F5 BIGIP & XC certbot plugin

sure! the ACME process is split into two parts: authentication and installation. so you can define how you wana do the authentication / validation part and how to do the installation. you can do both on the bigip and then you need to define the f5-bigip-auth-* and the f5-bigip-inst-* parameters. you can also for example do the validation / authentication via a public DNS provider (google, ...) and do the installation to the bigip. so you would need to apply the google-dns parameters and only the f5-bigip-inst-* parameters.

is it more clear to you now?

if you want, take a look into the https://gitlab.com/emalzer/certbot-ansible repo, there you can manage the required parameters for certbot via a yaml file and let ansible render a shell script that executes then the certbot commands with all the parameters.