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Episode: EVPN for the rest of us – what happens when software people try to use EVPN (denog17)
Description: Last year we migrated our datacentre networks from a flat layer 2-based architecture to EVPN-VXLAN. As an organisation whose primary technical background is in software, a network project of this complexity has been a journey into new and uncharted territory.
Our previous network design had been showing signs of reaching its limits for several years, so in late 2023 we started designing a replacement based on EVPN-VXLAN, terminated directly on our Linux hypervisors. After not quite nine months of development the project culminated in an intensive week-long migration in our production datacentre – with zero downtime for our customers.
In this talk I...