Automate deployment and configurations of Citrix ADC
Citrix ADC provides multiple tools to automate your ADC deployments and configurations. This document provides a brief summary of various automation tools and references to various automation resources that you can use to manage ADC configurations.
The following illustration provides an overview of Citrix ADC automation in a hybrid multi cloud (HMC) environment.
Automate Citrix ADC using Citrix ADM
Citrix ADM acts as automation control point to your distributed ADC infrastructure. The Citrix ADM provides comprehensive set of automation capabilities from provisioning ADC appliances to upgrading it. The following are the key automation features of ADM:
- Provisioning Citrix ADC VPX instances on AWS
- Provisioning Citrix ADC VPX instances on Azure
- StyleBooks
- Configuration jobs
- Configuration audit
- ADC upgrades
- SSL certificate management
- Integrations - GitHub, ServiceNow, Event notifications integrations
Citrix ADM blogs and videos on automation
- Application migrations using StyleBooks
- Integrate ADC configurations with CI/CD using ADM StyleBooks
- Simplifying public cloud Citrix ADC deployments through ADM
- 10 ways Citrix ADM service supports easier Citrix ADC upgrades
Citrix ADM also provides APIs for its various capabilities that integrate Citrix ADM and Citrix ADC as part of the overall IT automation. For more information, see Citrix ADM Service APIs.
Automate Citrix ADC using Terraform
Terraform is a tool that takes infrastructure as code approach to provision and manage cloud, infrastructure, or service. Citrix ADC terraform resources are available in GitHub for use. Refer GitHub for detailed documentation and usage.
- Citrix ADC Terraform modules to configure ADC for various use cases such as Load Balancing and GSLB
- Terraform cloud scripts to deploy ADC in AWS
- Terraform cloud scripts to deploy ADC in Azure
Videos on Terraform for ADC automation
- Automate your Citrix ADC deployments with Terraform
- Provision and configure ADC in HA setup in AWS using Terraform
Automate Citrix ADC using Ansible
Ansible is an open-source software provisioning, configuration management, and application-deployment tool enabling infrastructure as code. Citrix ADC Ansible modules and sample playbooks can be found in GitHub for use. Refer GitHub for detailed documentation and usage.
Citrix is a certified Ansible Automation Partner. Users having Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform subscription can access Citrix ADC Collections from Red Hat Automation Hub.
Terraform and Ansible automation blogs
Public cloud templates for ADC deployments
Public cloud templates simplify provisioning of your deployments in public clouds. Different Citrix ADC templates are available for various environments. For usage details, refer to respective GitHub repositories.
AWS CFTs:
Azure Resource Manager (ARM) Templates:
Google Cloud Deployment Manager (GDM) Templates:
Videos on Templates
- Deploy Citrix ADC HA in AWS using CloudFormation Template
- Deploy Citrix ADC HA across Availability Zones using AWS QuickStart
- Citrix ADC HA deployment in GCP using GDM templates
NITRO APIs
The Citrix ADC NITRO protocol allows you to programmatically configure and monitor the Citrix ADC appliance by using Representational State Transfer (REST) interfaces. Therefore, NITRO applications can be developed in any programming language. For applications that must be developed in Java or .NET or Python, NITRO APIs are exposed through relevant libraries that are packaged as separate Software Development Kits (SDKs).