Red Hat

F5 partners with Red Hat to offer our mutual customers an application-centric approach to realizing cost savings with a strong, joint-solution roadmap. Together, we deliver integrated, certified solutions for enterprises, telcos, and service providers in open cloud environments. F5 and Red Hat provide interoperability for F5 BIG-IP products in Red Hat OpenStack Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) environments and Red Hat Open Shift Platform as a Service (PaaS) environments.

F5 and Red Hat OpenStack Solutions for Enterprises

This Private cloud Solution Package for OpenStack provides simplified, repeatable deployment of mult-tenant F5 BIG-IP ADCs under the cloud via Load Balancing as a Service (LBaaS) integration on the Red Hat OpenStack Platform (OSP). In addition, for advanced app and security services, this joint solution enables over the cloud deployment of single tenant BIG-IP VE’s. The joint testing and validation methodology and test tools are available on GitHub.

Learn about the F5 private cloud solution package for OpenStack >
Deployment guide version 10 >

F5 and Red Hat NFV Solutions for Telcos/Service Providers

Organizations can implement F5 virtual network functions (VNFs) in combination with Red Hat OpenStack for their service provider clouds. F5 BIG-IP products are available as VNFs that can connect to 40Gbps per instance.

F5 and Red Hat OpenShift Platform as a Service

Red Hat’s OpenShift Platform as a Service (PaaS) enables provisioning and deployment of application infrastructure to support development architectures. BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) can be seamlessly plugged into an OpenShift PaaS environment, allowing for advanced application delivery.

White Paper: Optimized Traffic Control and Load Balancing for Container Environments from F5 + Red Hat >

F5 and Ansible

Simplify orchestration and configuration management of network devices across both public and private cloud environments. Ansible’s agentless architecture doesn’t require additional software installation on BIG-IP devices and automates every stage of the deployment process—from licensing through application deployment. Find a broad array of Ansible integrations on the F5 github site.

Learn how to automate your network with F5 and Ansible >
White Paper: Automating the F5 BIG-IP Platform with Ansible >