How it works...
We use the bigip_virtual_server module to provision the required virtual server on the BIG-IP appliance, by specifying the parameters defined in the web_app.yml file. We also define and provision the profiles that need to be applied to the newly created virtual server. These profiles are the HTTP and SSL profiles. These profiles are already created by default on the BIG-IP node, and in a case where we need to create custom profiles, we need to create these in a separate task, using the appropriate Ansible module.
Running this last task, we can see that the Virtual Server is created, as illustrated in the following screenshot:
In this last task, we have created a functional service VIP on the LTM node, in order to start processing ...
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