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About

The F5 Distributed Cloud Platform delivers improved functionality, advanced security controls, and more simplified operations than native services from cloud providers. A cloud-based platform that is purpose-built to support distributed applications across multi-cloud, on-premises, and edge environments. As applications evolve through microservices and increased dependencies on APIs, new highly distributed architectures are introducing greater complexities, costs, and increased risks. Multiple appliances, software, and connectivity services must be deployed and managed to deliver apps. Traditional CDNs and hub-spoke networks were not designed for immersive or large-scale SaaS apps. Services with different APIs, policies, and observability require investments in automation. Apps deployed across distributed environments are not equally protected. Difficult to align DevOps, NetOps, and SecOps across service provisioning and security using ticket-based workflows.

About

Massdriver is an internal developer platform and platform orchestrator. Platform teams publish the Terraform, OpenTofu, and Helm they already write to a catalog; developers and AI agents provision from it with policy enforced before every deploy. Self-hosted or managed. Platform and operations teams encode their security, compliance, and cost requirements into pre-approved modules using the IaC tools they already use. Developers and AI agents discover and provision those modules from a central catalog, and policy is checked before anything is created. Built-in secrets management, monitoring, and attribute-based access control cover AWS, Azure, GCP, and Kubernetes. Massdriver generates an ephemeral pipeline per deploy from each module's own tooling, so there are no standing CI/CD pipelines to maintain. Run it self-hosted, on-prem, or in your cloud, or let Massdriver manage it for you.

Platforms Supported

Windows Not Supported
Mac Not Supported
Linux Not Supported
Cloud Supported
On-Premises Supported
iPhone Not Supported
iPad Not Supported
Android Not Supported
Chromebook Not Supported

Platforms Supported

Windows Not Supported
Mac Not Supported
Linux Not Supported
Cloud Supported
On-Premises Supported
iPhone Not Supported
iPad Not Supported
Android Not Supported
Chromebook Not Supported

Audience

Professionals and companies seeking a solution to manage their cloud networking security

Audience

Enterprise ops/platform teams looking to enable their developers to self-serve infrastructure.

Support

Phone Support Supported
24/7 Live Support Supported
Online Supported

Support

Phone Support Not Supported
24/7 Live Support Not Supported
Online Supported

API

Offers API Supported

API

Offers API Supported

Screenshots and Videos

Screenshots and Videos

Pricing

$25 per month
Free Version Supported
Free Trial Supported

Pricing

Free trial
Business: $999/month per 15 seats with private Slack support, built for scaling teams (billed annually).
*Price breaks begin at 60+ seats.

Enterprise: Custom pricing, self-hosted/on prem available, SLAs, and tailored onboarding, perfect for complex organizations.
Free Version Not Supported
Free Trial Supported

Reviews/Ratings

Overall 5.0 / 5
ease 5.0 / 5
features 5.0 / 5
design 5.0 / 5
support 5.0 / 5

Reviews/Ratings

Overall 5.0 / 5
ease 4.7 / 5
features 4.7 / 5
design 4.3 / 5
support 5.0 / 5

Pros & Cons from Real Users

Pros

  • Provides advanced protection with integrated WAF, DDoS, and API security against security threats. It offers traffic routing through a distributed network across multi-cloud and on-premises and makes the operations easier. It supports zero trust principles, ensuring secure access. Supports API-centric architectures. POPs make the applications closer to end users, which reduces the latency.

Cons

  • This is a cloud platform; the offline operations cannot be done. It depends on high-speed internet, which can be a limitation in certain regions. Sometimes the support is very poor, taking time to figure out an issue.

Pros & Cons from Real Users

Pros

  • Massdriver helped us to significantly improve our infrastructure and DevOps processes. We managed to migrate from a simple docker containers setup to a fully fledged Kubernetes clusters with automated deployments and infrastructure analytics. It has enabled our team to deploy various new services within minutes that would have otherwise taken us days to get familiar with. I really like that I can easily see the cost of each service I have provisioned, split by project and deployment environment. This feature has helped us save almost 25% of our monthly cloud costs.
  • 1. User-Friendly Design: Massdriver offers a visual design interface that allows developers to easily design infrastructure and services. 2. Ready to deploy bundles: With just a few clicks, you can deploy anything, which saves a ton of time. 3. Compliance and Security: The platform ensures compliance with best practices and security guardrails, making it a reliable choice for organizations. 4. Cost and Health Monitoring: It provides cost estimation and health monitoring features, enabling developers to manage their systems efficiently.
  • - Easily visualizes the entire cloud structure - Connecting MicroServices and Cloud Components easy with UI based connections - CI/CD integration with their custom actions is super easy to set up - Best Support I have ever seen - Cloud Cost summaries in the Canvas - Built-in best practices and compliance - Clone environments for easy testing and deployment

