v4.0.0.0

Supported

• 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

v3.3.3.0

This minor release was for adding Azure Marketplace solution template README files.

Released on 9/8/17

v3.3.2.0

Corrected an issue where the custom script execution was in a varying location.

Released on 8/29/17

v3.3.1.0

Resolved a default route issue for existing stack templates.

Released on 8/15/17

v3.3.0.0

This release contains the following changes:

*Licensing via BIG-IQ: All Azure templates with the exception of Auto Scale WAF and Auto Scale LTM now support licensing BIG-IP VEs using a pool of license on BIG-IQ.

*BIG-IQ 5.2 and 5.3 support: Release 5 adds support for licensing BIG-IP VEs with BIG-IQ versions 5.2 and 5.3. Previously only 5.0 and 5.1 were supported.

*Multi-NIC (experimental): A new template based on the 3 NIC template which allows using more than 3 NICs on BIG-IP VEs deployed in Azure.

*3 NIC Clustered: New templates for deploying a 3 NIC BIG-IP VE in a configsync cluster (Active/Active).

*Deploying into an existing stack support for HA Cluster: Added new templates which provide the ability to deploy the HA cluster templates (1 NIC and 3 NIC) into an existing networking stack.

*Cloud LTM (Auto Scale LTM) in Azure Marketplace: Cloud LTM Auto Scale template has been sent to Microsoft and will be available in the Marketplace pending their approval.

Released on 8/10/17

v3.2.1.0

Added missing dependencies for the HA-AVSET ARM templates.

Released on 6/14/17

v3.2.0.0

This release contains the following changes:

• Service Discovery has been added to templates. Users can tag their resources and configure these tags on BIG-IP to allow automatic addition and removal of pool members.
• High Availability across Availability Sets (HA-AVSET) is now supported: This features allows BIG-IP to run in an active/standby configuration in Azure without the need for Azure Load Balancer. This solution is now fully supported by F5.
• Cloud WAF (AutoScale ASM) is now supported by F5: This is the same AutoScale solution and is now fully supported by F5.
• Azure Resource Templates using premium storage All templates have been updated to use premium storage. This enhancement save 45-90 seconds on average for boot up time at minimal expense to the customer.

Released on 6/22/17

v3.1.4.0

Added supported BIG-IP version tables to all of the README files.

Released on 6/14/17

v3.1.3.0

This release contained the following changes:

Updated all templates to use a new version of F5 Azure cloud libraries (cloudlibs)

Removed an unnecessary template file

Released on 5/25/17

v3.1.2.0

Updated the BIG-IP v13 image in all templates from BIG-IP version 13.0.020 to 13.0.021.