Business Software for F5 Distributed Cloud Platform

Google Cloud is a cloud-based service that allows you to create anything from simple websites to complex applications for businesses of all sizes. New customers get $300 in free credits to run, test, and deploy workloads. All customers can use 25+ products for free, up to monthly usage limits. Use Google's core infrastructure, data analytics & machine learning. Secure and fully featured for all enterprises. Tap into big data to find answers faster and build better products. Grow from prototype to production to planet-scale, without having to think about capacity, reliability or performance. From virtual machines with proven price/performance advantages to a fully managed app development platform. Scalable, resilient, high performance object storage and databases for your applications. State-of-the-art software-defined networking products on Google’s private fiber network. Fully managed data warehousing, batch and stream processing, data exploration, Hadoop/Spark, and messaging.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive cloud platform, trusted by millions of customers across industries. From startups to global enterprises and government agencies, AWS provides on-demand solutions for compute, storage, networking, AI, analytics, and more. The platform empowers organizations to innovate faster, reduce costs, and scale globally with unmatched flexibility and reliability. With services like Amazon EC2 for compute, Amazon S3 for storage, SageMaker for AI/ML, and CloudFront for content delivery, AWS covers nearly every business and technical need. Its global infrastructure spans 120 availability zones across 38 regions, ensuring resilience, compliance, and security. Backed by the largest community of customers, partners, and developers, AWS continues to lead the cloud industry in innovation and operational expertise.

Kubernetes (K8s) is an open-source system for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications. It groups containers that make up an application into logical units for easy management and discovery. Kubernetes builds upon 15 years of experience of running production workloads at Google, combined with best-of-breed ideas and practices from the community. Designed on the same principles that allows Google to run billions of containers a week, Kubernetes can scale without increasing your ops team. Whether testing locally or running a global enterprise, Kubernetes flexibility grows with you to deliver your applications consistently and easily no matter how complex your need is. Kubernetes is open source giving you the freedom to take advantage of on-premises, hybrid, or public cloud infrastructure, letting you effortlessly move workloads to where it matters to you.

Slack is a cloud-based project collaboration and team interaction software solution specially designed to seamlessly facilitate communication across organizations. Featuring powerful tools and services integrated into a single platform, Slack provides private channels to promote interaction within smaller teams, direct channels to help send messages directly to colleagues, and public channels that enables members across organizations to start conversations. Available on Mac, Windows, Android, and iOS apps, Slack offers a plethora of features that include chat, file sharing, collaborative workspace, real-time notifications, two-way audio and video, screen sharing, document imaging, activity tracking and logging, and more.

PagerDuty, Inc. (NYSE:PD) is a leader in digital operations management. In an always-on world, organizations of all sizes trust PagerDuty to help them deliver a perfect digital experience to their customers, every time. Teams use PagerDuty to identify issues and opportunities in real time and bring together the right people to fix problems faster and prevent them in the future. PagerDuty's ecosystem of over 350+ integrations, including Slack, Zoom, ServiceNow, AWS, Microsoft Teams, Salesforce, and more, enable teams to centralize their technology stack, get a holistic view of their operations, and optimize processes within their toolsets.

Datadog is the monitoring, security and analytics platform for developers, IT operations teams, security engineers and business users in the cloud age. Our SaaS platform integrates and automates infrastructure monitoring, application performance monitoring and log management to provide unified, real-time observability of our customers' entire technology stack. Datadog is used by organizations of all sizes and across a wide range of industries to enable digital transformation and cloud migration, drive collaboration among development, operations, security and business teams, accelerate time to market for applications, reduce time to problem resolution, secure applications and infrastructure, understand user behavior and track key business metrics.

Stay aware and in control of all Dev and Ops incidents. Notify the right people, reduce response time, and avoid alert fatigue. Opsgenie is a modern incident management platform that ensures critical incidents are never missed, and actions are taken by the right people in the shortest possible time. Opsgenie receives alerts from your monitoring systems and custom applications and categorizes each alert based on importance and timing. On-call schedules ensure the right people are notified through multiple communication channels including voice calls, email, SMS, and push messages on mobile devices. If an alert is not acknowledged, Opsgenie automatically escalates it, ensuring the incident gets the needed attention. Sign up for an instant free trial.

