Automating F5 Application Delivery and Security Platform Deployments

The F5 ADSP Architecture Automation Project 

The F5 ADSP reduces the complexity of modern applications by integrating operations, traffic management, performance optimization, and security controls into a single platform with multiple deployment options.  This series outlines practical steps anyone can take to put these ideas into practice using the F5 ADSP Architectures GitHub repo.  Each article highlights different deployment examples, which can be run locally or integrated into CI/CD pipelines following DevSecOps practices.  The repository is community-supported and provides reference code that can be used for demos, workshops, or as a stepping stone for your own F5 ADSP deployments.  If you find any bugs or have any enhancement requests, open an issue, or better yet, contribute.

The F5 Application Delivery and Security Platform (F5 ADSP)

The F5 ADSP addresses four core areas: how you operate day to day, how you deploy at scale, how you secure against evolving threats, and how you deliver reliably across environments.  Each comes with its own challenges, but together they define the foundation for keeping systems fast, stable, and safe.  Each architecture deployment example is designed to cover at least two of the four core areas: xOps, Deployment, Delivery, and Security. This ensures the examples demonstrate how multiple components of the platform work together in practice.

DevSecOps:

Integrating security into the software delivery lifecycle is a necessary part of building and maintaining secure applications. This project incorporates DevSecOps practices by using supported APIs and tooling, with each use case including a GitHub repository containing IaC code, CI/CD integration examples, and telemetry options.

Resources:

F5 Application Delivery and Security Platform GitHub Repo and Guide 

ADSP Architecture Article Series:

Automating F5 Application Delivery and Security Platform Deployments (Intro)
F5 Hybrid Security Architectures (Part 1 - F5's Distributed Cloud WAF and BIG-IP Advanced WAF) 
F5 Hybrid Security Architectures (Part 2 - F5's Distributed Cloud WAF and NGINX App Protect WAF) 
F5 Hybrid Security Architectures (Part 3 - F5 XC API Protection and NGINX Ingress Controller) 
F5 Hybrid Security Architectures (Part 4 - F5 XC BOT and DDoS Defense and BIG-IP Advanced WAF) 
F5 Hybrid Security Architectures (Part 5 - F5 XC, BIG-IP APM, CIS, and NGINX Ingress Controller) 
Minimizing Security Complexity: Managing Distributed WAF Policies 

Published Sep 03, 2025
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