BIG-IQ Centralized Management

Centralize F5 Apps, Infrastructure, and System Management

A big part of effective application delivery and security is ensuring visibility and control of your hybrid and multicloud app and API deployments. F5 BIG-IQ Centralized Management—a key component of F5 ADSP—helps teams maintain order and streamline administration of BIG-IP app delivery and security services. Combining data-rich dashboards, intuitive configuration workflows, and powerful automation, BIG-IQ creates a single interface for holistic management of your BIG-IP investment.

Reduce complexity, gain consistency and control

Gain end-to-end visibility of your core IT, networking, development, and deployment environments with a unified tool. Create, configure and manage F5 security and application delivery services on physical and virtual devices both locally and in the cloud.

Create Centralized Application Catalogs - Create application catalogs of apps to allow customers to rapidly deploy similar applications across cloud and on-premises environments.
Advanced Analytics - Gain visibility into the health and performance of your applications and the BIG-IP devices they rely on. Collect and aggregate detailed metrics and data from your BIG-IP devices—both locally and in the cloud.
Simplify BIG-IP Portfolio Management - Manage all BIG-IP physical and virtual devices from a single point of control and drive consistent application and security policies across all data center and cloud environments.

Reduce complexity, gain consistency and control

Role, user and task-based dashboards

Ease the burden on NetOps, DevOps, and SecOps users with automated workflows, intelligent device management, role and user-specific GUIs and dashboards, and tight third-party integrations.

Holistic Control - NetOps and IT Ops centralized policy development, management and control of network, platform and application health.
Application Ownership - AppDev, App Owners and DevOpps get full application lifecycle management and control.
Consistent Security - SecOps offers security policy development and consistent deployment on all applications and platforms in data centers and cloud environments.

Increase efficiency and consistency with simplified automation

Manually creating, provisioning, and deploying hundreds of apps and BIG-IP devices across different operating environments and environments lacking a unified security posture or point of control can be time consuming and requires high levels of domain expertise.

Centralized Security - Fine tune policies, repeat best practices, gain security insight from L4–L7, and mitigate threats before they affect your apps.
Policy Consistency - Removed error-prone manual work and ensure compliance across your application portfolio—on-premises or in public and private clouds.
Efficient Deployment - Leverage declarative APIs for full-device lifecycle management reduces deployment time, minimizes errors, and empowers every member of the team.

Increase efficiency and consistency with simplified automation

Declarative automation and orchestration

The F5 Automation Toolchain is a set of unified tools, services, and integrations that automate the process of configuring, provisioning. Deploying F5 application services through simple yet powerful declarative interfaces makes it faster and easier for you to deploy and provision BIG-IP application services.

Imperative vs. Declarative APIs - Declarative APIS enable quicker time-to-marketand Maximized app deployment efficiencies.
Automation Tool Chain (ATC) - A centralized set of automation tools that abstract away BIG-IP configuration complexity via simple yet powerful declarative interfaces to simplify & accelerate repeatable deployments while minimizing errors for and providing effective change management.

Product Overview

Deploy and manage your way

Just like the apps it manages, your BIG-IP system can be deployed in any environment—as software or purpose-built hardware—with holistic management and visibility enabled by BIG-IQ.

F5 VELOS

Performance, scale, and reliability of a modern architecture. Meet F5’s powerful next-generation chassis system.

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F5 rSeries

A fully automatable architecture, and the highest reliability, security and access control for your critical applications.

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F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition

Deliver the BIG-IP application services enterprises need with software designed for any cloud environment.

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Core Capabilities

Application analytics

Simplify troubleshooting and assess health and performance at a glance with big-picture and application-specific dashboards.

Advanced application templates

Powerful AS3 templates make it easy for app teams to spin-up applications with appropriate security and network services.

Central policy management

Ensure compliance and security with centrally managed configurations for devices and applications.

Holistic security dashboard

Reduce blind spots and mitigate risks with a birds-eye view of your security posture.

End-to-end device lifecycle management

Create, configure, deploy, upgrade, patch, certify, and manage up to 1000 BIG-IP devices from an intelligent, centralized platform.

Cert management

Keep BIG-IP device certificates compliant and up to date via seamless integrations with popular third-party certificate management platforms.

License management

Automatically apply and remove licenses as you add or remove BIG-IP devices.

Backup and restore

Backup and restore images, software, and configuration files.

Role-based access control

Use standard roles or create custom ones to provide development teams with the tools they need to deliver applications.

Platform Support and Integrations

Technology alliances

F5 works with leading technology partners to help you ensure consistency across cloud platforms and support every app, anywhere.

Resources

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BIG-IP Management with BIG-IQ

Applications are at the heart of the digital transformation and today every company is in the digital experience business. In this Lightboard Lesson, Peter Silva lights up how NetOps, SecOps and AppDevs can leverage BIG-IQ to make their jobs a little bit easier.

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