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  • Standalone nNic (multi NIC) template now supported
    The standalone multi-NIC template, which allows you to specify additional network interfaces (up to 8) for your BIG-IP VE, is now fully supported by F5 Networks. This template is extremely useful when the BIG-IP VE is being used as a traffic controller and requires more than 3 network interfaces.

  • New master election process for auto scale templates
    To increase the efficiency of our auto scale templates, all our BIG-IP auto scale templates now have the ability to seamlessly select a new master BIG-IP VE instance in the event that the original master instance is unavailable. This provides a smoother cluster deployment and ensures your service is uninterrupted.

  • HA-AVSET templates can now deploy in Active/Active state
    The high availability for Azure Availability Sets ARM templates (HA-AVSET) now support configuring both BIG-IP VEs in an active state. This allows organizations to increase capacity and deploy a resilient application infrastructure everywhere through all-active approach and application-level failover. Application scaling uses device and application service clustering to scale beyond the traditional high availability (HA) active/passive device pair to eliminate the need for idle and costly standby resources. See the README file for details.

  • HA-AVSET templates now support up to 20 Azure public IP addresses
    Supporting more IP addresses in the templates reduces the management overhead of adding public IP addresses manually, allowing organizations to efficiently deploy more public IP addresses to service their applications. You can still manually add more than 20 public IP addresses if needed.

  • Virtual server configuration instructions
    All F5 ARM template standalone and cluster README files now include instructions on manually creating virtual servers on the BIG-IP VE. These procedures provide step-by-step guidance on quickly getting your BIG-IP VEs configured to start serving traffic to your servers through the BIG-IP system.

  • Option to send statistics
    All 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. See the individual README files for the types of statistics.

  • Notifications for auto scale templates
    The Auto scale templates now allow you to add multiple emails to make sure you receive notifications when scaling events occur.

  • Matrix for tagged releases
    F5 has created a matrix that contains all of the tagged releases of the F5 ARM templates for Microsoft Azure and the corresponding BIG-IP versions, license types and throughputs available for a specific tagged release. See https://github.com/F5Networks/f5-azure-arm-templates/blob/master/azure-bigip-version-matrix.md.

Experimental

  • Auto Scale based on vCPU
    This release introduces new options for the Azure Auto Scale LTM and WAF templates. In addition to scaling up and down based on bandwidth/throughput, you can now choose to scale based on metrics from the virtual CPU (vCPU). This provides a new level of flexibility, enabling you to more granularly configure scaling thresholds.

  • All-protocol ILB (internal load balancer) support and network failover for 3 NIC template
    Taking advantage of Azure’s preview of the new internal load balancer with all-protocol LB rules, this template deploys the ILB in front of the internal subnet. In an Active-Active deployment, this allows failover to occur extremely fast, with no service principal authentication required.

  • Auto Scale templates can deploy using BYOL licensing via BIG-IQ
    These experimental templates allow you to use a BIG-IQ device to license BIG-IP VEs using BYOL licenses in an auto scale deployment. Additionally, the BIG-IP device(s) in the auto scale deployment will handle revoking licenses from the BIG-IQ LM when an instance is terminated as a part of the scale down process, allowing you more control over your available licenses.

  • Experimental production stack templates launch without a public IP
    These experimental templates now include the ability to launch without a public IP address. 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.

Released on 10/5/17

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