Speakers
Description
Matt "Grizz" Griswold and Chris Grundemann are both IX founders, internetworking experts, and automation proponents. With around 4 decades of combined experience they are now turning to sharing what they've learned about automating BGP and interconnection through a set of open source tools, along with support and services for those that need it.
This talk will share what they have learned both from personal experience as well as through dozens of recent interviews with IX operators and interconnection engineers over the past several months. Including common challenges and best practices.
The highlight of the talk will be announcing and describing two open source automation tools built to make interconnection and BGP easier for everyone. One is ixCtl, which is built to automate the most common and problematic tasks involved in running an internet exchange point, particularly configuring and managing secure route servers. The other is PeerCtl, which is built to automate the most common and problematic tasks involved in interconnecting an AS; from bilateral and multilateral peering to PNI and also transit connections.
Code for both (along with several other tools) is available on GitHub: https://github.com/fullctl