Mitigate web app attacks and vulnerabilities with comprehensive security controls and uniform policy and observability via our SaaS-delivered WAF that’s quick to set up and deploy, and easy to manage and scale across any environment. Simplify app security by seamlessly integrating protections into the development process with core security functionality, centralized orchestration, and oversight. F5 Distributed Cloud WAF eases the burden and complexity of consistently securing apps across clouds, on-premises, and edge locations. Delivering the programmability that DevOps needs combined with the efficacy and oversight that SecOps mandates, enabling faster, more secure application delivery and release cycles. Quickly improve visibility and insight across all security events including WAF signatures hit, DoS events, automated and persistent threats, and all other client interactions along with app performance, including intuitive drill-down capabilities.

Terraform is an open-source infrastructure as code software tool that provides a consistent CLI workflow to manage hundreds of cloud services. Terraform codifies cloud APIs into declarative configuration files. Write infrastructure as code using declarative configuration files. HashiCorp Configuration Language (HCL) allows for concise descriptions of resources using blocks, arguments, and expressions. Run terraform plan to check whether the execution plan for a configuration matches your expectations before provisioning or changing infrastructure. Apply changes to hundreds of cloud providers with terraform apply to reach the desired state of the configuration. Define infrastructure as code to manage the full lifecycle — create new resources, manage existing ones, and destroy those no longer needed.

A multi-cloud service networking platform to connect and secure services across any runtime platform and public or private cloud. Real-time health and location information of all services. Progressive delivery and zero trust security with less overhead. Receive peace of mind that all HCP connections are secured out of the box. Gain insight into service health and performance metrics with built-in visualization directly in the Consul UI or by exporting metrics to a third-party solution. Many modern applications have migrated towards decentralized architectures as opposed to traditional monolithic architectures. This is especially true with microservices. Since applications are composed of many inter-dependent services, there's a need to have a topological view of the services and their dependencies. Furthermore, there is a desire to have insight into health and performance metrics for the different services.

Deliver modern dynamic experiences across multiple public and private clouds, edge locations, and on-premises environments. Increase performance by running workloads closer to end users and gear up for future growth. Mitigate web app attacks and vulnerabilities with comprehensive security controls and uniform policy and observability, including simplified deployment and management of app security across environments. Built on a high-performance, secure global private network, F5 Distributed Cloud CDN enables rich digital experiences for end users. Distributed Cloud CDN integrates with critical app security services to empower your organization as it pursues multi-cloud and edge-based initiatives. Built on a high-performance, secure global private network, F5 Distributed Cloud CDN enables rich digital experiences for end users. Distributed Cloud CDN integrates with critical app security services to empower your organization as it pursues multi-cloud and edge-based initiatives.

Leverage an expertly engineered global load balancing platform on infrastructure that ensures fast performance. The DNS is fully configurable via APIs, with DDoS protection and no appliances to manage. Direct traffic to the nearest application instance and/or route traffic for GDPR compliancy. Split loads across compute instances. Detect failed or degraded resource instances and reroute clients. Maintain high availability with disaster recovery. Automatically detect primary site failures, get zero-touch failover, and dynamically fail applications over to designated or available instances. Simplify cloud-based DNS management and load balancing and get disaster recovery to ease the burden on your operations and development teams. F5’s cloud-based, intelligent DNS with global server load balancing (GSLB) efficiently directs application traffic across environments globally, performs health checks, and automates responses to activities and events to maintain high performance among apps.

