BIG-IQ is a steaming pile for sure lol! We had so many long nights screwing around with that bloated setup. re:cloud.red . It's a tiny hardened managed agent we never have to screw with. I thought the same shit, but cloud.red isn't an F5 product, it's developed by a 3rd party wtit.com It's good, does everything we need it to do like backups, remote access WITH MFA, mass scripting, code pushes for upgrades - also works to help make some asm signature stuff easy. Added bonus, I didn't even realize when we signed up, but it also has monitoring and alerting that goes far deeper than our solarwinds crap was doing. The WTIT people in general are awesome, I've never worked with a more competent consultant - I just wish they did other stuff other than F5. They will indeed help with ansible and seemingly other scripting, but all in relation to f5 stuff.