specification: API Commons Packages
specificationVersion: '0.1'
provider: F5
providerId: f5
generated: '2026-09-07'
method: searched
source: >-
  Registry metadata endpoints queried unauthenticated on 2026-09-07 — pypi.org/pypi/<pkg>/json,
  registry.npmjs.org/<pkg>, registry.terraform.io/v1/providers/<ns>/<name>,
  galaxy.ansible.com/api/v3/.../collections/index/f5networks/<name>/, proxy.golang.org/<mod>/@latest,
  hub.docker.com/v2/repositories/<repo>/ — cross-referenced against the F5Networks, f5devcentral and
  nginx GitHub organizations.
description: >-
  First-party F5 client libraries, providers, collections and images. F5's distribution centre of
  gravity is infrastructure-as-code and operator tooling — Terraform providers, Ansible collections
  and Kubernetes controllers are current and actively released, while the classic Python SDKs for
  iControl REST were last published in 2019 and are effectively frozen. That split is the single
  most useful currency signal in this record: an agent integrating with BIG-IP through the Python
  SDK is picking up a library that has not shipped in seven years, while the same platform's
  Terraform provider shipped two months ago.
package_count: 13
official_count: 13
findings:
  - The two Python SDKs F5 published for iControl REST (f5-sdk / f5-common-python and
    f5-icontrol-rest) both last released in April 2019. The API they wrap is still shipping.
  - f5-cli, F5's own command-line client on PyPI, last released 2020-04-16 and its GitHub
    repository (F5Networks/f5-cli) now returns 404 — the package outlives its source.
  - >-
    Terraform, Ansible and container distribution are current — bigip 1.28.0 (2026-07-02),
    f5os 1.13.0 (2026-08-19), f5networks.f5_modules 1.43.0 (2026-08-11),
    f5networks.f5os 1.23.0 (2026-08-25), nginx/nginx-ingress image updated 2026-09-07.
  - The Volterra (F5 Distributed Cloud) Terraform provider is published under the volterraedge
    namespace, not F5Networks — a legacy of the 2021 Volterra acquisition. F5's own XC
    documentation points at it, which is why it is marked official here.
packages:
  - name: f5-sdk
    registry: pypi
    language: python
    official: true
    version: 3.0.21
    published: '2019-04-11'
    url: https://pypi.org/project/f5-sdk/
    repository: https://github.com/F5Networks/f5-common-python
    description: Python SDK for configuration and monitoring of F5 BIG-IP devices via the iControl REST API.
    note: Last release 2019-04-11 — frozen for over seven years while iControl REST remains F5's
      primary BIG-IP management interface.
  - name: f5-icontrol-rest
    registry: pypi
    language: python
    official: true
    version: 1.3.13
    published: '2019-04-10'
    url: https://pypi.org/project/f5-icontrol-rest/
    repository: https://github.com/F5Networks/f5-icontrol-rest-python
    description: Generic Python transport library used by the F5 SDK and other F5 projects to talk to BIG-IP over iControl REST.
    note: Last release 2019-04-10. Same freeze as f5-sdk, which depends on it.
  - name: f5-cli
    registry: pypi
    language: python
    official: true
    version: 0.9.2
    published: '2020-04-16'
    url: https://pypi.org/project/f5-cli/
    repository: null
    description: F5 CLI — command-line client for BIG-IP and F5 Cloud Services.
    note: Last release 2020-04-16; the GitHub repository named in F5's own docs
      (F5Networks/f5-cli) returns HTTP 404 as of 2026-09-07.
  - name: '@f5devcentral/f5-cloud-libs'
    registry: npm
    language: javascript
    official: true
    version: 4.30.0
    published: '2025-11-06'
    url: https://www.npmjs.com/package/@f5devcentral/f5-cloud-libs
    repository: https://github.com/F5Networks/f5-cloud-libs
    description: Node.js libraries used by F5 cloud deployment templates to onboard and configure BIG-IP instances.
  - name: '@f5devcentral/f5-fast-core'
    registry: npm
    language: javascript
    official: true
    version: 0.26.1
    published: '2026-05-01'
    url: https://www.npmjs.com/package/@f5devcentral/f5-fast-core
    repository: https://github.com/f5devcentral/f5-fast-core
    description: Core templating engine behind F5 BIG-IP Application Services Templates (FAST); the
      library under the FAST API captured in openapi/f5-big-ip-fast-openapi.yml.
