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

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.

> 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 :)




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