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rahvee
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Jul 01, 2022

API, SDK, AS3, oh my?

I am looking for the best long-term, easiest to support, way to automatically manage SSL certs in Big-IP. I found f5-sdk, but it is no longer under active development, since May 30, 2021. I found f...
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Anesh
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Jul 19, 2022

Following are cons of using AS3

  • Additional overhead of mainting the AS3 rpm during f5 TMOS upgrades and also test the compatibility of the as3 rpm with the TMOS version
  • Due to imperarive model of AS3 , config pushes are slower in comparsion to using a REST API. As AS3 deploys the whole configuration on a tenant as opposed to changing only a specifc attribute in the JSON payload.
  • there is no AS3 JSON available for deploying payloads for F5 ASM and APM, but the REST API has API's to work with both ASM and APM

I would use REST API over AS3 anyday!!!