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F5 Distributed Cloud App Stack

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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

Key Features

Learn about the best (and worst!) features F5 Distributed Cloud App Stack has to offer, as determined by TrustRadius' reviewers.
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Top Performing Features

  • Analytics, Monitoring, and Logging

    Product provides tools to manage performance, health, and other data related to containers or clusters. This could include analytics tools, logging tools, live dashboards, etc.

    Category average: 8.2

  • Resource Allocation and Optimization

    Product’s ability to balance resource requirements, availability needs, and workload intensity to optimize resource usage.

    Category average: 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

Areas for Improvement

  • Cluster Management

    Product’s ability to centralize the management of multiple container or node clusters.

    Category average: 8.2

  • 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: 7.9

  • Container Orchestration

    The product’s ability to automate networking, deployment, scaling, and other container management functions.

    Category average: 8.2

Reviews

What users are saying about F5 Distributed Cloud App Stack.
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BIG-IP Cloud App Stack a powerful solution for managing and protecting apps from the cloud to the edge.

Incentivized
Verified User
Contributor in Information Technology (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Great for load balancing, traffic management, securing, and protecting cloud apps. It is a scalable and flexible platform with multiple features to support complex hybrid and multi-cloud environments. BIG-IP Cloud App Stack is slightly on the expensive side, but worth the cost given its WAF and DDoS protection and its integration with DevOps workflows.

Pros

  • Complex cloud configurations.
  • WAF and DDoS protection.
  • Automation and workflow integration.

Cons

  • Complex to configure.
  • Price
  • Overkill solution for small businesses.

Return on Investment

  • Price
  • Frequent patching.
  • Clunky terraform/UI.

Usability

Other Software Used

Infoblox DDI (BloxOne), F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM), F5 BIG-IP DNS

review of F5 Distributed Cloud App

Incentivized
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

Usability

F5 Distributed Cloud App Stack Review

Incentivized
Verified User
Employee in Information Technology (201-500 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

In our organization, 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

Wowza!

Incentivized
Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology (201-500 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

In our organization, we use F5 Distributed Cloud App Stack to 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)

Great service!

Incentivized
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

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