Manual Chapter :
Setting up an AWS Cloud Environment
Applies To:
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BIG-IQ Centralized Management
8.4.0,
8.3.0,
8.2.0,
8.1.0,
8.0.0,
7.1.0
Setting up an AWS Cloud Environment
Add
AWS
cloud and environment details
BIG-IQ needs the credentials and parameters for your
AWS
cloud provider and cloud environment so that it can communicate with the
BIG-IP devices it manages in your service scaling group. Also, if you choose
to bring your own license (BYOL) for the devices in this SSG, you need to
activate a pool of BYOL licenses, and then provide details about the license
server when you configure the cloud environment.
Specify credentials required to connect to an AWS cloud
You create a new AWS cloud provider to tell BIG-IQ
how to connect to your AWS cloud environment.
At the top of the screen, click
Applications
then, on the left, click
ENVIRONMENTS
Cloud Providers
.
Click
Create
.
The New Provider screen opens.
Type a
Name
for the provider you are
creating.
To help identify this provider when you want to
use it later, type a brief
Description
.
From the
Provider Type
list, select
AWS
.
Under Provider Details, the
screen display s settings that you use to specify your AWS
credentials.
Type your
Access Key ID
and
Secret Access Key
, and then
click
Test
to confirm
your connection.
Click
Save & Close
.
The system creates the new AWS provider
account, which is now ready to be used in a cloud environment.
Before you can use
this provider to create a BIG-IP VE device in, you need to create the AWS cloud
environment.
Activate a pool of BYOL licenses
Before you can activate a BYOL license, you need to purchase it from
F5 Networks. Once you complete your purchase, you get your base registration key,
typically in the form of an email.
If you
use the
AWS
marketplace licensing
option, skip this task.
When you choose the BYOL license option, you need to activate a pool
of licenses that the BIG-IQ can use for the new BIG-IP VE devices that the service
scaling group (SSG) creates in the cloud. You can use this procedure to automatically
contact the F5 license server for activation.
You can use this BIG-IQ as your license server,
or you can use another BIG-IQ as your license server, as long as it is running BIG-IQ
version 5.4.0 or later.
At the top of the screen, click
Devices
.
On the left, click
LICENSE MANAGEMENT
Licenses
.
Click the
Add License
button.
In the
License Name
field, type a name to identify this license.
In the
Base Registration Key
field, type or paste the registration key, and into the
Add-on Keys
field, type or paste any associated add-on keys.
For the
Activation Method
setting, select
Automatic
.
Click the
Activate
button at the bottom of the screen.
Review the user legal agreement and if you agree, select the
I have read and agree to the terms of this license
check box.
When the activation status displays as
Active
, you can use this pool of licenses
in the cloud environment.
Create an AWS cloud environment for a service scaling group
When you create an AWS cloud environment, you specify the parameters BIG-IQ uses to create BIG-IP VE devices in that environment.
At the top of the screen, click
Applications
then, on the left, click
ENVIRONMENTS
Cloud Environments
.
Click
Create
.
For
Cloud Provider
, select your AWS cloud provider and then select
the region that it's in from the
Region
list.
Under AWS Properties, the
screen fields displays settings that you use to specify details about the AWS
environment.
Type your
Access Key ID
and
Secret Access
Key
, and then click
Test
to confirm your
connection.
Click
Save & Close
.
This AWS cloud environment is available for you to create BIG-IP VE devices in it from BIG-IQ.
