F5 BIG-IP Declarative Onboarding Documentation

Welcome to the F5 BIG-IP Declarative Onboarding documentation.

This is the documentation for the latest version of BIG-IP Declarative Onboarding, if you want to see the documentation for a long term support (LTS) version, use the version selector on the top left (for details, see Support information on GitHub).

BIG-IP Declarative onboarding (BIG-IP DO) uses a declarative model to initially configure a BIG-IP device with all of the required settings to get up and running. This includes system settings such as licensing and provisioning, network settings such as VLANs and Self IPs, and clustering settings if you are using more than one BIG-IP system. If you want to use a declarative model to configure applications and services on a BIG-IP device that already has these initial settings, see the documentation.

A declarative model means you provide a JSON declaration rather than a set of imperative commands. The declaration represents the configuration which BIG-IP Declarative Onboarding is responsible for creating on a BIG-IP system. You send a declaration file using a single Rest API call.

Important

Beginning with DO 1.36.0, the default value for allowService on a self IP address will be changing from default to none Until then, DO will present a warning in the response whenever DO receives a declaration that creates or modifies a self IP.

The DO RPM, Postman collection, and checksum files can be found on the GitHub Release, as Assets.

You can use Microsoft Visual Studio Code to validate your declarations, see Validating a declaration for information.

This guide contains information on downloading, installing, and using F5 BIG-IP Declarative Onboarding.

Note

To see what’s new in BIG-IP Declarative Onboarding, see the the Document Revision History.

You can also see our BIG-IP Declarative Onboarding overview video:

To provide feedback on this documentation, you can file a GitHub Issue or email us at solutionsfeedback@f5.com.