Accessing the Nginx Controller

  1. The Nginx Controller has already been deployed with the terraform declaration, we need to find the public IP address.

export controller_ip=$(terraform state show "aws_instance.controller" | grep "public_ip" | grep -v "associate_public_ip_address" | cut -d'"' -f2)
curl -k -c cookie.txt -X POST --url "https://$controller_ip/api/v1/platform/login" --header 'Content-Type: application/json' --data '{"credentials": {"type": "BASIC","username": "nginx@f5.com","password": "Admin2020"}}'
export controller_apikey=$(curl -k -sb cookie.txt -c cookie.txt https://$controller_ip/api/v1/platform/global | jq .currentStatus.agentSettings.apiKey | tr -d '"')

terraform state show "aws_instance.controller" | grep "public_ip" | grep -v "associate_public_ip_address" | cut -d'"' -f2
  1. Change the directory back to the original repo folder:
cd ..
  1. Browse (using HTTPS) to the IP address of the Controller and verify you have access:
Username (email): nginx@f5.com
Password: Admin2020