Build, run, manage, connect and protect all of your apps on any cloud. The Multi-Cloud solutions from VMware deliver a cloud operating model for all applications. Support your digital business initiatives with the world’s most proven and widely deployed cloud infrastructure. Leverage the same skills you use in the data center, while tapping into the depth and breadth of six global hyperscale public cloud providers and 4,000+ VMware Cloud Provider Partners. With hybrid cloud built on VMware Cloud Foundation, you get consistent infrastructure and operations for new and existing cloud native applications, from data center to cloud to edge. This consistency improves agility and reduces complexity, cost and risk. Build, run and manage modern apps on any cloud, meeting diverse needs with on-premises and public cloud resources. Manage both container-based workloads and traditional VM-based workloads on a single platform.

Innovate faster in the cloud, elevate user experience and future-proof your applications. Built for the cloud-native enterprise, Splunk helps you solve modern issues. Detect any issue before it turns into a customer problem. Reduce MTTR with our real-time, AI-driven Directed Troubleshooting. Flexible, open-source instrumentation eliminates lock-in. Maximize performance by seeing everything in your application, and act on AI-driven analytics. To deliver a flawless end-user experience, you need to observe everything. With NoSample™ full-fidelity trace ingestion, leverage all your trace data to identify any anomaly. Reduce MTTR with Directed Troubleshooting to quickly understand service dependencies, correlation with underlying infrastructure and root-cause error mapping. Breakdown and explore any transaction by any metric or dimension. Quickly and easily understand how your application behaves for different regions, hosts, versions or users.

With Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud, OpenShift developers have a fast and secure way to containerize and deploy enterprise workloads in Kubernetes clusters. Because IBM manages OpenShift Container Platform (OCP), you'll have more time to focus on your core tasks. Automated provisioning and configuration of infrastructure (compute, network and storage), installation and configuration of OpenShift. Automatic scaling, backups and failure recovery for OpenShift configurations, components and worker nodes. Automatic upgrades of all components (operating system, OpenShift components, cluster services) and performance tuning and security hardening. Built-in security including image signing, image deployment enforcement, hardware trust, security patch management, and automatic compliance (HIPAA, PCI, SOC2, ISO).

Protect against Magecart, formjacking, skimming, PII harvesting, and other critical security vulnerabilities. Fill the gap in your security defenses. Gain visibility and control of third-party JavaScript libraries running in your web applications to keep customers’ personal and financial data out of the hands of criminals. Mitigate risk by monitoring JavaScript libraries in real time to identify vulnerabilities and anomalous behavior that could compromise customer data. Avoid customer fraud and compliance fines. Protect against data theft that would undermine customer confidence and damage your brand. Stop software supply chain attacks. Detect and track all third-party scripts running on your site to identify suspicious scripts or changes in the behavior of trusted scripts. Prevent credential stuffing on the client side to block account takeover attempts. Proactively monitor web apps in the browser to catch criminals in the act.

Deploy and orchestrate applications on a managed Kubernetes platform with centralized, SaaS-based management of distributed applications with a single pane of glass and rich observability. Simplify by managing deployments as one across on-prem, cloud, and edge locations. Achieve effortless management and scaling of applications across multiple k8s clusters (customer sites or F5 Distributed Cloud Regional Edge) with a single Kubernetes compatible API, unlocking the ease of multi-cluster management. Deploy, deliver, and secure applications to all locations as one ”virtual” location. Deploy, secure, and operate distributed applications with uniform production grade Kubernetes no matter the location, from private and public cloud to edge locations. Secure K8s Gateway with zero trust security all the way to the cluster with ingress services with WAAP, service policies management, network, and application firewall.

Linkerd adds critical security, observability, and reliability features to your Kubernetes stack—no code change required. Linkerd is 100% Apache-licensed, with an incredibly fast-growing, active, and friendly community. Built in Rust, Linkerd's data plane proxies are incredibly small (<10 mb) and blazing fast (p99 < 1ms). No complex APIs or configuration. For most applications, Linkerd will “just work” out of the box. Linkerd's control plane installs into a single namespace, and services can be safely added to the mesh, one at a time. Get a comprehensive suite of diagnostic tools, including automatic service dependency maps and live traffic samples. Best-in-class observability allows you to monitor golden metrics—success rate, request volume, and latency—for every service.