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High Availability with BGP

2020-11-17

Equinix Metal™ is an automated, interconnected, low-latency bare metal-as-a-service, that is available in global locations across Platform Equinix®. We enable digital businesses to more quickly be at the center of the customers, suppliers, and partners with whom they want to connect.

🕰 Timeline

00:00 - Holding
00:35 - Introductions
01:30 - Bare Metal Problems / Plan
02:40 - What is BGP?
06:50 - Spinning up nginx servers
09:45 - Spinning up haproxy/bird servers
15:20 - Configuring haproxy to load balance nginx
24:00 - Enabling BGP
27:50 - Configuring bird

🌎 Resources

Equinix Metal - https://metal.equinix.com
Dan Finneran - https://twitter.com/thebsdbox
David McKay - https://twitter.com/rawkode
Jeremy Tanner - https://twitter.com/penguin
Thom Crowe - https://twitter.com/thomcrowe