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iControl REST 101: What is iControl REST?

tl;dr - iControlREST provides a representation state transfer interface to BIG-IP management plane functions. iControl Background iControl is F5’s API that allows for programmatic acces...
Published Feb 03, 2014
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nice! To be fair, bigsuds is decidedly lighter than pycontrol for python, but still requires a little more preconfig and handling than the REST API. Looking forward to the series, Colin!

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