ADC automation use cases

Application delivery and security solutions can be time consuming to efficiently set up and manage, especially for full stack engineers and DevOps teams who typically don’t have deep expertise in networking or security. Companies that rely on ADC automation have specific business needs that typically align with one or more of the following use cases:

Infrastructure-as-code approach for repeatable DevOps and CI/CD processes

An intent-based application delivery solution automates your decision making for you while you maintain full control over your environment. By using custom policies to declare your intent— or desired end state— you can take an infrastructure-as-code (IaC) approach to managing application delivery. The result is a sustained, consistent, and repeatable deployment model for application delivery resources that aligns with your DevOps and CI/CD processes.

Operational consistency

Automation is key to operational consistency when deploying ADCs across on-premises and cloud environments. A single pane of glass to manage the configuration of your entire ADC fleet allows you to deploy hardware and software ADCs in one place in the same way. And the infrastructure-as-code approach to ADC configuration eliminates the guesswork and manual tasks that lead to configuration errors.

Consistent configurations across multi-cloud

By automating application delivery tasks, you can also accomplish more work with less effort, enabling rapid deployment and fast replication of changes across multi-cloud environments. Using the same tools and processes across on-premises and cloud lets you simplify application delivery management and reduce the risk of errors.

Consistent security across multi-cloud

Using automation, you can seamlessly apply security policies across your multi-cloud environments to ensure a consistent security posture. And you can centrally maintain and version security policies through a source code management tool like GitHub for a single source of truth.