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NGINX Gateway Fabric 2.6.1 is now available.

Follow these instructions to upgrade from 1.x to 2.0.

For 1.x, checkout an older version of documentation.

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Use F5 BIG-IP as an external load balancer

Configure an ExternalLoadBalancer so F5 BIG-IP acts as the external load balancer for an NGINX Gateway Fabric Gateway in a single cluster, preserving client IP addresses with the PROXY protocol.

Distribute traffic across clusters with F5 BIG-IP

Configure an ExternalLoadBalancer so F5 BIG-IP acts as the external load balancer for Gateways in two clusters, terminating and re-encrypting TLS and distributing traffic between them.

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