F5 NGINX One
A lightweight, high-performance NGINX bundle designed for cloud-native and AI traffic.
Bundles the NGINX Plus data plane, Kubernetes Ingress, Gateway API, F5 WAF for NGINX, and a unified console. Inference-aware traffic routing optimizes AI services.
What Is NGINX One
NGINX is the world's most widely used lightweight, high-performance web server and reverse proxy. F5 NGINX One is a cloud-native package bundling the NGINX Plus data plane, Kubernetes Ingress, Gateway API, F5 WAF for NGINX, and a unified console. Its inference-aware traffic routing dynamically adapts to variable AI request loads, optimizing AI services.
Key Capabilities
Inference-aware traffic routing
Performance and cost optimization based on model, request, and policy
F5 WAF for NGINX
Defends against prompt injection and harmful output
Rate limiting & quotas
Prevents abuse in GPU-constrained environments
Gateway Fabric
Lightweight traffic control based on the Kubernetes Gateway API
Components
| Component | Role |
|---|---|
| NGINX Plus | High-performance data plane (proxy · load balancer) |
| Kubernetes Ingress / Gateway API | Container traffic ingress and control |
| F5 WAF for NGINX | L7 application and LLM traffic security |
| Unified console | Central management and visibility across many NGINX instances |
What It's Used For
AI inference service delivery
Routing that dynamically adapts to variable prompt and compute loads
Cloud-native apps
Lightweight ingress and gateway for Kubernetes microservices
Certified environments such as OpenShift
Operations on certified cloud-native platforms like Red Hat OpenShift