Depending on your BIG-IP VE license, you may deploy some or all of the following services:

BIG-IP LTM - Optimize app availability and user experience with intelligent L4-L7 load balancing, SSL/TLS offloading and visibility, and programmatic traffic manipulation with F5 iRules.

BIG-IP DNS - Direct globally distributed users to the closest or best performing app servers with global server load balancing and high-performance DNS services.

BIG-IP AFM - Mitigate resource and network crippling attacks with multi-layered DDoS protection and network security.

BIG-IP APM - Provide secure, anytime, anywhere access with application authentication (SAML, OAuth & OIDC), authorization and end-point inspection, as well as SSL VPN, Single-Sign-On (SSO) and Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA).

BIG-IP ASM - Web application firewall (WAF) that secures apps against advanced threats including L7 DoS, malicious bots and all OWASP top 10 attacks. Ensures regulatory compliance with PCI-DSS, HIPAA, FIPS 140-2 and more.

F5 Advanced WAF - Provides all BIG-IP ASM capabilities as well as bot mitigation for mobile apps, API protection, credential theft/abuse protection and behavioral analytics.

BIG-IP VE's with 2 boot locations can be upgraded in-place, instead of 'nuking and paving' - as is required with 1 boot location instances.

Combining BIG-IP VE with F5 Container Ingress Services (free & open-source) delivers advanced application services to container environments including Kubernetes.

Additionally, F5 has made it faster and easier to deploy and configure BIG-IP VE via the following mechanisms that can be integrated with all common automation and CI/CD tools:

• F5 Automation Toolchain
• CloudFormation Templates
• Quick Start Guide