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End of Sale Notice:

Commercial support for NGINX Service Mesh is available to customers who currently have active NGINX Microservices Bundle subscriptions. F5 NGINX announced the End of Sale (EoS) for the NGINX Microservices Bundles as of July 1, 2023.

See our End of Sale announcement for more details.

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Supported Platforms

Find out which platforms are supported for use with F5 NGINX Service Mesh.

Persistent Storage

Learn how to set up persistent storage for use with F5 NGINX Service Mesh.

Google Kubernetes Engine

Learn how to set up Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) for use with F5 NGINX Service Mesh.

Kubeadm

Learn how to set up Kubeadm for use with F5 NGINX Service Mesh.

Kubespray

Learn how to set up Kubespray for use with F5 NGINX Service Mesh.

OpenShift

Learn what is different in OpenShift, and the considerations a user must make.

Rancher Kubernetes Engine

Learn how to set up Rancher Kubernetes Engine (RKE) for use with F5 NGINX Service Mesh.

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