The cloud holds a lot of promise, especially in terms of efficiency gains. But to realize this promise, you must liberate operational management from the burden of manual processes. Automation in the cloud can help you free up your operations so your teams can innovate and build out IT as a Service.
F5 application and control planes enable the precise collaboration between components, systems, and applications that you need to simplify and speed the provisioning of resources and policies. With F5 cloud solutions, you can ensure the security, performance, and availability of your applications.
Integrate and automate
Deploying applications requires that you configure and deploy a variety of application delivery services before going live. By integrating with F5 automation frameworks, you reduce the time it takes to configure and deploy these services and limit the risk of misconfiguration that can jeopardize security and result in downtime.
- Simplify deployment through automation with popular frameworks such as OpenStack, Chef, and Puppet, and with enterprise-class solutions from IBM, VMware, and Microsoft.
- Enable self-service deployment with repeatable application delivery services.
Enable elastic applications
Just-in-time provisioning is one of the hallmarks of a successful cloud initiative, but achieving it requires a holistic view of application capacity and demand, in addition to the ability to provision and deprovision resources on demand. F5 integrates and collaborates with provisioning management systems to optimize the scaling up and down of your applications.
- Share demand and capacity monitoring data between F5 solutions and provisioning management systems from VMware, Microsoft, HP, and IBM.
- React to scaling and security events dynamically.
Maximize efficiency
Configuring application delivery services manually can take days, weeks, or even months to get right. The unique F5 application control plane architecture gives you better control over configuration without compromising flexibility or integration with automation frameworks.
- Ensure fast and repeatable application deployments.
- Ensure that processes can seamlessly span environments and systems.
- Simplify application-specific service configuration.
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