Self-Built Environment¶

If you are building your own lab environment please complete the following steps and pre-requisites first:

1. Your network configuration matches the topology in the Lab Topology

2. Ensure your BIG-IP devices are licensed and have the following modules provisioned:

   • LTM
   • ASM

3. Your server instance can be built two ways:

   1. Build or reuse your own instance. If should have the following services installed and running:

      • HTTP Server - TCP/80
      • DNS Server - UDP/53

   2. Use our server image build script located at the url below to configure an Ubuntu 16.04 base installation automatically.

      Note

      Please ensure that HTTP & DNS services are not installed on the base image

      https://raw.githubusercontent.com/f5devcentral/f5-automation-labs/sp/lab_environments/AWS/snops_server_setup.sh

4. Your host should have the following applications installed:

   • Postman v5.3.0 - https://getpostman.com
   • Google Chrome - https://google.com/chrome

5. You will need to install the f5-postman-workflows framework into Postman:

   1. Open Postman
   2. Click the ‘Import’ button
   3. Select ‘Import from Link’
   4. Enter https://raw.githubusercontent.com/0xHiteshPatel/f5-postman-workflows/master/F5_Postman_Workflows.postman_collection.json in the field
   5. Click the ‘Import’ button
   6. Navigate to your Postman Collections
   7. Expand the ‘F5_Postman_Workflows’ collection
   8. Expand the ‘Install’ folder
   9. Click the ‘Install/Upgrade f5-postman-workflows’ items
   10. Click the ‘Send’ button
   11. Verify the installation was successful by:
       1. Examine the response tests and ensure the ‘Install Successful’ test passed
       2. Examine your Postman Global Environment and look for a _f5_workflow_functions item populated with JavaScript code

6. Select how you would like to continue:

   • Review: BIG-IP Basics (optional)
   • Start: Module 1: Imperative Automation with the BIG-IP iControl REST API