F5 Friday: Python SDK for BIG-IP

Hello!

I am wondering what sort of use cases exist for using this SDK, iControl REST, and even programmatic interfacing with BIG-IP's in general. In my environment we have a few F5s, but it seems like the prospect of deploying another one seems unlikely and if so it would only be one or two at the most, so automating deployments is the obvious thing that comes to mind but what is the use case for needing that?

The only other use case that seems self evident to me involves using programmatic means to print out the config for a BIG-IP (the pools, nodes, etc) in order to examine the diff with another config side by side which is easier to do in a text based environment rather than manually clicking through a GUI.

I am sure there are tons of use cases I am not thinking of or not aware of, so please let me know what sort of practical things can be built with this because I would love to use it in my production environment.

Regards, -cmm-