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F5 Distributed Cloud App Connect

Securely connect distributed apps and services across hybrid and multicloud environments.

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Connect and Secure Modern Apps and APIs Across Clouds

Connect distributed microservices across multi-cloud

Consistent operations and orchestration

Centralized Observability Across Environments: Gain centralized visibility of all applications across multiple clouds, enabling your teams to monitor and manage app performance across your entire network infrastructure and connected sites.

Reliable App Deployment and Orchestration: Integrate app delivery services into a single stack with a standard deployment model and centralized orchestration to help reduce operational complexity

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Extend service connectivity and app portability to any environment

External Kubernetes Networking: Simplify networking between Kubernetes clusters on different cloud providers. Gain centralized visibility for workloads deployed across various Kubernetes distributions.

Simplified App Migration and Portability: Connect application service communications globally across environments with private connectivity, making application migrations and workload portability a secure, hassle-free experience. 

Product Overview

App-to-app cloud networking

Distributed Cloud App Connect is a SaaS-based service that provides app-to-app connectivity and orchestration for workloads distributed across multiple cloud regions, providers, and edge sites. Distributed Cloud App Connect ensures secure application-layer networking between clouds with granular service and request-level controls for DevOps.

Core Capabilities

Distributed Cloud App Connect supports a broad range of capabilities to securely connect apps and services across multiple cloud, on-premises, and edge sites.

Service orchestration

Automated, cross-cluster service discovery and management

Observability

Service-level dashboards and metrics

Service security integration

Distributed Cloud Console manages both app and API security

App migration and portability

Easily shift apps to new environments without any IP address overlap concerns

Service networking

Load balancing for TCP, UDP, and HTTP/S requests

Service segmentation

Granular policies to secure endpoint access

End-to-end encryption

Native TLS encryption between workloads

Ingress and egress

Route-based policy enforcement for HTTP and HTTPS traffic

Platform Support and Integrations

Broad Platform and Cloud Provider Support

F5 Distributed Cloud Services can be delivered to any platform, network, or cluster, in the cloud, on-premises, or on the edge. Connect and secure applications and services running in VMs, containers, bare metal, or serverless.

Service Discovery

F5 Distributed Cloud Services supports multiple service discovery techniques simultaneously. Consul, Kubernetes, and DNS work out of the box.

Automation, Alerting, and SIEM Integration

F5’s native Terraform provider, vesctl CLI tool, and public APIs deliver to 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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