With the acceleration of enterprises' access to the cloud, the market continues to put forward higher requirements for cloud computing, and the development of China's distributed cloud computing has entered the stage of practical implementation. As a company known for its load balancing, F5 pays close attention to major strategies such as "accelerating the construction of digital China" and "accelerating the green transformation of development methods", and actively explores the direction and path of distributed cloud computing development. Today, F5 load balancing plays a role that cannot be underestimated in the applications of major enterprises. With the rapid changes in technology and business models, F5, as the industry leader, has launched a solution that can meet corporate innovation and quickly go to market, helping enterprises Create a more efficient and secure application platform, that is, the F5 global distributed cloud platform.
In the past, F5 invested a lot of technical force in the data center, deploying F5 load balancing, intelligent scheduling, firewall, WAF, DDoS and other components in the data center. Since 2020, F5 has invested more technology research and development forces-including designers, architects, developers, and operation and maintenance personnel into the development of distributed clouds. F5's concepts and knowledge have been gradually deployed in F5's global distributed cloud. After years of development, F5 has developed the distributed cloud into a relatively mature platform. At present, quite a few regional nodes have been deployed around the world, and F5 customers have also deployed many edge nodes. These edge nodes and regional nodes are the core nodes of the distributed cloud and form a whole with the current cloud environment and data center .
In the process of implementing the distributed cloud, F5 designed it into two levels. The global SaaS management model, the customer center management platform can be used directly on the Internet, which itself is a multi-tenant operating environment, coupled with today's DevOps, that is, the modern development method, is a modern control plane . F5 fully supports the direct deployment of open source cloud-native applications. The K8S platform is used on the base, so that the overall resource utilization can reach a relatively high level. At the same time, it is consistent with the development path of today's containerized platforms. The new generation of Applications will be released in a containerized manner, so as to obtain a very fast application deployment method, and the routes of mutual access between applications can be displayed on the cloud platform one by one.
Another important layer is security. F5 integrates the security base into the full-stack distributed cloud architecture, and uses the security base to unlock the development of today's application decentralization. F5 introduced the entire SASE concept proposed by Gartner into the development of the full-stack distributed cloud, using artificial intelligence systems to learn and analyze user behavior, thereby improving the security elements of the entire distributed cloud.
Through F5's technology and the ability of F5's load balancing, the application is as close as possible to the actual use environment of the customer, greatly shortening the delay, and ensuring the communication quality. It also helps to carry greater business traffic, thereby effectively covering explosive and sudden-increasing applications, and truly improving the efficiency of investment.