Automation Ideas - ADC

Folks

given that we have so many tools operating in the network automation space , what are your preferred tools for automating the f5 ADC infrastructure.

being a network engineer called upon to provide guidance to a company on deciding on the approach - it would be great to hear your thoughts

should we be approaching f5 automation from a devops perspective or a NetOps perspective ?

is automating a create f5 vip alone enough or is there a bigger picture for us to target automating ?