F5 BIG-IP

Application delivery controller doing layer 4-7 load balancing on appliance or virtual edition.

Provider: default
Kind: Load balancer
Category: Edge
Official docs: https://techdocs.f5.com/en-us/bigip-14-1-0/big-ip-local-traffic-management-basics-14-1-0/about-pools.html

Properties · 2 set by this component

property	type	values	required	kind default	this component
connectionPreserving · advanced	boolean	—	no	false	inherited
formFactor · component property	enum	appliance \| virtual-edition \| chassis	no	appliance	inherited
global	boolean	—	no	false	inherited
hashing	enum	round-robin \| least-connections \| ecmp \| maglev \| consistent \| random	no	round-robin	▸ round-robin
healthChecks	boolean	—	no	true	inherited
instances	integer	—	no	—	inherited
layer	enum	l4 \| l7	no	l7	inherited
managed	boolean	—	no	false	▸ false
virtualServerType · component property	enum	standard \| performance-l4 \| forwarding-ip \| forwarding-l2 \| stateless	no	standard	inherited

Rules that apply · 0

Every rule whose selector covers this component's kind or its category. Whether a rule fires depends on the design: its properties, its edges and its groups.

No rule reads this kind yet. That is a gap, not a guarantee.

Use it in a design

nodes:
  - { id: "f5-big-ip", component: "f5-big-ip" }

Other Load balancer products · 34

Server Load Balanceralibaba-slbalibabacloudload-balancer AWS Application Load Balanceralbawsload-balancer AWS Classic Load Balanceraws-classic-load-balancerawsload-balancer AWS Global Acceleratoraws-global-acceleratorawsload-balancer AWS Gateway Load Balanceraws-gwlbawsload-balancer AWS Network Load Balancernlbawsload-balancer Azure Application Gatewayazure-application-gatewayazureload-balancer Application Gateway for Containersazure-application-gateway-for-containersazureload-balancer Azure Load Balancerazure-load-balancerazureload-balancer Cloudflare Load Balancingcloudflare-load-balancingcloudflareload-balancer Cloudflare Spectrumcloudflare-spectrumcloudflareload-balancer Apache HTTP Serverapache-httpdload-balancer BFEbfeload-balancer Caddycaddyload-balancer Contourcontourload-balancer Envoyenvoyload-balancer HAProxyhaproxyload-balancer Keepalivedkeepalivedload-balancer Generic load balancerload-balancerload-balancer Load balancerload-balancer-tierload-balancer loxilbloxilbload-balancer MetalLBmetallbload-balancer NGINXnginxload-balancer Traefiktraefikload-balancer DigitalOcean Load Balancersdigitalocean-load-balancerdigitaloceanload-balancer Google Cloud Load Balancinggoogle-cloud-load-balancinggcpload-balancer IBM Cloud Load Balancer for VPCibm-load-balanceribmload-balancer Kubernetes Gatewayk8s-gatewayk8sload-balancer Ingressk8s-ingressk8sload-balancer Servicek8s-servicek8sload-balancer OCI Load Balanceroci-load-balancerociload-balancer Network Load Balanceroci-network-load-balancerociload-balancer OpenStack Octaviaopenstack-octaviaopenstackload-balancer Load Balancer Unit (LBU)outscale-lbuoutscaleload-balancer

Source

1# yaml-language-server: $schema=../../schema/component.schema.json
2# F5 BIG-IP LTM: customer-operated appliance or virtual edition. Per "About Pools" the default load
3# balancing method for a pool is Round Robin; per "About Virtual Servers" Standard is the basic
4# virtual server type, with Performance (Layer 4) using the Fast L4 profile.
5schemaVersion: "1"
6type: "component"
7id: "f5-big-ip"
8kind: "load-balancer"
9provider: "default"
10docs: "https://techdocs.f5.com/en-us/bigip-14-1-0/big-ip-local-traffic-management-basics-14-1-0/about-pools.html"
11defaults:
12  managed: false
13  hashing: "round-robin"
14properties:
15  virtualServerType:
16    type: "enum"
17    values: ["standard", "performance-l4", "forwarding-ip", "forwarding-l2", "stateless"]
18    default: "standard"
19  formFactor:
20    type: "enum"
21    values: ["appliance", "virtual-edition", "chassis"]
22    default: "appliance"

The same page as markdown, for an agent: /catalogue/components/f5-big-ip.md