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 ?