Multi-Cloud Networking
Multi-Cloud Networking
Banking
Case Study
Problem/Challenge
Banking customer involved in an advanced stage of digital transformation, operating diverse versions of Kubernetes across both on-premises and public cloud environments such as Openshift, GKE, AKS, and others.
Certain modern applications are distributed, necessitating communication between pods in different clusters. Additionally, customers seek to streamline the orchestration of both app-to-app and client-to-app interactions across clusters and external networks.
Customer needs:
- Simplify and automate the communication between pods located in different clusters in different data centers, even public clouds
- Simplify and automate the configuration process for enabling access to modern applications from users or external applications outside the cluster (and viceversa)
- The service should include application security features
F5 Services
- F5 Distributed Cloud WAAP
- App Connect
Solution
F5 Distributed Cloud App Connect allows to simplify and automate app-to-app and client-to-app communication at Layer 7. The customer enables the dynamic and programmable creation of endpoints, whether inside or outside a Kubernetes cluster, facilitating communication between applications or users located in diverse environments, including on-premises or cloud setups. This functionality streamlines connectivity without necessitating the management of routing protocols or firewall rules, even in scenarios involving IP overlapping between data centers or clouds. This solution can use the F5 Global Network or the Customer’s WAN network as transport network.
F5 Distributed Cloud App Connect is also integrated with F5 WAAP solution; there is no need to add external WAF services or API protection, since the L7 communication is natively protected by WAAP.
