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Deploy F5 Large-IP Virtual Edition VM in Azure

This tutorial walks you lot through the end to end procedure of deploying Large-IP Vitural Edition (VE) in Azure IaaS. By the end of this tutorial y'all should take:

A fully prepared BIG-IP Virtual Car (VM) for modeling a Secure Hybrid Access (SHA) proof of concept
A staging instance to use for testing new BIG-IP system updates and hotfixes

Prerequisites

Prior F5 BIG-IP experience or knowledge isn't necessary, however, we do recommend familiarizing yourself with F5 BIG-IP terminology. Deploying a BIG-IP in Azure for SHA requires:

A paid Azure subscription or a free 12-month trial subscription.
Any of the following F5 Large-IP license SKUs
- F5 Large-IP® All-time bundle
- F5 Big-IP Admission Policy Manager™ (APM) standalone license
- F5 BIG-IP Access Policy Manager™ (APM) addition license on an existing BIG-IP F5 BIG-IP® Local Traffic Manager™ (LTM)
- ninety-day BIG-IP full characteristic trial license.
A wildcard or Subject field Alternative Name (SAN) certificate, to publish web applications over Secure Socket Layer (SSL). Let's encrypt offers gratis 90 days certificate for testing.
An SSL certificate for securing the Big-IPs management interface. A certificate used to publish spider web apps can be used, if its subject area corresponds to the BIG-IP'southward Fully qualified domain proper noun (FQDN). For example, a wildcard certificate divers with a subject *.contoso.com would exist suitable for https://large-ip-vm.contoso.com:8443

VM deployment and base system configs have approximately thirty minutes, at which point your BIG-IP platform will exist set up for implementing any of the SHA scenarios listed in Integrate F5 BIG-IP with Azure Active Directory.

For testing the scenarios, this tutorial assumes the BIG-IP volition be deployed into an Azure resource grouping containing an Active Directory (AD) environment. The environment should consist of a Domain Controller (DC) and web host (IIS) VMs. Having these servers in other locations to the BIG-IP VM is likewise ok, providing the Big-IP has line of sight to each of the roles required to support a given scenario. Scenarios where the Large-IP VM is connected to some other environment over a VPN connection are likewise supported.

If yous don't take the items mentioned here for testing, you may deploy an entire Advertizing domain surroundings into Azure, using this script. A drove of sample test applications tin can also be programmatically deployed to an IIS web host using this scripted automation.

[!Note] The Azure portal is constantly evolving, so some of the steps in this tutorial may differ from the actual layout observed in the Azure portal.

Azure deployment

A BIG-IP can be deployed in different topologies. This guide focuses on a single network interface (NIC) deployment. Nevertheless, if your BIG-IP deployment requires multiple network interfaces for loftier availability, network segregation, or more than than ane-GB throughput, consider using F5's pre-compiled Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates.

Consummate the following tasks to deploy Large-IP VE from the Azure Market.

Log into the Azure portal with an account, which has permissions to create VMs. For example, Contributor
In the top ribbon search box blazon marketplace, followed past Enter
Blazon F5 into the Marketplace filter, followed by Enter
Select + Add from the top ribbon and type F5 into the market place filter, followed past Enter
Select F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition (BYOL) > Select a software plan > F5 Large-IP VE - ALL (BYOL, two Boot Locations)
Select Create.

The image shows steps to select a software plan

Step through the Basics carte du jour and use the following settings

Project details	Value
Subscription	Target subscription for the BIG-IP VM deployment
Resource grouping	Existing Azure Resources Group the BIG-IP VM will exist deployed into or create 1. Should be the same resource grouping of your DC and IIS VMs
Case details
VM Proper name	Example Large-IP-VM
Region	Target Azure geo for BIG-IP-VM
Availability options	Only enable if using VM in product
Image	F5 BIG-IP VE - ALL (BYOL, 2 Kick Locations)
Azure Spot example	No but feel free to enable if appropriate
Size	Minimum specification should be two vCPUs and 8-Gb retentivity
Ambassador business relationship
Authentication type	Select password for now. Yous can switch to a key pair afterwards
Username	The identity that will be created every bit a BIG-IP local account for accessing its direction interfaces. Username is CASE sensitive.
Password	Secure admin access with a strong password
Inbound port rules
Public inbound ports	None

Select Next: Disks leaving all the defaults and select Next: Networking.
On the Networking menu, complete these settings.

