Getting Started with the f5-common-python SDK

Thank you Jason for your prompt reply. I looked at Tim Rupp's modules and took your advise to use it to configure the new unit with Ansible. But still thinking to use f5-sdk to read the values from Old unit, create hosts-variable file for Ansible and then run it to configure the new unit. What do you think ?

Would you please help me again to check my code below which trying to find out how many profiles attached to the VIP :

BigIP Version : 12.1.2 HF2

The part of REST API response is below :

     "profilesReference": {
            "link": "https://localhost/mgmt/tm/ltm/virtual/~Common~testvip/profiles?ver=12.1.2",
            "isSubcollection": true,
            "items": [
                {
                    "kind": "tm:ltm:virtual:profiles:profilesstate",
                    "name": "http_XForwardedFor",
                    "partition": "Common",
                    "fullPath": "/Common/http_XForwardedFor",
                    "generation": 508,
                    "selfLink": "https://localhost/mgmt/tm/ltm/virtual/~Common~testvip/profiles/~Common~http_XForwardedFor?ver=12.1.2",
                    "context": "all",
                    "nameReference": {
                        "link": "https://localhost/mgmt/tm/ltm/profile/http/~Common~http_XForwardedFor?ver=12.1.2"
                    }
                },
                {
                    "kind": "tm:ltm:virtual:profiles:profilesstate",
                    "name": "oneconnect",
                    "partition": "Common",
                    "fullPath": "/Common/oneconnect",
                    "generation": 508,
                    "selfLink": "https://localhost/mgmt/tm/ltm/virtual/~Common~testvip/profiles/~Common~oneconnect?ver=12.1.2",
                    "context": "all",
                    "nameReference": {
                        "link": "https://localhost/mgmt/tm/ltm/profile/one-connect/~Common~oneconnect?ver=12.1.2"
                    }
                },
                {
                    "kind": "tm:ltm:virtual:profiles:profilesstate",
                    "name": "tcp-lan-optimized",
                    "partition": "Common",
                    "fullPath": "/Common/tcp-lan-optimized",
                    "generation": 508,
                    "selfLink": "https://localhost/mgmt/tm/ltm/virtual/~Common~testvip/profiles/~Common~tcp-lan-optimized?ver=12.1.2",
                    "context": "serverside",
                    "nameReference": {
                        "link": "https://localhost/mgmt/tm/ltm/profile/tcp/~Common~tcp-lan-optimized?ver=12.1.2"
                    }
                },
                {
                    "kind": "tm:ltm:virtual:profiles:profilesstate",
                    "name": "tcp-wan-optimized",
                    "partition": "Common",
                    "fullPath": "/Common/tcp-wan-optimized",
                    "generation": 508,
                    "selfLink": "https://localhost/mgmt/tm/ltm/virtual/~Common~testvip/profiles/~Common~tcp-wan-optimized?ver=12.1.2",
                    "context": "clientside",
                    "nameReference": {
                        "link": "https://localhost/mgmt/tm/ltm/profile/tcp/~Common~tcp-wan-optimized?ver=12.1.2"
                    }
                },
                {
                    "kind": "tm:ltm:virtual:profiles:profilesstate",
                    "name": "testvip-ssl",
                    "partition": "Common",
                    "fullPath": "/Common/testvip-ssl",
                    "generation": 508,
                    "selfLink": "https://localhost/mgmt/tm/ltm/virtual/~Common~testvip/profiles/~Common~testvip-ssl?ver=12.1.2",
                    "context": "clientside",
                    "nameReference": {
                        "link": "https://localhost/mgmt/tm/ltm/profile/client-ssl/~Common~testvip-ssl?ver=12.1.2"
                    }
                }
            ]
        }
    }

My f5-sdk code is :

    vip = mgmt.tm.ltm.virtuals.virtual.load(name='testvip', partition='Common')
    print (vip.profilesReference)
    for p in vip.profilesReference:
        print (p)

Output is :

   {'link': 'https://localhost/mgmt/tm/ltm/virtual/~Common~testvip/profiles?ver=12.1.2', 'isSubcollection': True}
    link
    isSubcollection

How can I get to "items" and then read the "name" of each item to identify which profile is attached to this VIP.

Thank you,

Muhammad