Enable Cilium BGP Networking with Bird and FRR in a Vagrant Lab

This guide walks through setting up a simulated Kubernetes cluster with Cilium, configuring BGP using FRR on a router node and Bird on worker nodes, and enabling Cilium's built‑in BGP speaker to achieve cross‑node pod communication and LoadBalancer IP advertisement.

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Enable Cilium BGP Networking with Bird and FRR in a Vagrant Lab

Open Source Linux

Jun 8, 2023 · Operations

Build a BGP EVPN‑Based VXLAN Lab on Linux with FRR

This article explains the different VXLAN control‑plane options, focuses on the BGP EVPN approach, and provides a step‑by‑step Linux lab using FRR to configure VTEP devices, establish route‑reflector sessions, and verify MAC and FDB propagation across the overlay network.

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Build a BGP EVPN‑Based VXLAN Lab on Linux with FRR