Network interface	Value
Virtual network	Aforementioned Azure VNet used by your DC and IIS VMs, or create i
Subnet	Aforementioned Azure internal subnet as your DC and IIS VMs, or create one
Public IP	None
NIC Network Security Group	Select None if the Azure subnet you selected in the previous steps is already associated with a Network security group (NSG); otherwise select Basic
Accelerate Networking	Off
Load balancing
Load residue VM	No

Select Adjacent: Management and complete these settings.

Monitoring	Value
Detailed monitoring	Off
Kick diagnostics	Enable with custom storage account. Allows connecting to the BIG-IP Secure Shell (SSH) interface via the Serial Panel option in the Azure portal. Select whatever available Azure storage account
Identity
System assigned managed identity	Off
Azure Active Directory	Large-IP doesn't currently support this selection
Autoshutdown
Enable Auto shutdown	If testing, consider setting the BIG-IP-VM to shut-down daily

Select Side by side: Avant-garde leaving all the defaults and select Next: Tags.
Select Side by side: Review + create to review your BIG-IP-VM configurations, before selecting Create to kicking-of the deployment.
Time to fully deploy a Large-IP VM is typically 5 minutes. When complete don't select Go to resource, rather aggrandize the Azure portal's left-hand menu and select Resource groups to navigate to your new Large-IP-VM. If the VM creation fails, select Back and Side by side.

Network configuration

When the BIG-IP VM beginning boots, its NIC will be provisioned with a Master individual IP issued by the Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) service of the Azure subnet it'southward connected to. This IP will exist used past the BIG-IP'southward Traffic Management Operating Arrangement (TMOS) to communicate with:

Communicating with other hosts and services
Outbound access to the public internet
Inbound access to the Big-IPs web config and SSH direction interfaces

Exposing either of these direction interfaces to the internet increases the Big-IPs attack surface, hence why the BIG-IPs primary IP was not provisioned with a public IP during deployment. Instead, a secondary internal IP and associated public IP volition be provisioned for publishing services. This 1 to 1 mapping between a VM public IP and individual IP enables external traffic to reach a VM. All the same, an Azure NSG rule is as well required to permit the traffic, in much the same mode as a firewall.

The diagram shows a single NIC deployment of a BIG-IP VE in Azure, configured with a primary IP for general operations and management, and a separate virtual server IPs for publishing services. In this arrangement, an NSG rule allows remote traffic destined for intranet.contoso.com to route to the public IP for the published service, before beingness forwarded on to the BIG-IP virtual server.

The image shows the single nic deployment By default, individual and public IPs issued to Azure VMs are e'er dynamic, and then volition probable alter on every restart of a VM. Avoid unforeseen connectivity issues by changing the Large-IPs management IP to static and do the same to secondary IPs used for publishing services.

From your BIG-IP VM's card, get to Settings > Networking
In the networking view, select the link to the right of Network Interface

The image shows the network config

[!NOTE] VM names are randomly generated during deployment.

In the left-hand pane, select IP configurations and then select ipconfig1 row
Gear up the IP Consignment option to static and if necessary, alter the BIG-IP VMs primary IP address. Then select Save and close the ipconfig1 carte du jour

[!NOTE] You'll use this primary IP to connect and manage the BIG-IP-VM.

