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

Enterprise-ready Managed Kubernetes

Deploy and orchestrate applications on a managed Kubernetes platform with centralized, SaaS-based management of distributed applications with a single pane of glass and rich observability. Simplify by managing deployments as one across on-prem, cloud, and edge locations.

Enterprise-ready Managed Kubernetes
Virtual Kubernetes

Virtual Kubernetes

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.

Bring your own Kubernetes to our platform

Secure K8s Gateway with zero trust security all the way to the cluster with ingress services with WAAP, service policies management, network and application firewall. Additionally, F5 provides native service discovery and application publication.

Bring your own Kubernetes to our platform

Product Overview

Volt stack diagram

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.

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Customer edge

Manage and protect applications at your data center and edge sites.

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F5 regions

Manage and protect application workloads from any locations of presence on the F5 global network.

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Bring your own Kubernetes

Leverage existing managed container platform deployments and protect and connect them to the F5 global network.

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Managed services

We ensure seamless design, deployment, and orchestration of App Stack Sites across cloud and edge environments. We provide consulting, onboarding, load balancing, and validation for secure, efficient application hosting with F5.

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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.

AI-powered insights

Accelerate app deployment and delivery with the AI assistant. Gain real-time visibility, actionable recommendations, and simplified app management across hybrid and multicloud environments.

Platform Support and Integrations

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.

AWS
azure
Google cloud
VMWare
IBM
Red Hat Openshift

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