Container Connector
Deploy faster with self-service and automated app scale and security.
ADVANCED APPLICATION SERVICES—ACROSS YOUR CONTAINER ENVIRONMENT
Organizations are adopting containerized environments to speed app development. But these apps still need services, such as routing, SSL offload, scale, and security.
F5 Container Connector makes it easy to deliver advanced application services to your container deployments, enabling Ingress control HTTP routing, load balancing, and application delivery performance, as well as robust security services.
Container Connector easily integrates BIG-IP solutions with native container environments, such as Kubernetes and Mesos, and PaaS container orchestration and management systems, such as RedHat OpenShift and Pivotal Cloud Foundry.
Apps that dynamically scale
Scale apps to meet container workloads and enable security services to protect container data. Container Connector enables self-service app performance and security services within your orchestration by integrating BIG-IP platforms with your container environment.
Automated event discovery and app services insertion
Deploy self-service Ingress control within container orchestration service scheduling. In addition, your teams can subscribe to events to scale app services automatically using the BIG-IP advanced application performance and security services for Ingress control.
Faster deployment across your container orchestration ecosystem
Easily configure app-delivery and security services with pre-defined BIG-IP templates. Furthermore, you can enable Helm charts for repeatable Kubernetes application deployments and upgrades. Container Connecter simplifies policy management, resulting in faster app deployments.
Services for containerized apps
Ingress control for application services of HTTP routing, load balancing, security, and programmability in containerized environments.
Spin up, spin down—in seconds
Enable rapid deployment of application services in containerized environments.
Scale and secure based on events
Subscribe to container events to automatically scale and secure your apps.
Pre-defined templates and packaged charts
Simplify policy management with standardized templates. Use Helm charts for repeatable Kubernetes deployments.
A/B testing and blue/green deployments
Support Blue/Green deployments for multiple app versions in production, and A/B traffic management in dev and test environments.
Attach pre-existing policies and profiles for OpenShift routes
Enable greater flexibility and usability during configurations by using pre-existing policies and profiles for OpenShift routes.
Allow Ingress annotations to rewrite target URLs in Kubernetes
Improve user experience and productivity, increasing web app resolution for Kubernetes or OpenShift Ingress.
Related resources
How it works
Free, open-source Container Connector makes it easy to deliver dynamic app services in containerize environments.
Technical details
Get all the facts about Container Connector, including documentation for Kubernetes, Marathon, and Cloud Foundry.