/as3-manual

Supplementary manual for F5's AS3 extension, declarative configuration for BIG-IP

Introduction

The AS3 Manual is meant to supplement the AS3 documentation on clouddocs presented here.

Read here: The AS3 Manual

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Sections

The goal of this manual is to provide a comprehensive understanding of AS3 from the ground up. The guide is broken up into the following sections that are organized in a suggested reading order.

  • First Declaration

    This is a quick tour of getting AS3 installed, confirming installation, and deploying a first declaration. At the end of this section is a list of links to official documentation that provides more information for getting up and running.

  • AS3 Modes of Operation

    An overview of different configuration options for AS3. This is directed at network owners and admins when architecting their control planes.

  • Configuring BIG-IP with AS3

    The configuration section provides a primer on AS3 and common BIG-IP configurations. This will be most useful to application owners and network operators that may need to update the configuration of the BIG-IP as new applications are brought online.

  • Templating AS3 with FAST

    The second section will cover some templating strategies, and using F5's FAST templating framework to manage appications within AS3 declarations.

  • Declarative APIs

    A treatise on Declarative APIs and AS3's API philosophy.

  • Reference

    This section has a glossary, links, and AS3 API reference.

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