F5 Launches NGINX One
September 17, 2024
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F5 announced general availability of F5 NGINX One, combining advanced load balancing, web and application server capabilities, API gateway functionalities, and security features in a dedicated package.

Customers are now able to simply manage and secure F5 NGINX instances and NGINX Open Source from a single cloud management interface. End-to-end visibility speeds apps to market and enables advanced features like AI more efficiently versus a traditional siloed approach.

This new offering makes NGINX technology easier to deploy, unlocking capabilities unmatched by competitors. NGINX One consolidates formerly individual offerings such as NGINX Plus into a unified solution, leading to cost savings and simplified deployments. Via the new NGINX One Console, customers can ensure global policy compliance and establish a comprehensive view of NGINX, making it easier for organizations to do the right thing for their teams and their business.

“Successful application deployment is a team sport,” said Shawn Wormke, Vice President and General Manager for NGINX at F5. “App delivery and security functions—and corresponding visibility—are often sequestered among individual groups. NGINX One is ideal for modern, ephemeral, and cloud-native app components such as containers and Kubernetes, providing a solution that cost-effectively optimizes, scales, and secures complicated application and API environments across multiple teams.”

NGINX One improves app security and delivery for development, operations, and platform teams by making it easier to own, optimize, and govern NGINX components in any context. With the NGINX One Console, teams can broadly and easily enforce security policies across the application ecosystem, receive and implement configuration guidance, and automate version and patch updates—all helping to ensure compliance.

“The success of microservices-based and containerized applications and app components relies on the work of many separate teams,” said Jim Mercer, IDC Program Vice President, Software Development, DevOps, and DevSecOps. “NGINX One is essentially designed to make it easier to harmonize these workflows. This release marks the evolution of NGINX from primarily a development tool to a more mature enterprise-class SaaS-based solution. As a result, customers may be able to reduce certain point solutions since they can see performance and security data across the NGINX application landscape without being limited to a single Kubernetes cluster.”

Many organizations run both NGINX Plus and NGINX Open Source but have historically not had cross-team views when making changes or adding NGINX instances. NGINX One extends visibility and observability across multiple functions, enabling unified policy enforcement and ensuring that dev teams can scale apps in line with business demands. NGINX One also provides updated visualization tools to clearly monitor and present data to each team in the application delivery workflow, further enhancing compelling use cases such as zero trust initiatives and AI inference solutions.

As delivering applications becomes more complex, NGINX One provides simplified and centralized management that enables enterprises to innovate more quickly without compromising security or observability. Running alongside F5 Distributed Cloud Services’ growing feature set, the NGINX One Console provides SaaS-based visibility and management so customers can add security and optimization functionality with just a few clicks in an updated GUI. Previously, platform and network operations were often required to perform a series of manual tasks to configure and update instances running in different infrastructure environments.

Customers can now benefit from performance advantages across the F5 solution portfolio, putting observability, licensing, and configuration all in one place. This approach enables new app and API security and optimization capabilities to be deployed across both NGINX and Distributed Cloud Services. In addition, NGINX One provides new sets of telemetry and AI capabilities for additional insight into app performance, security, and scaling needs—including surfacing areas for improvement and providing specific recommendations.

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