Cisco ACI and F5 BIG-IP Integration
Confidently deploy F5 and Cisco data center, security and cloud integrations and realize operational benefits and increased application security across environments.
Use Cases
Together, F5 and Cisco technologies enable operational gains, consistent management across your network, and improved security against key threat vectors. Benefits include:
- Operational consistency across today’s dynamic networks through enhanced management, visibility, and security.
- The ability to rapidly deploy and scale trust-based access to all applications, regardless of where they’re located—in the cloud or on-premises.
- Centralized decryption and re-encryption using best-in-class hardware acceleration with modern cipher implementations and software orchestration, maximizing the productivity of your security stack.
Explore data center use cases
Monitor application health and traffic status correlated with Cisco APIC constructs.
Flexibly provision and deploy L4–7 configuration with or without templates.
Manage day 0–N network configurations on BIG-IP.
Automate application server(s) addition and removal from a BIG-IP pool, based on endpoint learning on Cisco APIC.
Explore security use cases
Increases availability by maximizing efficiency. A powerful intelligence engine discerns context and lets you implement policy based on it.
Deliver centralized visibility, orchestration, security, and control of web traffic. |
Why F5 and Cisco
F5 and Cisco partner across functional areas to create synergistic value in enterprise and security domains. Integration of our technologies has provided outcomes with strategic and measurable operational benefits.
Our focus is on use cases that solve real-world challenges and deliver real-world value. These use cases help break down silos between different teams, streamline operations via an automated approach, and position you to benefit from future innovations from F5 and Cisco.
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Explore F5 Solutions with Cisco
Data Center
Provide administrators with a single point of automation and visibility for L2–3, as well as L4–7 app services between F5 BIG-IP and Cisco ACI.
F5 ACI ServiceCenter
Get a single point of automation with enhanced visibility into Cisco ACI and F5 BIG-IP.
Ansible, Ansible Tower, and F5 ACI ServiceCenter
Automate F5 BIG-IP and Cisco ACI use cases using Ansible and Ansible Tower.
Application Security
Increase ROI and improve user experience with improved firewall speed and efficiency, while at the same time enabling zero trust adaptive authentication and secure access.
F5 SSL Orchestrator and Cisco Firepower Threat Defense
High-performance decryption of inbound/outbound SSL/TLS traffic, enabling inspection to expose threats and stop attacks.
Zero Trust Adaptive Access
F5 BIG-IP Access Policy Manager (APM) integrates with Duo to add two-factor authentication to any VPN login, complete with inline self-service enrollment and Duo Prompt.
Implementation Guide: BIG-IP APM Configuration to Support Duo MFA
Describes the BIG-IP APM configuration required for Duo MFA integration using an iRule.
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Next Steps
Experience the hands-on lab
Explore Cisco’s dCloud and see how F5 ACI ServiceCenter works with ACI in a test environment.