Mar 27, 2026 - For details about updated CVE-2025-53521 (BIG-IP APM vulnerability), refer to K000156741.

F5 Container Ingress Services (CIS) deployment using Cilium CNI and static routes

  F5 Container Ingress Services (CIS) supports static route configuration to enable direct routing from F5 BIG-IP to Kubernetes/OpenShift Pods as an alternative to VXLAN tunnels. Static rout...
Published Feb 06, 2026
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Escalation Engineer @F5Networks. I specialize in F5 CIS deployments/troubleshooting, automating BIG-IP on AWS/Azure deployments using cloud CLI tools, infrastructure-as-code with Terraform, Go web development, and providing API-driven solutions Tech stack: F5 CIS | Kubernetes | Terraform | Go | AWS/Azure CLI | REST APIs | Telemetry/AS3
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Mar 08, 2026

"static routes" is a great CIS feature as this way you don't need zebos/imish routing module on F5 to talk with bgp to the k8s cluster but why it is not available also for calico ?