Cons

  • The team is doing a great job so far at accepting feedback from customers and addresses issues promptly. In my opinion there are a few improvements of the platform UI that can help developers navigate and collaborate when provisioning their infrastructure.
  • Learning Curve: While Massdriver is designed to be user-friendly, there may be a learning curve for developers who are new to infrastructure-as-code modules. PS: The only con I can think of.
  • As it is a product in development not all Azure resources are covered yet, but the team is always eager to include requested features and packages.

Training

Documentation Supported
Webinars Supported
Live Online Not Supported
In Person Supported

Training

Documentation Supported
Webinars Supported
Live Online Supported
In Person Supported

Company Information

F5
Founded: 1996
United States
www.f5.com/products/distributed-cloud-services/platform-overview

Company Information

Massdriver
Founded: 2021
United States
www.massdriver.cloud/

Alternatives

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Cortex Cloud

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Alternatives

Chef

Chef

Progress Software

Categories

Categories

Cloud Cost Management Features

Cost Reduction Optimization Supported
Dashboard Supported
Data Import/Export Not Supported
Data Storage Not Supported
Data Visualization Supported
Resource Usage Reporting Supported
Roles / Permissions Supported
Spend and Cost Reporting Supported

Cloud Management Features

Access Control Supported
Billing & Provisioning Supported
Capacity Analytics Not Supported
Cost Management Supported
Demand Monitoring Not Supported
Multi-Cloud Management Supported
Performance Analytics Not Supported
SLA Management Not Supported
Supply Monitoring Not Supported
Workflow Approval Not Supported

Cloud Security Features

Antivirus Not Supported
Application Security Not Supported
Behavioral Analytics Not Supported
Encryption Supported
Endpoint Management Not Supported
Incident Management Not Supported
Intrusion Detection System Not Supported
Threat Intelligence Not Supported
Two-Factor Authentication Supported
Vulnerability Management Not Supported

DevOps Features

Approval Workflow Not Supported
Dashboard Supported
KPIs Not Supported
Policy Management Supported
Portfolio Management Not Supported
Prioritization Not Supported
Release Management Supported
Timeline Management Supported
Troubleshooting Reports Supported

IT Infrastructure Monitoring Features

Alerts / Notifications Supported
Application Monitoring Supported
Bandwidth Monitoring Not Supported
Capacity Planning Not Supported
Configuration Change Management Supported
Data Movement Monitoring Not Supported
Health Monitoring Supported
Multi-Platform Support Supported
Performance Monitoring Supported
Point-in-Time Visibility Not Supported
Reporting / Analytics Not Supported
Virtual Machine Monitoring Not Supported

IT Management Features

Capacity Monitoring Not Supported
Compliance Management Supported
Event Logs Supported
Hardware Inventory Not Supported
IT Budgeting Supported
License Management Not Supported
Patch Management Not Supported
Remote Access Not Supported
Scheduling Not Supported
Software Inventory Not Supported
User Activity Monitoring Not Supported

Integrations

Amazon Web Services (AWS) Supported
Google Cloud Platform Supported
Kubernetes Supported
Terraform Supported
Datadog Supported
Docker Not Supported
F5 Distributed Cloud App Stack Supported
F5 Distributed Cloud CDN Supported
F5 Distributed Cloud DNS Load Balancer Supported
F5 Distributed Cloud WAF Supported
GitHub Not Supported
Linkerd Supported
Microsoft Azure Not Supported
OpenTofu Not Supported
Opsgenie Supported
PagerDuty Supported
Pulumi Not Supported
Slack Supported
VMware Cloud Supported

Integrations

Amazon Web Services (AWS) Supported
Google Cloud Platform Supported
Kubernetes Supported
Terraform Supported
Datadog Not Supported
Docker Supported
F5 Distributed Cloud App Stack Not Supported
F5 Distributed Cloud CDN Not Supported
F5 Distributed Cloud DNS Load Balancer Not Supported
F5 Distributed Cloud WAF Not Supported
GitHub Supported
Linkerd Not Supported
Microsoft Azure Supported
OpenTofu Supported
Opsgenie Not Supported
PagerDuty Not Supported
Pulumi Supported
Slack Not Supported
VMware Cloud Not Supported
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