v2.9.3

This minor release was for an update to the Marketplace CFT for HA Across Availability Zone cluster solution for the AWS Marketplace release.

Released on 3/23/18

v2.9.2

This minor release was for the following templates on the AWS Marketplace:

• Updates to Marketplace CFTs for HA Across AZs cluster solution for the AWS Marketplace release
• Update to Marketplace CFTs for Auto scale LTM solution for the AWS Marketplace release

Released on 3/8/18

v2.9.1

This minor release was just the housekeeping task of cleaning up merge commit messages. No templates were modified in this release.

Released on 2/27/18

v2.9.0

In addition to minor enhancements and fixes, this release contains the following:

• Support for GovCloud
  All F5 Amazon CFT templates now support the AWS GovCloud region.

• Logging
  F5 AWS CFT templates now capture all deployment logs to the BIG-IP VE in /var/log/cloud/aws. Depending on which template you are using, this includes deployment logs (stdout/stderr), Cloud Libs execution logs, recurring solution logs (metrics, failover, and so on), and more.

• Support for BIG-IP v13.1.0.2
  All F5 Amazon CFT templates now support BIG-IP v13.1.0.2. This release contains a number of new features and fixes. For complete details, see https://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/products/big-ip_ltm/releasenotes/related/relnote-supplement-bigip-13-1-0-2.html and https://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/products/big-ip_ltm/releasenotes/product/relnote-bigip-ve-13-1-0.html.

Released on 2/20/18

v2.8.1

This minor release contained the following changes:

• Updates to the following templates on the AWS Marketplace to support the GovCloud region:
  • LTM auto scale templates (4 templates)
  • HA across AZs templates (12 templates)
• Updated README files to clarify guidance for cluster 2 NIC and all templates that include a prod stack option.

Released on 1/4/18

v2.8.0

Supported template additions in 2.8.0

• Auto Scale based on vCPU
  This release moves the new options for the AWS Auto Scale LTM and WAF templates to fully supported. In addition to scaling up and down based on bandwidth/throughput, you can 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.

• Existing production stack templates launch without requiring EIPs as required in the supported existing stack templates
  The standalone (1, 2, and 3 NIC) and cluster 2 NIC in the same AZ templates have the option of launching without an Elastic IP Address (EIP). 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. Access to the AWS VPC can be achieved using a VPN connection, AWS Direct Connect, or VPC peering.

• Auto Scale WAF and LTM using BYOL licensing via BIG-IQ
  These supported templates allows you to use a BIG-IQ device to license BIG-IP VEs using BYOL licenses in an auto scale WAF or LTM 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 template additions in 2.8.0

• Standalone Multi-NIC
  This experimental multi-NIC template allows you to specify additional network interfaces (up to a total of 8) for your BIG-IP VE. This template is extremely useful when the BIG-IP VE is being used as a traffic controller and requires more than 3 network interfaces.

• Auto Scale templates now deploy with an AWS Network Load Balancer
  The experimental auto scale templates (LTM and LTM/WAF) now deploy with an AWS Network Load Balancer (NLB). These templates previously deployed with an Elastic Load Balancer (ELB). The NLB is a lighter-weight distribution method, and enables the option of not using an upstream AWS load balancer in case you want to use DNS or another method.

v2.7.2

This release was for the following additions to the AWS Marketplace solutions:

• Updated Marketplace Auto Scale WAF templates to use updated AMI Maps
• Updated Marketplace Auto Scale LTM templates to download via CDN

Released on 12/5/17

v2.7.1

This release was for the new BIG-IP VE images in AWS and the updated AMI maps for the F5 CFT templates as a result of the Security Advisory. We recommend new CFT deployments use this release or later. See the note at the top of the main README file for additional information.

Released on 11/24/17

v2.7.0

This release was for adding the note about the Security Advisory to the top level README file. There were no other changes to this repository from v2.6.0. As soon as the BIG-IP VE images are available, will we have another release so all templates will reference the new images.

Released on 11/17/17

v2.6.3

This minor release contains the following modifications:

• Update to the Marketplace HA Across AZs and Autoscale LTM to add CAR support in the Gov Cloud and CDG regions.

Released on 11/09/17