Sounds suspiciously similar to a rube goldberg machine.

Those tend to be quite brittle in reality. What’s the old adage about engineering vs architecture again?

Something like this I think: https://www.reddit.com/r/PeterExplainsTheJoke/comments/16141...

Obviously it would be much better if BIG IP had native support for ACME. And F5 might implement it some day, but I wouldn’t hold my breath.

For some companies, it might be worth it to throw away a $100000 device and buy something better. For others it might not be worth it.