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F5 Networks is a leader in application delivery networking technology that specializes in application availability, acceleration, and security solutions.

11 APIs 1 Capabilities 8 Features
API GatewayApplication DeliveryAutomationEdge ComputingKubernetesLoad BalancingMulti-CloudNGINXSecurityWAF

APIs

F5 BIG-IP iControl REST API

The iControl REST API provides programmatic access to manage and configure F5 BIG-IP devices. Enables automation of network, security, and application delivery services.

F5 Distributed Cloud API

API for F5 Distributed Cloud Services providing multi-cloud networking, application security, and edge computing capabilities.

F5 NGINX Management Suite API

REST API for managing NGINX instances, monitoring performance, and configuring application delivery through NGINX Management Suite.

F5 Essential App Protect API

API for managing F5's application security services including WAF policies, bot defense, and API protection.

F5 BIG-IQ Centralized Management API

REST API for BIG-IQ Centralized Management providing programmatic control over BIG-IP device management, licensing, monitoring, and analytics across your F5 infrastructure.

F5 BIG-IP Application Services 3 Extension API

Declarative API for automating layer 4-7 application services on BIG-IP using JSON declarations. AS3 enables infrastructure-as-code for application delivery configuration.

F5 Declarative Onboarding API

Declarative API for automating layer 1-3 BIG-IP onboarding and initial device configuration using JSON declarations, making BIG-IP available on the network and ready for applica...

F5 Telemetry Streaming API

Declarative API for aggregating, normalizing, and forwarding BIG-IP statistics and events to third-party analytics consumers including Splunk, Azure Log Analytics, AWS CloudWatc...

F5 NGINX Plus API

REST API for NGINX Plus providing real-time live activity monitoring, dynamic upstream configuration, key-value store management, and server health statistics without requiring ...

F5 NGINX One Console API

API for managing and monitoring NGINX instances across environments from a single console, including configuration management, performance metrics, security vulnerability tracki...

F5 NGINX Ingress Controller API

Kubernetes Ingress Controller implementation for NGINX and NGINX Plus providing load balancing, SSL/TLS termination, content-based routing, and advanced traffic management for c...

Capabilities

F5 Application Delivery

Unified workflow for managing application delivery infrastructure including virtual servers, server pools, backend nodes, and traffic profiles on F5 BIG-IP. Used by network admi...

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Features

Multi-Cloud Networking

Connect and secure applications across any cloud, data center, or edge environment with consistent policy and visibility.

Application Delivery Controller

Advanced load balancing, traffic management, and application acceleration for high availability and performance.

Web Application Firewall

Comprehensive protection against OWASP Top 10 threats, bot attacks, and API vulnerabilities.

Infrastructure as Code

Declarative APIs (AS3, DO, TS) for automating BIG-IP configuration and application delivery.

NGINX Reverse Proxy

High-performance reverse proxy, load balancing, and web serving for modern applications.

API Gateway

Secure and manage API traffic with rate limiting, authentication, and traffic shaping.

DDoS Protection

Volumetric and application-layer DDoS mitigation with always-on or on-demand protection.

SSL/TLS Offloading

Centralized SSL/TLS certificate management and encryption offloading for improved performance.

Use Cases

Application Load Balancing

Distribute application traffic across servers for high availability, performance, and fault tolerance.

Zero Trust Security

Implement zero trust architecture with identity-aware proxy, micro-segmentation, and continuous verification.

Kubernetes Ingress

Manage ingress traffic for containerized applications with NGINX Ingress Controller in Kubernetes clusters.

Multi-Cloud Application Delivery

Deliver applications consistently across AWS, Azure, GCP, and on-premises with unified policy management.

API Security

Protect APIs from abuse, injection attacks, and unauthorized access with granular security policies.

DevOps Automation

Automate network and security infrastructure provisioning using declarative APIs and CI/CD pipelines.

Integrations

AWS

Deploy BIG-IP and Distributed Cloud services natively on AWS with CloudFormation templates and marketplace offerings.

Azure

Integrate F5 solutions with Azure services including AKS, App Gateway, and Azure AD for cloud-native security.

Google Cloud

Deploy F5 solutions on GCP with support for GKE, Cloud Load Balancing, and Anthos.

Kubernetes

Native Kubernetes integration through NGINX Ingress Controller, Container Ingress Services, and Helm charts.

Terraform

Infrastructure as Code support with official Terraform providers for BIG-IP and Distributed Cloud.

Ansible

Ansible modules and roles for automating BIG-IP configuration, deployment, and orchestration.

Splunk

Forward telemetry data to Splunk for centralized logging, analytics, and security monitoring.

ServiceNow

ITSM integration for automated incident management and change control of F5 infrastructure.

Semantic Vocabularies

Bigip Icontrol Rest Context

0 classes · 0 properties

JSON-LD

F5 Networks Context

0 classes · 6 properties

JSON-LD

API Governance Rules

F5 Networks API Rules

7 rules · 7 errors

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