F5 Extends Ability to Scale and Secure Network Traffic Across Kubernetes Clusters
Cloud Native Now, Wednesday, May 28th, 2025
F5 is making available an update to F5 BIG-IP Next Cloud-Native Network Functions (CNF) to make it simpler to scale network traffic horizontally across Kubernetes clusters.
Additionally, version 2.0 of F5 BIG-IP Next CNF provides support for faster DNS queries, an ability to enforce polices along with a set of unified firewall, distributed denial of service (DDoS) mitigations, intrusion prevention system (IPS) and carrier-grade network address translation services that can all be centrally managed.
The latest version of F5 BIG-IP Next CNF 2.0 makes use of disaggregation to reduce CPU utilization rates by a third, while simultaneously consolidating services to reduce infrastructure costs by more than 60%, the company claims.