F5 Distributed Cloud App Stack
Deploy, secure, and operate distributed applications with uniform production grade Managed Kubernetes no matter the location—from private and public cloud to edge locations.
Distributed Cloud App Stack
Achieve effortless life-cycle-management and scaling of applications across multiple k8s clusters (customer sites or F5 Distributed Cloud Regional Edge) with a single Kubernetes compatible API—unlocking the ease of multi-cluster management. Deploy, deliver and secure applications to all locations as one ”virtual” location.
F5 supports multi-cluster deployments and delivers on the promise of k8s: leveraging generic compute in a scalable API-driven design.
Product Overview
Connect, secure, and manage apps in the cloud, at the edge, or in the F5 global network
Public clouds
Manage and protect application workloads hosted across clouds, including AWS, Azure, and GCP.
Customer edge
Manage and protect applications at your data center and edge sites.
F5 regions
Manage and protect application workloads from any locations of presence on the F5 global network.
Bring your own Kubernetes
Leverage existing managed container platform deployments and protect and connect them to the F5 global network.
Core Capabilities
Operational efficiency & simplification
Simplify lifecycle management of applications and infrastructure services across a fleet of distributed sites, along with intent-based policy and configuration.
Scalability
Deploy a purpose-built control plane across F5’s globally distributed infrastructure that scales to a large number of application clusters.
Application security
Easily extend to available web and API protection services on the platform, which include Layer 7 security, API discovery, and DDoS and malicious bot mitigation.
App performance via edge deployment
Move performance-sensitive applications (or portions of apps) to edge sites or the network edge to improve latency and performance. Leverage AI/ML applications on the edge and GPU as a service in the network.
Operations management
Specifically designed to simplify Day 0 - Day 100 Kubernetes operations with the easiest way to create, destroy, upgrade and maintain clusters.
Platform security
Integrated Native Security to verify identity across distributed sites that drive policy and encrypt data (at rest and in transit), along with the innovative Blindfold capability that secures secrets and keys.
Platform Support and Integrations
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Broad platform and cloud provider support
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Simplifying DevOps and SecOps
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Certified baremetal
Broad platform and cloud provider support
Distributed Cloud Services can be delivered to apps running on any platform on any public/private cloud. Connect and secure apps running in VMs, containers, bare metal or serverless.
Simplifying DevOps and SecOps
F5’s native Terraform provider, vesctl CLI tool, and public APIs deliver the automation needs of app teams. Support for alerting tools (i.e., Opsgenie and Slack) and SIEM tools (i.e., Splunk and Datadog) simplify life of DevOps and SecOps.
Certified baremetal
F5 Distributed Cloud Services can be delivered on certified baremetal partners, offering flexible deployment at the far reaches of your edge infrastructure.