Select + Add on the summit ribbon and provide a name for a secondary individual IP, for example, ipconfig2
Gear up the Allocation option of the individual IP address settings to Static. Providing the next higher or lower consecutive IP helps go along things orderly.
Set the Public IP accost to Associate and select Create
Provide a proper noun for the new public IP accost, for instance, Big-IP-VM_ipconfig2_Public
If prompted, fix the SKU to Standard
If prompted, set the Tier to Global and
Set the Assignment selection to Static, and so select OK twice

Your BIG-IP-VM is now ready to set upwards with:

Primary individual IP: Dedicated to managing the Big-IP-VM via its Web config utility and SSH. Information technology will be used by the Large-IP organization as its Self-IP to connect to published backend services. Also, it connects to external services such as NTP, Ad, and LDAP.
Secondary private IP: Used when creating a Large-IP APM virtual server to listen for inbound request to a published service(south).
Public IP: Associated with the secondary private IP, enables client traffic from the public internet to accomplish the Big-IP virtual server for the published service(southward)

The example illustrates the one to 1 relationship betwixt a VM public and private IPs. An Azure VM NIC tin can have only ane principal IP, and any additionally created IPs are always referred to every bit secondary.

[!Note] You'll need the secondary IP mappings for publishing BIG-IP services.

This image shows all secondary IPs

To implement SHA using the BIG-IP Access Guided Configuration, repeat steps 5-xi to create boosted private and public IP pairs for every boosted service you lot plan to publish via the BIG-IP APM. The same arroyo tin also be used if publishing services using BIG-IPs Advanced Configuration. However, in that scenario you have the selection of avoiding public IP overheads by using a Server Proper noun Indicator (SNI) configuration. In this configuration, a Large-IP virtual server will accept all client traffic it receives, and road information technology onwards to its destination.

DNS configuration

It's essential to have DNS configured for clients to resolve your published SHA services to your BIG-IP-VM's public IP(south).

The following steps assume the DNS zone of the public domain used for your SHA services is managed in Azure. Yet, the aforementioned DNS principles of creating locator tape all the same apply no affair where your DNS zone is managed.

If not already open, aggrandize the portal's left-mitt card and navigate to your BIG-IP-VM via the Resource Groups option
From your Large-IP VM's menu, go to Settings > Networking
In the Big-IP-VMs networking view, select the offset secondary IP from the drop-down IP configuration list and select the link for its NIC Public IP

Screenshot to show the NIC public IP

Below the Settings section in the left-hand pane, select Configuration to bring up the public IP and DNS backdrop menu for the selected secondary IP
Select and Create allonym tape and select your DNS zone from the drop-down list. If a DNS zone doesn't already be, and then it may be managed outside of Azure, or you tin can create 1 for the domain suffix you would accept verified in Azure AD.
Utilize the following details to create the first DNS alias record:

Field	Value
Subscription	Same subscription as the Large-IP-VM
DNS zone	DNS zone that is authoritative for the verified domain suffix your published websites volition apply, for example, www.contoso.com
Proper noun	The hostname you specify volition resolve to the public IP that is associated with the selected secondary IP. Make certain to define the correct DNS to IP mappings. Run across last paradigm in Networking configs department, for example, intranet.contoso.com > xiii.77.148.215
TTL	1
TTL units	Hours

Select Create for Azure to save those settings to public DNS.
Exit the DNS name characterization (optional) and select Save earlier closing the Public IP carte.
Echo steps i through 6 to create additional DNS records for every service you plan to publish using BIG-IP'southward Guided Configuration.

With DNS records in place, y'all can apply whatever of the online tools such as DNS checker to verify that a created record has successfully propagated across all global public DNS servers.

If you manage your DNS domain namespace using an external provider similar GoDaddy, then y'all'll need to create records using their own DNS management facility.

[!NOTE] You can also apply a PC'south local hosts file if testing and frequently switching DNS records. The local hosts file on a Windows PC tin be accessed by pressing Win + R on the keyboard and inbound drivers in the Run box. Just be mindful that a local host tape will merely provide DNS resolution for the local PC, not other clients.

Client traffic

By default, Azure VNets and associated subnets are individual networks that are unable to receive Internet traffic. Your BIG-IP-VM's NIC should be attached to the NSG you specified during deployment. For external web traffic to reach the BIG-IP-VM you lot must define an entering NSG rule to permit ports 443 (HTTPS) and 80 (HTTP) through from the public internet.

