Bird2 autogenerated peering and transit configs

by pimvanpelt 2 years ago

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Super draft sneak peek at the IPng Networks automation to maintain the peering and transit sessions in our network. Human error is the #1 cause of outages, so we’re investing in a Python/Jinja2 and PeeringDB based approach for all of our BGP and OSPF configuration snippets.

We run DANOS (a DPDK enabled dataplane) with Bird2 on top.

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