 12.15.19
resolving cookbooks for run list: ["f5-bigip", "f5-bigip::ltm_node"]
Synchronizing Cookbooks:

• chef-vault (2.1.1)
• f5-bigip (0.6.6)
  Installing Cookbook Gems:
  Compiling Cookbooks...
  Recipe: chef-vault::default

• chef_gem[chef-vault] action install (up to date)
  Recipe: f5-bigip::default

• chef_gem[soap4r-spox] action install (up to date)

• cookbook_file[/var/chef/cache/f5-icontrol.gem] action create (up to date)

• chef_gem[f5-icontrol] action install (up to date)
  Converging 5 resources
  Recipe: chef-vault::default

• chef_gem[chef-vault] action install (up to date)
  Recipe: f5-bigip::default

• chef_gem[soap4r-spox] action install (up to date)

• cookbook_file[/var/chef/cache/f5-icontrol.gem] action create (up to date)

• chef_gem[f5-icontrol] action install (up to date)
  Recipe: f5-bigip::ltm_node

• f5_ltm_node[test-node.test.com] action create

  ================================================================================
  Error executing action create on resource 'f5_ltm_node[test-node.test.com]'

  ChefVault::Exceptions::KeysNotFound

  f5/creds_keys could not be found

  Cookbook Trace:

  /var/chef/cache/cookbooks/f5-bigip/libraries/helpers.rb:38:in chef_vault_item' /var/chef/cache/cookbooks/f5-bigip/libraries/loader.rb:94:in create_icontrol'
  /var/chef/cache/cookbooks/f5-bigip/libraries/loader.rb:82:in add_lb' /var/chef/cache/cookbooks/f5-bigip/libraries/loader.rb:71:in load_balancer'
  /var/chef/cache/cookbooks/f5-bigip/libraries/provider_ltm_node.rb:40:in `load_current_resource'

  Resource Declaration:

  In /var/chef/cache/cookbooks/f5-bigip/recipes/ltm_node.rb

  1: f5_ltm_node 'test-node.test.com' do
  2: address '10.10.10.10'
  3: f5 '10.192.74.111'
  4: enabled true
  5: end

  Compiled Resource:

  Declared in /var/chef/cache/cookbooks/f5-bigip/recipes/ltm_node.rb:1:in `from_file'

  f5_ltm_node("test-node.test.com") do
  provider Chef::Provider::F5LtmNode
  action :create
  retries 0
  retry_delay 2
  default_guard_interpreter :default
  node_name "test-node.test.com"
  enabled true
  declared_type :f5_ltm_node
  cookbook_name "f5-bigip"
  recipe_name "ltm_node"
  address "10.10.10.10"
  f5 "10.192.74.111"
  end

  Platform:

  x86_64-linux

Running handlers:
[2017-04-06T15:30:15-07:00] ERROR: Running exception handlers
Running handlers complete
[2017-04-06T15:30:15-07:00] ERROR: Exception handlers complete
Chef Client failed. 0 resources updated in 06 seconds
[2017-04-06T15:30:15-07:00] FATAL: Stacktrace dumped to /var/chef/cache/chef-stacktrace.out
[2017-04-06T15:30:15-07:00] FATAL: Please provide the contents of the stacktrace.out file if you file a bug report
[2017-04-06T15:30:15-07:00] ERROR: f5_ltm_node[test-node.test.com] (f5-bigip::ltm_node line 1) had an error: ChefVault::Exceptions::KeysNotFound: f5/creds_keys could not be found
[2017-04-06T15:30:15-07:00] FATAL: Chef::Exceptions::ChildConvergeError: Chef run process exited unsuccessfully (exit code 1)

F5 12.1 is out and includes iworkflow 2.0 which has an api designed specifically for configuration management tools

press release

http://www.networkworld.com/article/3071736/cloud-computing/new-f5-software-addresses-the-needs-of-an-increasingly-digital-world.html

Any plans to support the new api?

@pmotch

According to DCP's email, he's good. Can we flip the switch to make F5 a public repo?

ok so after a night of sleeping on it address = name and a test this morning as well if the node exists with a name. Sorry about the confusion.

Hi
I am trying to run this cookbook ,but always got the error below :
ERROR: f5_ltm_node[10.10.10.10-11.11.11.11] had an error: ChefVault::Exceptions::KeysNotFound: f5/creds_keys could not be found

I have created the data_bags/f5/creds.json, which is exactly as the same as https://github.com/target/f5-bigip-cookbook/blob/master/test/integration/data_bags/f5/creds.json

And my attributes are as below:

Databag where creds are stored
default['f5-bigip']['credentials']['databag'] = 'f5'
default['f5-bigip']['credentials']['item'] = 'creds'
default['f5-bigip']['credentials']['key'] =''
default['f5-bigip']['credentials']['host_is_key'] = false
default['f5-bigip']['provisioner']['databag'] = 'f5-provisioner'

Could anyone help me with that ? Thanks!

The key for specifying the member address is address and not name

I have a scenario in which the node status in f5 needs to be checked if it is enabled or disabled and then to deploy the node. Does f5-bigip-cookbook has a feature to test this?