Increase Your Innovation Velocity with BIG-IP Automation

By harnessing the power of automation, NetOps teams can unlock a multitude of benefits, ranging from increased operational efficiency and scalability to improved security posture and cost savings.

Across multiple industries, F5 is helping companies rapidly adapt to evolving market dynamics. Here are a few automation use case examples with dramatic results:

Transform and Optimize App Deployment and Management

A leading manufacturer's application rollouts hampered operational efficiency and effectiveness. Bogged down by two-week release cycles involving handoffs between multiple teams, everyone was frustrated by the fragmentation and interdepartmental barriers holding them back.

By embracing F5's BIG-IP Automation Toolchain and implementing infrastructure as code (IaC), the manufacturer enabled a self-service catalog for application developers, resulting in streamlined operations and enhanced development agility. Specific efficiency improvements throughout the organization include:

• Successfully migrated ~3000 apps in 24 hours while maintaining production
• Reduced app deployment times from approximately 15 days to just a few minutes
• Greatly reduced the training and subject matter expertise needed to manage and maintain the apps and services
• Removed manual, error-prone processes

Improved Consistency and Cost Savings

Prior to automating their BIG-IP deployment experience, a leading bank struggled to maintain consistency in the configuration of its BIG-IP instances, applications, and services across their hybrid cloud environment. Their manual configuration and management processes led to deployment delays, instance discrepancies, and security policy variations. This resulted in configuration drift that threatened the security, reliability, and stability of their apps and overall infrastructure.

After adopting F5 automation, the bank could quickly scale their BIG-IP fleet, along with associated apps and services, to securely meet growing demand in minutes.

Further, because automation reduces the need for manual tasks and minimizes the potential for downtime and disruptions, the bank also achieved OpEx savings of thousands of dollars, per instance per year.

Increased Flexibility and Enhanced Security

F5 also provides automation services to a leading retailer who struggled to keep up with network changes required during seasonal demand fluctuations. This retailer requires the ability to move workloads from BIG-IP hardware to software and the flexibility to burst to the cloud during the heaviest parts of the shopping season.

Automation now enables the retailer to scale their BIG-IP services dynamically based on fluctuating demand. By monitoring traffic patterns and resource utilization in real time, F5's BIG-IP automation systems can automatically provision additional resources on the retailer's BIG-IP hardware or spin up virtual instances in software-defined environments to handle the increased workload. This allows seamless integrations in a hybrid cloud environment and maintains secure, policy-based management across all instances, regardless of where they are located.

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