Customer Edge Ecosystem Support

Published April 5, 2023 | Last modified January 24, 2025

The Customer Edge (CE) is deployed in a customer’s environment and connects to F5 Distributed Cloud. This reference guide provides information on the ecosystems that are supported for CE deployment.

Provider Type	Provider	Automated Deployment	Manual Deployment	Instance Virtualization	Versions and Restrictions
Public Cloud	Amazon Web Services (AWS)	Yes with AWS VPC Site.	Yes with Secure Mesh Site v2.	VM	See Customer Edge Site Sizing Reference for recommended instance types.
Public Cloud	Microsoft Azure	Yes with Azure VNet Site.	Yes with Secure Mesh Site v2.	VM	See Customer Edge Site Sizing Reference for recommended instance types.
Public Cloud	Google Cloud Platform (GCP)	Yes with GPC VPC Site	Yes with Secure Mesh v2 (only for proof-of-concept deployments, not for production). Yes with Secure Mesh v1 for production deployments.	VM	See Customer Edge Site Sizing Reference for recommended instance types.
Public Cloud	Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)	No	Yes with Secure Mesh v2 (only for proof-of-concept deployments, not for production).	VM	See Customer Edge Site Sizing Reference for recommended instance types.
On-Premises	VMware	No	Yes with Secure Mesh v2.	VM	VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi) 7.0 or later.
On-Premises	OpenStack	No	Yes with Secure Mesh v2 (only for proof-of-concept deployments, not for production).	VM	6.3.0
On-Premises	F5 rSeries	No	Yes with Secure Mesh v2 (only for proof-of-concept deployments, not for production).	VM	rSeries: 5k,10k, and 12k F5OS: v1.8.0 or greater
On-Premises	Nutanix AHV	No	Yes with Secure Mesh v2 (only for proof-of-concept deployments, not for production).	VM	AOS: v6.8+
On-Premises	Bare Metal Servers	No	Yes with Secure Mesh v2 (only for proof-of-concept deployments, not for production).	ISO installed on bare metal server.	See supported hardware guide.