Your apps—fast, available and secure in any cloud
Equinix recently announced that the NGINX Plus load balancer from F5 is now available as a new Network Edge virtual device. The F5 NGINX Plus load balancer intelligently distributes traffic between the clouds, ensuring there is no single point of failure. If one of the application layers fails, the NGINX Plus load balancer automatically redistributes the traffic between the remaining available servers.
Typically, NGINX Plus is paired with other Network Edge digital services to form a multitiered network stack that can be deployed and scaled much quicker and more cost-effectively than traditional hardware-based network infrastructure.
Business Continuity
For organizations building a multi-cloud architecture, adding NGINX Plus load balancing within Network Edge is particularly beneficial for maintaining business continuity by minimizing reliance on a single cloud provider and increase resilience.
Distributed Architecture
Enables customers to manage a distributed architecture by monitoring and managing server availability across the globe.
Scalability
Handle billions of transactions every hour while maintaining control over a customer’s network footprint.
As organizations find it necessary to deploy applications beyond public clouds, application intensive businesses require a new distributed architecture that deploys applications as close to the consumer as possible. However, this new architecture does come with challenges, such as the complexity of deploying and operating apps across diverse locations, the difficulty of maintaining a mismatched stack of app services and consistent policies across apps and environments and the need for code modifications or rewrites to support deployments at the edge.
To secure and reliably manage distributed application components, customers need a common, easy to use platform from which they can easily install control plane and data plane services. F5® Distributed Cloud Mesh nodes deployed on Equinix Metal or within Equinix International Business Exchanges deliver this on a global scale.
Locating F5 Distributed Cloud Mesh nodes within Equinix data centers enables customers to manage and secure traffic going to and from any edge endpoint, cloud, or on-premises location to anywhere else on the combined Equinix Fabric and F5 deployment. This combination creates a worldwide connected regional edge infrastructure which acts as an aggregation and delivery point for services directly to your consumer edge application and local edge data points.
Documentation on how to create a multi-node KVM site on Equinix Metal can be found here.
Centralized management plane
Enable access with distributed control and data plane across cloud or edge.
API gateway and advanced security
Mitigate risk by providing dynamic, centralized and adaptive access control.
Access for users to all applications
Leverage multi-cluster service mesh for microservices and monolithic applications.
Full multi-tenancy
Get full self-service abilities for collaboration across DevOps, NetOps, SecOps.