For simple things it's adequate, but the fact that one can SSH is also helpful as there's a RHEL/CentOS base to work on. We're able to get Let's Encrypt working with a bash-only ACME client (dehydrated) is short order.
Heck, run Ansible on it:
* https://www.ansible.com/integrations/networks/f5 * https://github.com/F5Networks/f5-ansible