From the BIG-IP VM'due south main Overview carte, select Networking
Select Add inbound rule to enter the following NSG rule properties:

Field	Value
Source	Any
Source port ranges	*
Destination IP addresses	Comma-separated list of all BIG-IP-VM secondary private IPs
Destination ports	eighty,443
Protocol	TCP
Action	Permit
Priority	Lowest available value betwixt 100 - 4096
Name	A descriptive name, for example: `Large-IP-VM_Web_Services_80_443`

Select Add to commit the changes, and close the Networking menu.

HTTP and HTTPS traffic from any location volition at present be allowed to accomplish all of your BIG-IP-VMs secondary interfaces. Permitting port 80 is useful in allowing the Big-IP APM to auto redirect users from HTTP to HTTPS. This dominion can be edited to add or remove destination IPs, whenever necessary.

Manage BIG-IP

A BIG-IP system is administered via its web config UI, which can be accessed using either of the following recommended methods:

From a machine inside the BIG-IP's internal network
From a VPN client continued to the BIG-IP-VM's internal network
Published via Azure Advertizement Application Proxy

You'll demand to decide on the virtually suitable method before you can go on with the remaining configurations. If necessary, you can connect directly to the spider web config from the internet past configuring the BIG-IP's chief IP with a public IP. Then adding an NSG dominion to let the 8443 traffic to that primary IP. Brand sure to restrict the source to your own trusted IP, otherwise anyone will be able to connect.

Once ready, ostend you lot tin connect to the BIG-IP VM'due south web config and login with the credentials specified during VM deployment:

If you are connecting from a VM on its internal network or via VPN, connect directly to the BIG-IPs primary IP and web config port. For example, https://<Big-IP-VM_Primary_IP:8443. Your browser will prompt almost the connection being insecure, but you tin ignore the prompt until the BIG-IP is configured. If the browser insists on blocking access, clear its enshroud, and effort over again.
If you published the web config via Application Proxy, and then use the URL divers to access the web config externally, without appending the port, for example, https://big-ip-vm.contoso.com. The internal URL must be defined using the web config port, for case, https://big-ip-vm.contoso.com:8443

A Large-IP organisation can also exist managed via its underlying SSH environment, which is typically used for command-line (CLI) tasks and root level admission. Several options exist for connecting to the CLI, including:

Azure Bastion service: Allows fast and secure connections to any VM within a vNET, from whatever location
Connect straight via an SSH client like PuTTY through the JIT approach
Serial Panel: Offered at the bottom of the Back up and troubleshooting section of VMs carte in the portal. It doesn't support file transfers.
Equally with the web config, you lot can also connect directly to the CLI from the internet by configuring the Big-IP's master IP with a public IP and adding an NSG rule to allow SSH traffic. Once more, be sure to restrict the source to your ain trusted IP, if using this method.

BIG-IP license

A Big-IP system must be activated and provisioned with the APM module earlier it can be configured for publishing services and SHA.

Log back into the web config and on the Full general backdrop page select Activate
In the Base of operations Registration key field, enter the example-sensitive fundamental provided by F5
Go out the Activation Method set to Automatic and select Next, the BIG-IP volition validate the license and display the End-user license agreement (EULA).
Select Accept and wait for activation to complete, before selecting Continue.
Log back in and at the lesser of the License summary folio, select Next. The Big-IP will at present display a list of modules that provide the diverse features that are required for SHA. If yous don't see this, from the primary tab go to Organization > Resource Provisioning.
Cheque the provisioning column for Admission Policy (APM)

The image shows access provisioning

Select Submit and take the alert
Exist patient and wait for the BIG-IP to consummate lighting up the new features. It may bicycle several times earlier existence fully initialized.
When ready select Continue and from the Almost tab select Run the setup utility

[!Of import] F5 licenses are constrained to beingness consumed past a unmarried Large-IP VE instance at any 1 time. There may be reasons for wanting to migrate a license from one case to another, and if doing and then and so be sure to revoke your trial license on the active instance before decommissioning it, otherwise the license will exist permanently lost.

Provision Big-IP

Securing management traffic to and from BIG-IPs web config is paramount. Configure a device direction document to assist protect the spider web config channel from compromise.

