Full lifecycle management of app and API delivery with F5 NGINX One

From its open-source beginnings to powering many of today’s most advanced applications, F5 NGINX has continually evolved to help organizations deliver services faster, scale effortlessly, and secure comprehensively. But as modern applications grow in complexity, distributed across Kubernetes, multicloud, and hybrid environments, the challenge of managing multiple NGINX solutions increases significantly.

That’s exactly why we built F5 NGINX One, an integrated software suite designed specifically to remove the complexity of procurement, setup, and daily management. Part of the F5 Application and Delivery Platform, F5 NGINX One brings together the core technologies your teams rely on—like enterprise load balancing and API gateway, Kubernetes-native traffic management, Kubernetes Gateway API support, adaptive web application security, and centralized manageability— into a single package and unified operational experience.

Managing multiple, discrete solutions often burdens procurement teams and operational budgets with complex licensing, overlapping renewals, and fragmented vendor relationships. With NGINX One, we've organized that complexity into a single subscription, reducing overhead and providing predictability around costs and licensing compliance.

The NGINX One solution consists of:

• F5 NGINX Plus: Enterprise-grade reverse proxy, load balancer, and API Gateway offering high-performance and reliable API traffic management. Features advanced capabilities such as active health checks, session persistence, and dynamic reconfiguration with zero downtime and more.
• F5 NGINX Ingress Controller: A Kubernetes-native ingress solution designed for secure, scalable, and automated app delivery.
• F5 NGINX Gateway Fabric: Built to support Kubernetes Gateway API standards, it enables platform teams to deliver consistent, policy-driven traffic management across complex Kubernetes clusters. NGINX Gateway Fabric simplifies deployment and helps teams confidently scale without extensive manual configuration or operational complexity.
• F5 NGINX App Protect (WAF): Comprehensive web application firewall protection for modern apps and APIs, safeguarding against OWASP Top 10 vulnerabilities, zero-day threats, and sophisticated bot attacks. Powered by a flexible, adaptive policy engine, it secures all application types across traditional and cloud-native environments.
• F5 NGINX One Console: A centralized SaaS-based management platform that unifies configuration, policy management, observability, and certificate management across your NGINX footprint. The console streamlines visibility, ensures consistency, significantly reduces operational overhead, and enables proactive operational decision-making.

Operational fragmentation, like licensing complexity, can also limit visibility and efficiency. With NGINX One’s cloud-based management plane, your configuration, observability, policy enforcement, certificate management, and security are brought together in a single dashboard, reducing this fragmentation dramatically:

• Unified observability and monitoring: Access complete visibility into your NGINX fleet (both open source and NGINX Plus versions) from a single intuitive platform. Troubleshoot proactively, analyze performance and visualize trends, usage insights, and metrics across environments.
• Centralized configuration and policy enforcement: Enforce global application and security policies, eliminating the risks and inefficiencies associated with manual configuration drift. Apply changes across multiple environments easily, reducing risk and saving valuable operational cycles.
• Integrated certificate management: Eliminate complexity of TLS certificate workflows, reduce potential outages due to certificate expiry, and maintain continuous compliance across the fleet.
• Early CVE detection and vulnerability management: Proactively protect your infrastructure by receiving real-time alerts about vulnerabilities specific to your NGINX deployments, enabling early mitigation and rapid remediation before potential threats become critical incidents.

By packaging critical enterprise tools like NGINX Plus, NGINX Ingress Controller, NGINX Gateway Fabric, and NGINX App Protect WAF into one procurement solution, and combining them with cloud-delivered operational tooling, NGINX One allows your platform and DevOps teams to operate more effectively and securely than ever before.

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