OpenStack integration shows F5’s commitment
to helping customers deploy their cloud platform of choice, with no
compromises on application delivery
F5 Networks (NASDAQ: FFIV) announced today extended capabilities
for OpenStack public, private, and hybrid cloud solutions, allowing
customers to quickly deploy and orchestrate F5 application delivery
services in OpenStack environments. New integrations will be made
available for OpenStack Community Edition software. F5 is also in
the process of certifying its integrations with other leading
technology vendors to further extend the reach of application
delivery services in the cloud. Visit F5 at this week’s OpenStack
Summit in Atlanta, booth #E47.
“We are seeing significant customer interest in adopting more
flexible cloud platforms,” said Dr. Mallik Tatipamula, VP of
Service Provider and Cloud Solutions at F5. “Our growing portfolio
of integrated solutions firmly aligns the BIG-IP® and BIG-IQ®
platforms with OpenStack cloud specifications, extending Software
Defined Application Services™ into the cloud. In addition, our
involvement with the OpenStack community helps position F5
customers to take advantage of emerging capabilities and industry
best practices.”
Details
Building on longstanding technology integration efforts and F5’s
formal entrance into the community last year, the new offerings
give customers powerful ways to combine F5 and OpenStack
technologies. With today’s announcement, F5 will support OpenStack
open source cloud software across four key areas:
- Application Delivery – OpenStack
Networking (Neutron) Load Balancing as a Service (LBaaS) and other
capabilities can be integrated with F5’s BIG-IP and BIG-IQ
solutions via plug-ins for OpenStack Community Edition software,
opening the door for more advanced application delivery services to
follow.
- Orchestration – OpenStack
Orchestration (Heat) integration provides enhanced functionality
with BIG-IQ cloud connector capabilities for OpenStack Community
Edition software.
- Vendor Certification – F5 is in
the process of validating its integrations with other companies in
the community to ensure fully supported, vendor-tested OpenStack
deployments.
- Community Innovation – F5’s
DevCentral™ user community is expanding to better support OpenStack
developers with plug-in downloads, sample code, and documentation
to help organizations maximize their technology investments.
Customers can take advantage of DevCentral resources in sharing
knowledge and experience as they build new, impactful solutions
with F5 and OpenStack.
F5 Application Delivery Controller (ADC) services can now be
deployed within an OpenStack environment, enabling consistent
delivery of applications across private and public clouds.
Beginning with support for OpenStack Neutron LBaaS functionality
and looking forward, F5 customers will be able to integrate
additional ADC services such as application acceleration, high
availability, and security/firewall services.
Customers can leverage their existing F5 BIG-IP physical and
virtual deployments to enable ADC services using OpenStack software
and F5 plug-ins together. With F5 BIG-IQ cloud connector
capabilities, customers can also take advantage of F5’s iApps®
technology to reduce the risk of manual configuration errors and
streamline application deployments across private and public
OpenStack clouds.
Supporting Quotes
“OpenStack Networking (Neutron) and OpenStack Orchestration
(Heat) are two of the fastest-moving programs within the OpenStack
community. Community members like F5 are giving their customers new
ways to consume these OpenStack services while retaining the
familiarity of products they rely upon in their data centers.
That’s an important objective for the community, and F5 is making
it a reality for their customers.”
Heidi Bretz, Director of Business Development, OpenStack
Foundation
“F5’s OpenStack integration efforts, spanning both compute and
network projects, exemplify the company’s desire to meet customers’
wide-ranging cloud application delivery requirements. Given F5’s
experiences with its own DevCentral, the company would appear well
placed to understand how community-based initiatives such as
OpenStack can galvanize developer interest, engender innovation,
and sustain market momentum.”
Brad Casemore, Research Director for Datacenter Networks,
IDC
F5 at OpenStack Summit in Atlanta
During this week’s OpenStack Summit, F5 will showcase
integrations between its market-leading application delivery
solutions and OpenStack technologies. See how you can support
OpenStack deployments with BIG-IP and BIG-IQ solutions—including
LBaaS setup and iApps-based application deployments—in the show’s
exhibition hall at booth #E47.
Availability
F5 cloud connector capabilities for OpenStack are available
today with BIG-IQ solutions. Please contact a local F5 sales
office for additional information and product availability in
specific countries. The OpenStack Neutron LBaaS plug-in for BIG-IP
will be available for download later this month through DevCentral,
supporting Community Edition software. The plug-in for
BIG-IQ will be available via downloads.f5.com in
July 2014.
Additional Resources
- OpenStack Partner Page on f5.com
- OpenStack Materials on F5
DevCentral
About OpenStack
OpenStack is open source software for building clouds. OpenStack
clouds enable businesses to rapidly roll out new products, add new
features, and improve internal systems while preventing technology
lock-in as the only open source cloud platform that’s supported by
every IT industry leader. Hundreds of the world’s largest brands
rely on OpenStack to run their businesses every day, reducing costs
and accelerating time to market. For more information and to join
the community, visit http://www.OpenStack.org.
About F5
F5 (NASDAQ: FFIV) provides solutions for an application world.
F5 helps organizations seamlessly scale cloud, data center, and
software defined networking (SDN) deployments to successfully
deliver applications to anyone, anywhere, at any time. F5 solutions
broaden the reach of IT through an open, extensible framework and a
rich partner ecosystem of leading technology and data center
orchestration vendors. This approach lets customers pursue the
infrastructure model that best fits their needs over time. The
world’s largest businesses, service providers, government entities,
and consumer brands rely on F5 to stay ahead of cloud, security,
and mobility trends. For more information, go to f5.com.
You can also follow @f5networks on Twitter or visit us on
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technologies.
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Networks, Inc., in the U.S. and other countries. All other product
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