The F5 BIG-IP Controller for Kubernetes makes F5 BIG-IP [Local Traffic Manager](<https://f5.com/products/big-ip/local-traffic-manager-ltm) services available to applications running in Kubernetes.

For instruction on how to use this component, see the docs for F5 BIG-IP Controller for Kubernetes.

For guides on this and other solutions for Kubernetes, see the F5 Solution Guides for Kubernetes.

We encourage you to use the cc-kubernetes channel in our f5CloudSolutions Slack workspace for discussion and assistance on this controller. This channel is typically monitored Monday-Friday 9am-5pm MST by F5 employees who will offer best-effort support.

Contact F5 Technical support via your typical method for more time sensitive changes and other issues requiring immediate support.

The official docker image is f5networks/k8s-bigip-ctlr.

Usually, the controller is deployed in Kubernetes. However, the controller can be run locally for development testing.

docker run f5networks/k8s-bigip-ctlr /app/bin/k8s-bigip-ctlr <args>

The official images are built using docker, but the adventurous can use standard go build tools.

Prerequisites:

• Docker

git clone https://github.com/f5networks/k8s-bigip-ctlr.git
cd  k8s-bigip-ctlr

# Use docker to build the release artifacts, into a local "_docker_workspace" directory, then put into docker images
# Alpine image
make prod

OR

# RHEL7 image
make prod BASE_OS=rhel7

A normal go and godep toolchain can be used as well

Prerequisites:

• go 1.7
• $GOPATH pointing at a valid go workspace
• godep (Only needed to modify vendor's packages)
• python
• virtualenv

mkdir -p $GOPATH/src/github.com/F5Networks
cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/F5Networks
git clone https://github.com/f5networks/k8s-bigip-ctlr.git
cd k8s-bigip-ctlr

# Build all packages, and run unit tests
make all test

To make changes to vendor dependencies, see Devel