  - name: '@f5devcentral/atg-shared-utilities'
    registry: npm
    language: javascript
    official: true
    version: 0.10.12
    published: '2026-08-31'
    url: https://www.npmjs.com/package/@f5devcentral/atg-shared-utilities
    description: Shared utilities used across F5's Automation Toolchain extensions (AS3, DO, FAST, TS).
  - name: '@f5devcentral/f5-teem'
    registry: npm
    language: javascript
    official: true
    version: 1.6.1
    published: '2023-04-26'
    url: https://www.npmjs.com/package/@f5devcentral/f5-teem
    description: F5 telemetry (TEEM) client embedded in the Automation Toolchain extensions.
  - name: F5Networks/bigip
    registry: terraform
    language: hcl
    official: true
    version: 1.28.0
    published: '2026-07-02'
    url: https://registry.terraform.io/providers/F5Networks/bigip/latest
    repository: https://github.com/F5Networks/terraform-provider-bigip
    description: Terraform provider for configuring BIG-IP LTM, GTM, AS3, DO and FAST resources.
  - name: F5Networks/f5os
    registry: terraform
    language: hcl
    official: true
    version: 1.13.0
    published: '2026-08-19'
    url: https://registry.terraform.io/providers/F5Networks/f5os/latest
    repository: https://github.com/F5Networks/terraform-provider-f5os
    description: Terraform provider for F5OS platforms (VELOS, rSeries).
  - name: F5Networks/bigipnext
    registry: terraform
    language: hcl
    official: true
    version: 1.4.0
    published: '2024-12-09'
    url: https://registry.terraform.io/providers/F5Networks/bigipnext/latest
    repository: https://github.com/F5Networks/terraform-provider-bigipnext
    description: Terraform provider for BIG-IP Next via BIG-IP Next Central Manager.
    note: Last published 2024-12-09. F5 has since announced it is discontinuing BIG-IP Next and
      modernizing BIG-IP TMOS (see F5Networks/f5-ansible-next, archived for the same reason).
  - name: volterraedge/volterra
    registry: terraform
    language: hcl
    official: true
    version: 0.12.2
    published: '2026-07-13'
    url: https://registry.terraform.io/providers/volterraedge/volterra/latest
    repository: https://github.com/volterraedge/terraform-provider-volterra
    description: Terraform provider for F5 Distributed Cloud (XC) — sites, load balancers, WAF, DNS, namespaces.
    note: Published under the volterraedge namespace rather than F5Networks, a legacy of the
      2021 Volterra acquisition; F5's own Distributed Cloud documentation points at it.
  - name: f5networks.f5_modules
    registry: ansible-galaxy
    language: python
    official: true
    version: 1.43.0
    published: '2026-08-11'
    url: https://galaxy.ansible.com/ui/repo/published/f5networks/f5_modules/
    repository: https://github.com/F5Networks/f5-ansible
    description: Imperative Ansible collection for BIG-IP and BIG-IQ.
  - name: f5networks.f5os
    registry: ansible-galaxy
    language: python
    official: true
    version: 1.23.0
    published: '2026-08-25'
    url: https://galaxy.ansible.com/ui/repo/published/f5networks/f5os/
    repository: https://github.com/F5Networks/f5-ansible-f5os
    description: Ansible collection for managing F5OS-based devices.
containers:
  - name: nginx/nginx-ingress
    registry: dockerhub
    official: true
    version: null
    published: '2026-09-07'
    url: https://hub.docker.com/r/nginx/nginx-ingress
    pull_count: 1087103021
    note: Docker Hub's repository endpoint reports last_updated but not a resolvable "latest
      version" string, so version is recorded null rather than guessed; the tag list is the
      authoritative version surface.
  - name: f5networks/k8s-bigip-ctlr
    registry: dockerhub
    official: true
    version: null
    published: '2026-06-05'
    url: https://hub.docker.com/r/f5networks/k8s-bigip-ctlr
    pull_count: 31626694
    note: Go module github.com/F5Networks/k8s-bigip-ctlr last tagged v1.14.2 (2022-12-30) on
      proxy.golang.org; the shipping artifact is the container image, not the Go module.