Cisco ACI

Infrastructure as Code (IaC) provides the means to automatically deploy both the Cisco ACI network infrastructure configuration and the BIG-IP L4-L7 services for applications. Here, we provide our customers a joint solution and a series of tools that can be used to start their IaC journey.

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With applications transitioning into the cloud, businesses need to automate infrastructure and application deployment in order to stay ahead of the game. F5 and Cisco make programmability and automation inherent parts of operational IT processes, and Ansible provides BIG-IP and ACI users a simple, yet powerful, multi-tier automation and orchestration platform.

Troubleshooting configuration errors can be extremely tedious and painstaking. Cloud ACI can pro-actively monitor drifts in configuration between a stated intent and the actual configuration in the cloud, saving hours of debugging time.

To meet today’s requirements for continuity, availability, and security, network teams need to establish a proactive and predictive operational approach that aligns people, processes, and technology. Key to these “ops of the future” is a network and an operational infrastructure that provides automation, self-healing, and enhanced visibility to reduce mean-time-to-know (MTTK).

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Getting the best understanding possible of deployment options is certainly the key to successful technology deployments. So spending the time and visualizing, in advance, the benefits of our rich integration between BIG-IP and ACI collaboration is the latest positive evolution we can bring you.

Debugging a network issue can be daunting, involving 100's of IP addresses spread across your entire deployment. Imagine having a tool that can get all the information you want from an IP address with a click of a button. The F5 ACI ServiceCenter is designed to do exactly that, and more.