[__turbobrew__]

BGP based routing is a major pain in the ass to do on-prem. If you want true HA in the datacenter you are going to need to utilize BGP.

[esseph]

I mean, BGP EVPN is the datacenter standard. (Linux infra / k8s / networking guy)

[__turbobrew__]

There are standards but actually designing a sane network architecture, buying all of the correct network hardware, and configuring all of the software to properly use that hardware is hard. At my company we have a team of about 20 people whose job it is to just design, install, and run the network.

[esseph]

> There are standards but actually designing a sane network architecture, buying all of the correct network hardware, and configuring all of the software to properly use that hardware is hard. At my company we have a team of about 20 people whose job it is to just design, install, and run the network.

Network engineers do network engineering :)