Load balancing your applications

Keep your applications running at peak performance with intelligent and programmable application traffic management.

Why Intelligent Load Balancing Matters

Traditional ways of load balancing are not well suited for today’s hybrid multicloud application environments. As organizations increasingly automate application deployments, they need fast, intelligent load balancing that can do more than handle external client connections. The load balancing tools in F5's Application Delivery and Security Platform can help.

Greater Cost Control

Scale your applications for the right reasons and reign in hidden cloud costs. F5 offers intelligent and customizable load balancing policies for hybrid and multicloud environments to inspect and route customers to available resources, freeing up busy sites and systems. Let F5 help distribute traffic efficiently so teams can focus on deployments, not cloud overages.

Simplified Load Balancing Across Clouds

F5 provides highly available, intelligent load balancing and traffic policy management across hybrid and multicloud deployments. Even if you have thousands of distributed or complex multi-cloud enterprise applications, F5 simplifies traffic and load balancing decisions with powerful policy-driven templates for today’s most demanding applications.

Detailed Insights Into Application Traffic

Stream live telemetry and gain unique insights into how applications perform and how customers experience them. F5’s hybrid multicloud application delivery and load balancing solutions sit inline with customer and application traffic providing actionable data for quicker time-to-resolution and issue mitigation.

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Deliver Secure, Reliable, and Optimized Applications to Your Users

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Protect and scale apps across any platform

Leverage F5’s reverse proxy architecture for traffic management across hybrid and multicloud environments. Get the intelligent, programmatic load balancing you need to securely optimize internal and external traffic.

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How F5 Helps

Never outgrow your traffic management solution with F5

Whether on-premises, in the cloud, or with the flexibility of NGINX for microservices needs, F5 offers a traffic management solution for every need. F5 provides protocol and application traffic awareness for intelligent load balancing decisions.

BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM)

Obtain the flexible control you need from basic load balancing to complex traffic management decisions.

NGINX One

Get access to enterprise-grade features including session persistence, API configuration, and active health checks.

BIG-IP DNS

Distribute user requests based on service conditions, application performance, and other factors with F5's global server load balancing solution.

NGINXaaS for Azure

Optimize app delivery and security in Azure: Boost performance, enhance protection, and improve visibility at scale, cost-effectively.

Grow beyond basic load balancing to meet your modern application needs

With rich, flexible programmatic options across all F5 solutions, you can easily and rapidly develop adaptive traffic decisions and then deploy them across multiple apps. Take greater control of application and network traffic across all application environments.

BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM)

Adapt to application delivery challenges—from defeating zero-day attacks to cloning application requests—across any environment.

NGINX One

Deploy custom architectures with NGINX JavaScript Module, Lua scripting language, and a modern API for managing upstream services.

F5 iRules

Enable programmatic analysis, manipulation, and detection of application and network traffic.

F5 Automation Toolchain

Make it faster and easier to deploy and configure F5 application services via simple yet powerful declarative interfaces.

Intelligent applications need intelligent traffic distribution

F5 makes it easy to integrate application services directly into your container management solutions, no matter where they’re hosted. As a result, DevOps, SecOps, and NetOps teams can keep applications and their distributed services up-to-date without slowing down development.

NGINX Ingress Controller

Provide enterprise‑grade delivery services for Kubernetes applications, with benefits for both NGINX and NGINX Plus users.

BIG-IP Container Ingress Services

Integrate container orchestration to dynamically create protocol and app services and balance traffic accordingly.

Industry-Defining Load Balancing

Never outgrow your traffic management solution with F5

BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM)

Obtain the flexible control you need from basic load balancing to complex traffic management decisions.

NGINX One

Get access to enterprise-grade features including session persistence, API configuration, and active health checks.

BIG-IP DNS

Distribute user requests based on service conditions, application performance, and other factors with F5's global server load balancing solution.

NGINXaaS for Azure

Optimize app delivery and security in Azure: Boost performance, enhance protection, and improve visibility at scale, cost-effectively.

Intelligent Programmatic Traffic Management

Grow beyond basic load balancing to meet your modern application needs

BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM)

Adapt to application delivery challenges—from defeating zero-day attacks to cloning application requests—across any environment.

NGINX One

Deploy custom architectures with NGINX JavaScript Module, Lua scripting language, and a modern API for managing upstream services.

F5 iRules

Enable programmatic analysis, manipulation, and detection of application and network traffic.

F5 Automation Toolchain

Make it faster and easier to deploy and configure F5 application services via simple yet powerful declarative interfaces.

Containers and Microservices

Intelligent applications need intelligent traffic distribution

NGINX Ingress Controller

Provide enterprise‑grade delivery services for Kubernetes applications, with benefits for both NGINX and NGINX Plus users.

BIG-IP Container Ingress Services

Integrate container orchestration to dynamically create protocol and app services and balance traffic accordingly.

Ecosystem Integrations

Securely orchestrate and scale industry-leading load balancing traffic-management solutions. For containerized Openshift or Kubernetes environments, seamlessly plug in F5 solutions and lay the groundwork for advanced application delivery.