From the left-navigation bar, get to System > Certificate Direction > Traffic Certificate Management > SSL Certificate List > Import
From the Import Type drop down list, select PKCS 12(IIS) and Choose File. Locate an SSL web document that has a Discipline proper noun or SAN that will comprehend the FQDN you'll assign the BIG-IP-VM in the next few steps
Provide the password for the certificate then select Import
From the left-navigation bar, become to System > Platform
Configure the BIG-IP-VM with a fully qualified hostname and the timezone for its environs's, followed by Update

The image shows general properties

From the left-navigation bar, go to Organisation > Configuration > Device > NTP
Specify a reliable NTP source and select Add, followed by Update. For example, time.windows.com

You now need a DNS tape to resolve the BIG-IPs FQDN specified in the previous steps, to its main individual IP. A record should be added to your surround'due south internal DNS, or to the localhost file of a PC that will be used to connect to the BIG-IP's web config. Either way, the browser warning should no longer appear when y'all connect to the spider web config directly. That is, not via Application Proxy or any other reverse proxy.

SSL profile

Equally a reverse proxy, a Large-IP system tin deed equally a simple forwarding service, otherwise known every bit a Transparent proxy, or a Full proxy that actively participates in exchanges betwixt clients and servers. A total proxy creates two distinct connections: a front-end TCP customer connexion along with a divide backend TCP server connection, coupled past a soft gap in the middle. Clients connect to the proxy listener on one end, otherwise known equally a Virtual Server, and the proxy establishes a separate, independent connexion to the backend server. This is bi-directional on both sides. In this full proxy mode, the F5 BIG-IP system is capable of inspecting traffic, and therefore interacting with requests and responses is likewise possible. Certain functions such as load balancing and spider web performance optimization, as well as more than avant-garde traffic management services such equally awarding layer security, web acceleration, page routing and secure remote access, rely on this functionality. When publishing SSL-based services, the process of decrypting and encrypting traffic betwixt clients and backend services is handled by BIG-IP SSL profiles.

2 types of profiles be:

Client SSL: The most common way of setting up a BIG-IP arrangement to publish internal services with SSL is to create a Client SSL profile. With a Client SSL profile, a BIG-IP system tin can decrypt inbound customer requests before sending them on to a downstream service. It so encrypts outbound backend responses before sending them to clients.
Server SSL: For backend services configured for HTTPS, y'all can configure BIG-IP to employ a Server SSL profile. With a Server SSL profile, the Large-IP re-encrypts the client request before sending it on to the destination backend service. When the server returns an encrypted response, the BIG-IP system decrypts and re-encrypts the response, earlier sending it on to the client, through the configured Client SSL profile.

Provisioning both, Client and Server SSL profiles will have the Large-IP pre-configured and ready for all SHA scenarios.

From the left-navigation bar, go to Organization > Certificate Management > Traffic Certificate Direction > SSL Certificate Listing > Import
From the Import Type drop downwardly list, select PKCS 12(IIS)
Provide a proper noun for the imported document, such as ContosoWildcardCert.
Select Choose File to scan to the SSL web document who's subject name corresponds to the domain suffix you plan on using for published services
Provide the countersign for the imported certificate then select Import
From the left-navigation bar, go to Local Traffic > Profiles > SSL > Client and then select Create
In the New Client SSL Profile page, provide a unique friendly name for the new client SSL profile and ensure the Parent profile is gear up to clientssl.

The image shows update big-ip

Select the far-right check box in the Document Key Chain row and select Add
From the three drib down lists, select the wildcard certificate you imported without a passphrase, and then select Add > Finished.

The image shows update big-ip contoso wildcard

Echo steps half-dozen-9 to create an SSL server document profile. From the top ribbon, select SSL > Server > Create.
In the New Server SSL Profile page, provide a unique friendly name for the new server SSL profile and ensure the Parent profile is set to serverssl.
Select the far-right check box for the Certificate and Key rows and from the drop-downwards list select your imported certificate, followed past Finished.

