Automate your IX’s RS Config
summary
Generates Bird or OpenBGPD configs from Arouteserver, pulling peers from PeeringDB and supporting RPKI validation, BGP communities and graceful shutdown. Configuration is produced locally, pushed with Ansible to containers, and two route servers rewrite configs on an hourly cron with 30-minute stagger so one regenerates at minute 0 and the other at minute 30. It halts on errors, handles per-peer export filters, and is running in production at BharatIX.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Start
- 2:08Quick intro to peering at IXP
- 3:04What a route server does...
- 5:41The Challenge
- 7:31Setting up arouteserver
- 8:16clients.yml
- 9:24Generating RS Config
- 10:31BGP Community Support
- 13:36Other key features worth mentioning
- 16:33References
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