F5 Distributed Cloud App Stack

Score7.5 out of 10

8 Reviews and Ratings

What is F5 Distributed Cloud App Stack?

A solution to 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. Simplified by managing deployments as one across on-prem, cloud, and edge locations.

Categories & Use Cases

Container Management

Security and Isolation
Product provides effective tools to isolate containers, nodes, and clusters and protect them from threats.
Category average: 8.5
Update Rollouts and Rollbacks
Product provides tools or functionality to deliver updates to containerized applications in ways that minimize the impact of errors, and revert updates that cause problems.
Category average: 7.7
Self-Healing and Recovery
Product can be configured to automatically restart, replace, reschedule, kill, and validate jobs, containers, nodes, or clusters.
Category average: 7.8

Cluster Management
Product’s ability to centralize the management of multiple container or node clusters.
Category average: 8.1
Resource Allocation and Optimization
Product’s ability to balance resource requirements, availability needs, and workload intensity to optimize resource usage.
Category average: 7.8
Discovery Tools
Product provides methods (such as URIs or sortable lists) to easily find and access jobs, nodes, containers, or clusters.
Category average: 8.1

Verified User

Employee in Information Technology (201-500 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are beginning our journey into Kubernetes with F5 Distributed Cloud App Stack and they have become a great partner, helping us each step in the process.

Pros

Kubernetes
Cloud
Ease of use
Value

Cons

Product showcasing
Support

Return on Investment

We are able to consolidate with F5, eliminating Cloudflare.

Usability

Alternatives Considered

F5 Big-IP Advanced Web Application Firewall and F5 Distributed Cloud App Stack

Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology (201-500 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Deploy Kubernetes apps, provide security, and quickly implement DevOps strategy for a faster time to market.

Pros

API DevOps
API Security
Apps

Cons

Labs on demand

Return on Investment

The WAF can be resource intensive in some cases

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

Other Software Used

SUSE Rancher, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

Verified User

Manager in Information Technology (201-500 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We have been tasked with using F5 Distributed Cloud App Stack in many ways. One of those is with load balancing our different apps. Currently we have times when one function or feature does not work in an app and with F5 it is easy to solve for. We also now can use the F5 health checks to ensure everything is working properly.

Pros

Keeps our applications running smoothly
Provides monitoring
Helps with our CICD

Cons

The UI is hard to learn
The use of acronyms is heavy and hard to know without previous experience

Return on Investment

We don't yet have hard numbers but it is already making a positive impact to the end users.

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Agile Fleet FleetCommander

Other Software Used

Activate OS Fleet

Verified User

Contributor in Information Technology (5001-10,000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are using F5 Distributed Cloud App Stack to distribute work load between multiple servers

Pros

Simple interface
Templates help a lot
Clear results

Cons

It's still a little early so the app feels foreign to our ops teams
I would like to customize the UI so I can visually see if I'm in Prod or Dev based on background colors
Templates are a little awkward to create

Return on Investment

Apps are easier to deploy
Internal DNS works simply
simple interface for users

Alternatives Considered

F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM)

Other Software Used

AppViewX ADC+, Infoblox DDI (BloxOne)

Verified User

Manager in Information Technology (11-50 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

use it to host outfacing app , and also to test its robustness before deployment

Pros

ease of use
scalability
security

Cons

bit of learning curve
memory footprint

Return on Investment

simplify container testing
reduce infrastructure maintenace

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Cloudflare

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F5 Distributed Cloud App Stack

What is F5 Distributed Cloud App Stack?

Categories & Use Cases

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Top Performing Features

Security and Isolation

Update Rollouts and Rollbacks

Self-Healing and Recovery

Areas for Improvement

Cluster Management

Resource Allocation and Optimization

Discovery Tools

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