Citrix ADC CPX data sheet
Bring the power of advanced Layer 4 to Layer 7 application delivery services to containerized micro-services infrastructures
CPX is Citrix ADC in a container form factor. It is built from the same code base as the Citrix ADC and is packaged as a Docker container. CPX joins Citrix ADC VPX, MPX, and SDX in providing a cloud-ready ADC with a consistent set of ADC services to application developers and network operations teams unified through a single API, management console and policies that can run on premise and in the cloud. It is a designed to be inserted early in the application development process to ease deployment of applications into production. CPX is managed by Citrix Application Delivery Management, an orchestration, automation, visualization and analytics platform that abstracts L4-L7 platforms into a set of resources that enables agile application delivery. Through Citrix Application Delivery Management, CPX interfaces with container management systems and auto-configures based on dynamic changes in the microservices infrastructure.
Citrix ADC CPX provides the Citrix ADC web and application load balancing, acceleration, security and offload feature set in a simple, easy-to-install container. Enterprises, cloud and eBiz service providers can deploy Citrix ADC CPX in Docker containers managed by popular container management systems.
Deploying applications can be time consuming, complex and costly. Applications need to be continually iterated, built and deployed. DevOps professionals using containers to speed up delivery and shipment of applications will benefit from CPX to insert load balancing early in the development cycle to accelerate delivery of applications to production.