v4.0.1

This maintenance release contains the following changes:

• Fix for bigip2 mgmt init for cluster NNIC static templates (#20).
• Fixed error message for onboard.sh included as JSON data in heat signal (#23).
• Corrected prod stack template names for usage analytics.

Released on 7/5/18

v4.0.0

Supported templates additions in 4.0.0

In addition to minor enhancements and fixes, this release contains the following:

• Prod stack (no public IP) templates
  F5 OpenStack Heat Orchestration templates now include the option of a Prod Stack. This means the templates launch a configuration without creating or assigning a floating IP address on the external network. This allows organizations to operate their BIG-IP VEs privately with no public external access. These templates allow trusted users management access to the BIG-IP VEs and perform ADC functions in private network environments.

• Templates now include additional port lockdown settings
  The OpenStack Heat Orchestration templates now include additional port lockdown options (allow-all, allow-default, allow-none), allowing for greater flexibility.

Experimental templates additions in 4.0.0

• Cluster nNIC template
  This template introduces our nNIC (multi-NIC) solution for clustered deployments. This allows you to specify additional network interfaces (up to a total of 10, including management) for your BIG-IP VE clustered deployment. This template is extremely useful when the BIG-IP VE is being used as a traffic controller and requires more than 3 network interfaces.

• Static and Dynamic IP addressing options
  F5 has created new experimental templates that allow you to deploy OpenStack templates using a statically defined IP address for BIG-IP VE management. These templates (in the Static directories) are useful if there is no DHCP server available, or it it is disabled on the neutron subnet. Alternatively, if you want to use a template that uses DHCP to assign the BIG-IP VE management IP address, use the templates in the Dynamic directories.

• Standalone and cluster licensing using BIG-IQ
  These experimental templates allow you to use a BIG-IQ device to license BIG-IP VEs using BYOL licenses for standalone deployments.

Released on 4/12/18

v3.1.0

In addition to minor enhancements and fixes, this release contains the following:

• Logging
  F5 OpenStack Heat Orchestration templates now capture all deployment logs to the BIG-IP VE in /var/log/cloud/openstack. Depending on which template you are using, this includes deployment logs (stdout/stderr), Cloud Libs execution logs, recurring solution logs, and more.

• Support for BIG-IP v13.1.0.2
  All F5 OpenStack Heat Orchestration templates now support BIG-IP v13.1.0.2. This release contains a number of new features and fixes. For complete details, see https://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/products/big-ip_ltm/releasenotes/related/relnote-supplement-bigip-13-1-0-2.html and https://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/products/big-ip_ltm/releasenotes/product/relnote-bigip-ve-13-1-0.html.

Released on 2/6/18

v3.0.0

Supported template additions in v3.0.0

• Multi-NIC template
  The Multi-NIC (nNIC) template is now fully supported. This template allows you to define the number of network interfaces (NICs) you want to use on your BIG-IP VE implementation (up to a total of 10, including management).

• BIG-IP License Key is no longer required in templates
  In OpenStack, because licensing BIG-IP devices often takes place in a different workflow than onboarding a BIG-IP system, all the templates no longer require you input a BIG-IP license as a part of launching the template.

• Option to send statistics
  All OpenStack templates now include an option to send anonymous statistics to F5 Networks to help us improve future templates. None of the information we collect is personally identifiable. This information is critical to the future improvements of templates, but should you choose not to send statistics, this information will not be sent.

Experimental template additions in v3.0.0

• Auto scale LTM
  This experimental template uses an OpenStack Heat template to launch the deployment of BIG-IP VE LTM instances in an OpenStack Heat Auto Scaling group that can scale arbitrary resources. In this auto scale solution, as thresholds are met, the number of BIG-IP VE LTM instances automatically increases or decreases accordingly. This solution requires you have an existing BIG-IQ device with a pool of BIG-IP VE licenses. See the README file for complete details.

v2.1.0

This release was for adding the note about the Security Advisory to the top level README file. There were no other changes to this repository from v2.0.0.

v2.0.0

• 1 NIC, 2NIC and HA OpenStack Heat Orchestration templates are now supported
  The 1 and 2 NIC and Cluster 2 NIC high availability Heat Orchestration templates are now fully supported by F5 Networks. You can use these templates to easily and confidently launch the BIG-IP VE(s) into an OpenStack Private Cloud.

• New experimental nNIC (Multi-NIC) template
  This new experimental template allows you to define the number of network interfaces (NICs) you want to use on your BIG-IP VE implementation, allowing much more flexibility in these deployments.