F5 BIG-IP CNE architecture

F5 BIG-IP Cloud-Native Edition

This diagram shows the main parts of F5 BIG-IP Cloud-Native Edition:

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Parts of F5 BIG-IP Cloud-Native Edition

F5 BIG-IP Cloud-Native Edition consists of the following parts:

Part

Description

CNE core

A set of cluster-wide control-plane and data-plane-supporting components that all CNE instances depend on

CNE instance

The underlying data-plane component—the F5 Traffic Management Microkernel (TMM) workload—and control-plane components for an F5 BIG-IP Cloud-Native Edition product. After installing a CNE instance, you create custom resources to configure it as a working instance of an F5 BIG-IP Cloud-Native Edition product.