Discover, develop, and deploy APIs across any data center or cloud using simple, fast, and scalable multi-cloud API management solutions from F5.
Manage and Secure Your APIs to Scale Safely
APIs are a core building block of cloud-native microservice application development—but managing and securing APIs scattered across distributed architectures is a major challenge. By centralizing API management and gateway services, you can safely scale across platforms and development environments to deliver responsive and reliable user experiences. Here’s how F5 can help.
API-centric Security
Protection against common and advanced API-specific vulnerabilities that API gateways can’t deliver. F5 provides cloud-native API management, high-performance API gateways, and security controls all in one solution, reducing tool sprawl and architectural complexity.
Cloud-native Microservice API Architectures
F5 enables DevOps to automatically discover and secure new APIs as developers deploy, reducing friction and risk. You can seamlessly integrate F5 services into virtually any deployment design or architecture—edge proxy, Kubernetes, Ingress gateways, serverless, and more, giving your operational teams the flexibility to create a common architecture across providers.
DevOps and AppDev Friendly
Security, automation, and configuration management as agile as your DevOps teams, speeding up time-to-market at a reduced cost. Integrate infrastructure-as-code along with API security and management for a complete deployment solution your ops teams can rely on in any cloud or container environment.
How to Manage Your APIs to Protect Your Business
Simplify and strengthen your API security
APIs are quickly moving to the top of the list of application threat vectors. Lack of consistent API management integrations among developers and platform ops teams, which can be further constrained by inadequate security controls, creates unneeded complexity and hidden risk for your organization and your customers. Building and managing your APIs needs to be as agile as your applications.
How F5 Helps
Empowering DevOps and AppDev Agility
Performance and scale for any delivery model
F5 provides a comprehensive solution that includes API management, high-performance API gateways, and advanced security controls to create operational efficiencies. Regardless of your architecture, F5 has the right API management
- NGINX Controller API Management: The NGINX Controller API Management Module combines the efficiency of NGINX Plus as an API gateway with control-plane ability.
- NGINX API Gateway: Deliver high-performance processing of north-south and east-west API traffic in real time with the most trusted API gateway.
Modern API Architectures
Cloud-native API gateway and management to scale with your microservice applications
Modern API delivery designs are innovative and fluid. F5 offers API gateway and management solutions that adapt to support virtually any deployment model. Solutions built on NGINX and F5 technology separate management and data planes to maximize performance and scale.
- NGINX Controller: Let your teams define, publish, monitor, and analyze APIs, while keeping developers in control of API design.
- NGINX Plus: F5 delivers high performance on the small footprint of NGINX Plus to accelerate and protect your applications.
- NGINX Ingress Controller: NGINX Ingress Controller is synonymous with high-performing, scalable, and secure modern apps in production.
Cloud-Native Application Development
Enable automation operations to keep pace with development on any platform
Support your DevSecOps practices by adopting “security as code” declarative policies that integrate with existing pipeline tools. Take the burden off developers so they can focus on delivering features and functionality.
- NGINX Controller API Management: Define and publish APIs to any application environment with security, rate limiting, real-time monitoring, and alerting.
- NGINX API Gateway: Deliver high-performance processing of north-south and east-west API traffic in real with the most trusted API gateway.
API-Centric Security
Enable security to keep pace with development
F5 API security solutions elevate your DevSecOps practice by adopting “security as code” declarative policies that integrate with existing pipeline tools. Take the burden off developers so they can focus on delivering better code, faster, with every release.
- F5 Distributed Cloud API Security: Protect apps and APIs deployed across clouds and edge with proven F5 WAF, Bot, and DDoS protection.
- NGINX App Protect: Deliver API native WAF functionality on the agile footprint of NGINX Plus to protect apps against sophisticated threats.
Ecosystem Integrations
From NetOps to DevOps, modern app teams need a self-service API-driven platform that integrates easily into CI/CD workflows and identity providers. Accelerate app deployments and make API lifecycle management easier with integrations to your preferred solution provider.
