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by iov6throwaway 167 days ago
I ran network team at an organization with hundreds of thousands hardware hosts in tens-of-megawatts large data centers, millions of VMs and containers, links between data centers, links to ISPs and IXes. We ran out of RFC1918 addresses at around 2011-2012 and went IPv6-only. IPv4 is delivered as a service to nodes requiring it via an overlay network. We intentionally simplified network design by doing so.

This is neither hard nor expensive.

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This is one of the only scenarios in which it’s actually easy.
different environments. for us at this point of time it will be expensive without added benefit.