Vendor

F5

Platforms provided by F5 that perform functions documented in IT Atlas, with the deployment models they support and the topics that explain them.

2 platformsHybridCommercialOpen Source

Platforms

Load Balancer

F5 BIG IP

Application delivery controller providing layer 4, 7 load balancing, TLS offload and WAF.

Hybrid · Commercial

Reverse Proxy

NGINX

High performance reverse proxy, load balancer and web server.

Hybrid · Open Source

Topics that explain these platforms

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Load Balancing

Distributing client requests across multiple backend servers to provide scale, resilience and maintainability.

Proxies & Reverse Proxies

Intermediaries that terminate and re originate connections, enabling inspection, caching, publishing and policy enforcement.

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