F5 Launches NGINX One, Simplifies App Security and Delivery for Dev, Ops, and Platform Teams
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.”
Today’s application teams in the
enterprise face the unprecedented difficulty of delivering apps across a wide
variety of contexts—from high-performance “bare metal” servers to virtual
machines and sprawling Kubernetes clusters, across data centers and in the
public cloud. Applying uniform policies for security, compliance, and app
delivery configuration has challenged these new widely distributed application
architectures. For many organizations, maintaining hybrid and multicloud
environments adds considerable operational overhead.
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.”
Unified visibility across today’s
hybrid multicloud environments
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.
Centralized configuration and
management of traffic optimization, security, and scale
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.
Simplified integration for enhanced app
and API performance within the F5 ecosystem
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.
“NGINX software and open source
solutions are some of the most widely used technologies on the Internet,
underpinning thousands of application delivery environments,” said Juan Zamora,
CEO and founder of Hopla! Software. “With NGINX One, we can provide
enterprise-grade services and consistent application traffic management for any
deployment model.”
“We rely on NGINX for our Tier 1
applications. NGINX One is giving Medallia lots of visibility into our NGINX
Plus instances, and it has helped us identify some system vulnerabilities,”
said Vinnie Chhabra, IT Engineer at Medallia. “Looking forward, NGINX One will
be essential for our IT and InfoSec teams to expand our visibility into usage,
performance, and security.”
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