Dutt Dinesh G. BGP in the Data Center

O’Reilly Media, 2017. — 89 p. — ISBN: 978-1-491-98338-6Given the limited scope of a booklet like this, the goals of the book and the assumptions about the audience are critical. The book is
designed for network operators and engineers who are conversant in networking and the basic rudiments of BGP, and who want to
understand how to deploy BGP in the data center. I do not expect any advanced knowledge of BGP’s workings or experience with any
specific router platform.The primary goal of this book is to gather in a single place the theory and practice of deploying BGP in the data center. I cover the
design and effects of a Clos topology on network operations before moving on to discuss how to adapt BGP to the data center. Two
chapters follow where we’ll build out a sample configuration for a two-tier Clos network. The aim of this configuration is to be simple
and automatable. We break new ground in these chapters with ideas such as BGP unnumbered. The book finishes with a discussion of
deploying BGP on servers in order to deal with the buildout of microservices applications and virtual firewall and load balancer services.