Terraform Provider BIG-IP Next

• BIG-IP Next Terraform provider helps you managing BIG-IP Next devices through BIG-IP Next Central Manager (CM) API.

• BIG-IP Next uses a combination of BIG-IP Next Central Manager and BIG-IP Next instances to implement application delivery and security. The BIG-IP Next Central Manager manages the BIG-IP Next instances, assuming responsibility for all administrative and management tasks. The BIG-IP Next instances, responsible for data processing, provide robust automation capabilities, scalability, and ease-of-use for organizations running applications on-premise, in the cloud, or out at the edge

  For more information:

  F5 BIG-IP Next

Requirements

• Terraform > 1.x
• Go >= 1.19
• GNU Make
• golangci-lint (optional)

Using the Provider

This Terraform Provider is available to install automatically via terraform init. It is recommended to setup the following Terraform configuration to pin the major version:

# Terraform 1.2.x and later
terraform {
  required_providers {
    bigipnext = {
      source  = "f5networks/bigipnext"
      version = "~> X.Y" # where X.Y is the current major version and minor version
    }
  }
}

Documentation, questions and discussions

Official documentation on how to use this provider can be found on the Terraform Registry. In case of specific questions or discussions, please use the HashiCorp Terraform Providers Discuss forums, in accordance with HashiCorp Community Guidelines.

We also provide:

• Support page for help when using the provider
• Contributing guidelines in case you want to help this project

Compatibility

Compatibility table between this provider, the Terraform Plugin Protocol version it implements, and Terraform:

BIG-IP Next Provider	Terraform Plugin Protocol	Terraform	BIG-IP Next CM Version
>= 1.0.0	6	>= 1.x	>= 20.1.0

Details can be found querying the Registry API that return all the details about which version are currently available for a particular provider.

Development

Building

1. git clone this repository and cd into its directory
2. go build will trigger the Golang build

The provided GNUmakefile defines additional commands generally useful during development, like for running tests, generating documentation, code formatting and linting. Taking a look at it's content is recommended.

Testing

In order to test the provider, you can run

• make test to run provider unit tests
• make testacc to run provider acceptance tests

It's important to note that acceptance tests (testacc) will actually spawn real resources, and often cost money to run. Read more about they work on the official page.

Generating documentation

This provider uses terraform-plugin-docs to generate documentation and store it in the docs/ directory. Once a release is cut, the Terraform Registry will download the documentation from docs/ and associate it with the release version. Read more about how this works on the official page.

Use make generate to ensure the documentation is regenerated with any changes.

Using a development build

If running tests and acceptance tests isn't enough, it's possible to set up a local terraform configuration to use a development builds of the provider. This can be achieved by leveraging the Terraform CLI configuration file development overrides.

First, use make install to place a fresh development build of the provider in your ${GOBIN} (defaults to ${GOPATH}/bin or ${HOME}/go/bin if ${GOPATH} is not set). Repeat this every time you make changes to the provider locally.

Then, setup your environment following these instructions to make your local terraform use your local build.

Note: Acceptance tests create real resources, and often cost money to run.

$ make testacc