This document discusses the features supported by an application delivery controller (ADC) including availability, performance, security, programmability, other services, multi-cloud, operations, and DevOps automation capabilities. Key supported features are software and hardware load balancing, global server load balancing, persistence, active/passive and elastic high availability, compression, caching, TCP optimizations, autoscaling, hardware acceleration, DDoS protection, SSL offloading, WAF, DNS, IPAM, on-premises and public cloud platforms, container orchestrators, multi-tenancy with RBAC, insights, non-disruptive upgrades, Avi Pulse services, and automation.

1. Topic Use Case Feature Supported
Application Delivery
Availability
Application
 SLB
 GSLB
 Persistence
ADC
 Active/Passive
 Elastic HA
YES
Performance
Application
 Compression, Caching
 TCP Optimizations
ADC
 Autoscale
 Hardware assisted
YES
Security
Network
DDoS
SSL
HTTP
iWAF
YES
Programmability
Traffic management
Data plane
Control plane
YES
Other Services
DNS
IPAM
YES
Multi-Cloud
Private
VMware | NSX-T | VCF
Openstack
YES
Public
AWS | VMC
Azure
GCP
YES
Container
Kubernetes
Openshift
AKS, EKS, GKE
Tanzu
YES
Operations
Multi-tenancy Multi-tenancy with granular RBAC YES
Visibility Actionable insights YES
Upgrades Flexible non disruptive upgrades YES
Services Avi Pulse YES
DevOps Automation YES