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HenryX_171845
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Oct 29, 2014

Best practice of manage configuration change via iControl and manual interaction

This sounds an Ops question, but it is important to me provided the situations:

 

  • Had an orchestration system to manage bigip via iControl, with some control loop integrated
  • Also has an app team like to modify the config preferably manual by the side

So what's the best practice to manage & define rights to both heads to provide reliable and trustable services, assuming all are to the same partition?

 

Thanks for your thought!

 

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  • Most of the time when we talk about orchestration we address industrialized configuration and proven processes. So it means if you allow direct modification either you are in a fire and forget mode ( you use orchestration just for bulk first configuration phase) or you really take care of configuration state ( your orchestration tools is validating each time that what must be done could be done).

     

    It s not like it s a bad idea. But it moves a little bit the industrialization concept behind orchestration.