F5 Distributed Cloud Platform
The F5 Distributed Cloud Platform unifies cloud, data center, and edge to connect, protect, and run apps anywhere.
Common Management and Services Across Different Environments
An integrated, automated, and consistent set of SaaS-based services in every environment reduces management effort and misconfigurations, and improves cross-team coordination and productivity.
Advanced protection keeps threats from reaching applications, including DDoS, network and web app firewalls, and static and dynamic API security to protect services regardless of origin and documentation, leveraging cross-site orchestrated origin and destination identity.
Product Overview
Virtual services with a real network
The Distributed Cloud Platform is a modern SaaS-based platform that delivers integrated networking and security services and unified cross-environment workload orchestration across distributed infrastructures.
SaaS console
Logically centralized multi-tenant console for global cross-functional control, observability, orchestration, and automation at scale.
F5 Global Network
Multi-TBps global transit backbone, heavily peered to public cloud and SaaS, with Regional Edge compute points of presence (PoPs) near major global metros.
Distributed Cloud App Stack
Application execution stack, including distributed Kubernetes, identity management, zero-knowledge secret management, and continuous app validation.
Distributed Cloud Mesh
Networking and security stack, with BGP router, VPN, cluster ingress/egress, ADC, TCP/HTTP proxy, WAF, API security, and ML-based anomaly detection.
Core Capabilities
Delivering distributed services for deploying, connecting, securing, and operating applications and data across the edge, multiple clouds, and our global network.
Application management
Multi-site K8s deployment and lifecycle management
Global orchestration
Automated network and security controls per app
Full stack observability
Visitors, health, performance, and security analytics
End-to-end visibility
Integrated view of all networking and security at all sites
Multi-cloud networking
Cross-site app-to-app service discovery and zero trust interconnect
API management and security
App and API discovery, mapping, access policies, and delivery
Scalable fleet management
Automation for app deployment, health monitoring, and alerting for 100,000+ sites
Multi-tenant SaaS
Unified control of all functions and locations, with self-service and oversight
Platform Support and Integrations
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Broad platform and cloud provider support
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Service discovery and service mesh integrations
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Automation, alerting, and SIEM integration
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.
Service discovery and service mesh integrations
Supports multiple service discovery protocols simultaneously: Consul, Kubernetes, and DNS work out of the box. Istio or Linkerd service mesh can integrate with a Distributed Cloud Services ingress/egress gateway.
Automation, alerting, and SIEM integration
F5’s native Terraform provider, vesctl CLI tool, and public APIs address the automation needs of app teams. Support for tools like Opsgenie or Slack for alerting and Splunk or Datadog for SIEM simplify life for DevOps and SecOps teams.
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