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Deployment of a multi vendor EVPN based data center fabric using Netbox and Ansible
2024-11-18 , Auditorium

This year we deployed a new data center fabric from scratch. A requirement was to use different vendors with different nos. In addition we use Ansible for the whole configuration.

This talk is about:
- how to efficiently use Netbox with Ansible
- using Ansible with multi vendor equipment
- challenges building a multi vendor EVPN fabric from scratch

See also: slides (3.3 MB)

As CTO of UPONU I am responsible for the whole technical data center and core network stack.

I am interested in internet routing, IPv6, SRv6 and data center networking.