[!NOTE] Don't despair if you're unable to procure an SSL document, you tin can use the integrated self-signed Big-IP server and client SSL certificates. Y'all'll merely see a certificate mistake in the browser.

I final stride in preparing a Large-IP for SHA is to ensure it'southward able to locate the resource its publishing and likewise the directory service it relies on for SSO. A BIG-IP has two sources of proper noun resolution, starting with its local/.../hosts file, or if a tape is not found the Big-IP system uses any DNS service it has been configured with. The hosts file method does non apply to APM nodes and pools that use an FQDN.

In the web config, go to System > Configuration > Device > DNS
In DNS Lookup Server Listing, enter the IP address of your environments DNS server
Select Add > Update

As a divide and optional step, you may consider an LDAP configuration to authenticate BIG-IP sysadmins against Advert instead of managing local BIG-IP accounts.

Update BIG-IP

Your Big-IP-VM should be updated to unlock all of the new functionalities covered in the scenario-based guidance. Y'all tin can bank check the systems TMOS version hovering your mouse pointer over the BIG-IPs hostname on the top left of the main folio. Information technology'southward recommended to be running v15.10 and above, obtainable from F5 download. Use the guidance to update the main system OS (TMOS).

If updating the main TMOS is not possible, and then consider at to the lowest degree upgrading the Guided Configuration alone, using these steps.

From the main tab in the Big-IP spider web config become to Access > Guided Configuration
On the Guided Configuration page, select Upgrade Guided Configuration

The image shows how to update big-ip

On the Upgrade Guided Configuration dialog, Choose File to upload the downloaded utilize instance pack and select Upload and Install
When the upgrade has completed, select Continue.

Fill-in Big-IP

With the Big-IP system at present fully provisioned, we recommend taking a full backup of its configuration:

Go to Organization > Athenaeum > Create
Provide a unique File Name and enable Encryption with a passphrase
Set the Individual Keys option to Include to besides back upward device and SSL certificates
Select Finished and wait for the procedure to complete
An operation status will be displayed providing a status of backup result. Select OK
Save the User configuration prepare (UCS) annal locally by choosing the link of the backup and select Download.

As an optional pace, you can also take a fill-in of the entire system deejay using Azure snapshots, which dissimilar the web config backup would provide some contingency for testing between TMOS versions, or rolling back to a fresh system.

                              #                Install modules              Install-module              Az              Install-module              AzureVMSnapshots                              #                Authenticate to Azure              Connect-azAccount                              #                Set subscription by Id              Set up-AzContext              -SubscriptionId                              '<Azure_Subscription_ID>'                                            #Create Snapshot              New-AzVmSnapshot              -ResourceGroupName                              '<E.grand.contoso-RG>'                            -VmName                              '<E.m.BIG-IP-VM>'                                            #Listing Snapshots                              #Get-AzVmSnapshot -ResourceGroupName '<E.g.contoso-RG>'                              #Go-AzVmSnapshot -ResourceGroupName '<E.g.contoso-RG>' -VmName '<E.g.Big-IP-VM>' | Restore-AzVmSnapshot -RemoveOriginalDisk

Restore BIG-IP

Restoring a BIG-IP follows a similar process to the backup and can too exist used for migrating configs between BIG-IP VMs. Details on supported upgrade paths should be observed before importing a fill-in.

Go to System > Athenaeum
Either choose the link of a backup you wish to restore or select the Upload button to browse to a previously saved UCS archive that isn't in the listing
Provide the passphrase for the backup and select Restore

                              #                Authenticate to Azure              Connect-azAccount                              #                Fix subscription past Id              Ready-AzContext              -SubscriptionId                              '<Azure_Subscription_ID>'                                            #Restore Snapshot              Get-AzVmSnapshot              -ResourceGroupName                              '<E.g.contoso-RG>'                            -VmName                              '<E.m.Large-IP-VM>'                            |              Restore-AzVmSnapshot

[!NOTE] At the time of writing, the AzVmSnapshot cmdlet is express to restoring the most recent snapshot, based on date. Snapshots are stored in the root of the VM's resource group. Be aware that restoring snapshots restarts an Azure VM, and so time this advisedly.

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