# Automating F5 Application Delivery and Security Platform Deployments

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## The F5 ADSP Architecture Automation Project&nbsp;

The F5 Application Delivery and Security Platform (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](https://github.com/f5devcentral/f5-hybrid-security-architectures) GitHub repo and related projects.

Each article in the series highlights a different deployment example. The examples can be run locally or integrated into CI/CD pipelines following DevSecOps practices. The repositories are community-supported and intended as reference code 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)

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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.

- **xOps** — day-to-day operations, observability, and lifecycle management
- **Deployment** — getting workloads where they need to go, at the scale they need
- **Delivery** — traffic management across hybrid and multi-cloud environments
- **Security** — protecting applications and APIs from current threats

Each architecture deployment example in this series is designed to cover at least three of the four core areas. This ensures the examples demonstrate how multiple components of the platform work together in practice, rather than showcasing any single feature in isolation.

## **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.

In practice across the series, that means Terraform for infrastructure and F5 configuration, GitHub Actions as the pipeline runner, federated cloud identity instead of long lived keys, secrets handled through the platform rather than committed, and vulnerable target applications so the security controls can be exercised end-to-end.

## Contribute

The repos are community-supported. Open an issue, send a PR, or port a use case to another cloud.

## **Resources:**

[F5 Application Delivery and Security Platform GitHub Repo and Automation Guide](https://github.com/f5devcentral/F5-ADSP-Automation)

### **ADSP Architecture Article Series:**

Automating F5 ADSP Deployments (Intro)  
[Automating F5 ADSP Deployments (Part 1 - F5 XC WAF and BIG-IP Adv. WAF)](https://community.f5.com/topic/346448)&nbsp;  
[Automating F5 ADSP Deployments (Part 2 - F5 XC WAF and NGINX App Protect)](https://community.f5.com/topic/346841)&nbsp;  
[Automating F5 ADSP Deployments (Part 3 - F5 XC API Protection and NGINX Ingress)](https://community.f5.com/topic/310613)&nbsp;  
[Automating F5 ADSP Deployments (Part 4 - F5 XC API Security and NGINX Gateway Fabric)](https://community.f5.com/topic/346838)&nbsp;  
[Automating F5 ADSP Deployments (Part 5 - F5 XC, BIG-IP APM, CIS, and NGINX Ingress)](https://community.f5.com/topic/320168)&nbsp;  
[Minimizing Security Complexity: Managing Distributed WAF Policies](https://community.f5.com/topic/321168)