Announcing General Availability of F5 BIG IP Next for Kubernetes on NVIDIA BlueField 3 DPUs

NVIDIA BlueField-3 DPUs are designed for the most demanding infrastructure workloads, from accelerated AI and 5G wireless networks to hybrid cloud and high-performance computing. The combined solution leverages the F5 Application Delivery and Security Platform to accelerate, secure, and streamline data traffic as it flows in and out of AI infrastructures, greatly improving the efficient processing of large-scale AI workloads. By delivering optimized traffic management, the solution enables greater data ingestion performance and server utilization during AI inferencing, leading to better experiences for users of AI apps.

BIG-IP Next for Kubernetes significantly eases the complexity of integrating multiple elements of enterprise AI infrastructure by unifying networking, security, traffic management, and load balancing functions to provide comprehensive visibility across multicloud environments, with heightened observability for AI workloads. The solution supports critical security features for zero trust architectures, API protection, intrusion prevention, encryption, and certificate management. With general availability, hardware-accelerated distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) mitigation has been added, along with edge firewall capabilities, promoting faster and more efficient cyber protection. The solution also automates the discovery and securing of AI model training and inferencing endpoints, empowering organizations to isolate AI applications from targeted threats while bolstering data integrity and sovereignty.

In addition, the integration of BIG-IP Next for Kubernetes and NVIDIA BlueField-3 DPUs enables a multi-tenant architecture that can securely host multiple users on the same AI clusters, while keeping their AI workloads, data, and traffic separate.