Rene Cardona - The Fast-Track Guide to VXLAN BGP EVPN Fabrics Implement Todays Multi-Tenant Software-Defined Networks

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You want to learn, deploy, and support VXLAN BGP EVPN, right? This book provides the information to help you accomplish this. I have written this book to save you time and effort and avoid researching vendors technical documentation to get all the details. You go from zero to hero by learning the foundational concepts of VXLAN and why you should adopt it. We then move forward into the underlay and what role it covers in a VXLAN BGP EVPN fabric. Then we move to the overlay aspects.

The cool thing about this book is that you learn the technology in laymans terms. The information has been redacted in a way that is easy to comprehend and fast to apply. I include all relevant configuration commands to make your engineering life easier. I wrote this book with you in mind because I know what it is like to have limited time to meet a deadline and deliver a solution. You do not have time to scroll through pages and pages of knowledge articles to learn VXLAN.

This book is all you need to become proficient in supporting VXLAN BGP EVPN. In every chapter that I configured and tested my configurations, I strongly encourage you to do the same. A great way to simulate a VXLAN environment is through a simulator platform called EVE-NG. With EVE-NG, you can lab most recognized vendor-centric VXLAN solutions. Cisco Nexus, Arista, and Juniper can be simulated with this application.

I strongly recommend that you read and study the book and practice the labs as we go through the chapters. That way, you solidify the concepts, and it is easier to understand each chapter as you go along. There is nothing else out there better than practice to make you proficient or an expert. Practice makes perfect!

I hope you enjoy the book.

This book would not have happened if Aditee Mirashi did not give me the chance to shine. Thank you, Aditee, for believing in me and for your assistance and support during this journey.

Matthew Moodie, thanks for your help on this project. Your assistance was extremely important.

Hameed Alshamaa, I cannot thank you enough for your support during the project. Your input was very important for this work to be a total success. Thanks, buddy. I know you are a doer, do not quit.

To everyone that has always encouraged me to reach out for more, this is proof that Im going forward, and I will not quit until I reach all my life goals. A key ingredient for success is passion. If you do not have the passion for what you do, you will not be successful. Do not quit your dreams. Life is only once.