Auto scaling Load balancing with Consul-template + F5 BigIP

[Vicente De Luca]

Hello folks,

wrote a blog post about how I am using Consul + consul-template to generate F5 BigIP load balancers configs.

Thought it might be interesting for some people here, so sharing. 

http://www.nethero.org/post/117953048052/auto-scaling-load-balancing-with-consul-template

Regards,

-- Vicente De Luca

[Vicente De Luca]

When I initially shared this post I was running consul-template on a linux box and using scp/ssh to upload the rendered config to my bigip load balancer.

The good news is consul agent and consul-template runs nicely at bigip platforms (amd64) -- as expected--
updated the blog post with the steps and init tricks to run the agent/template as F5 Networks recommends.     

[Chris Proto]

Great work. I'm currently researching for a similar solution and was pleased to see someone had already successfully gone done this road with BigIP + Consul

[Vicente De Luca]

Hi Chris, I am glad it made sense for you.

This has been launched into production environment a couple of weeks a go, and its working pretty much well.

Uploaded some slides about a presentation I made last week at Airbnb hosted Meetup. It includes the last template version I used.

Reach out if you need any help, will be mostly happy to share any knowledge and hints

--vince de luca

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[Michael Perzel]

I am very interested in this. Do you have the shell script run periodically via a cronjob? I am concerned with how to provide some safeguards around this (at least to start). One possible failure I see is a bad check causes every node to be removed from a pool.

Any ideas?

Michael