Mastering Advanced Juniper Data Centers

Description

Design, Operate, and Scale Advanced EVPN VXLAN Fabrics

Modern data centers are transforming rapidly--driven by AI workloads, cloud-native applications, and increasingly diverse multi-vendor environments. Mastering Advanced Juniper Data Centers is the handson guide for experienced network professionals who need to design, deploy, and scale EVPN VXLAN fabrics built for today's most demanding infrastructures.

This book goes beyond theory. Through clear explanations, packetlevel walkthroughs, and real-world architectural insights, you'll learn how nextgeneration data centers actually work in production. You'll explore advanced topics including multi-tenant data center fabrics and service-chaining, multicast, multivendor EVPN interoperability, Day2 operations with Juniper Apstra, and network infrastructure observability with streaming telemetry using gNMI.

Standout features of this book are its dedicated focus on EVPN interoperability across Cisco, Arista and Juniper network operating systems and advanced multicast designs--topics rarely addressed in traditional networking literature. Whether you're building new infrastructure or optimizing complex fabrics, you'll gain the expertise to deliver scalable, resilient, data center networks.

What You'll Learn:

• Design and deploy multi-tenant EVPN VXLAN fabrics with service-chaining
• Implement multicast in modern EVPN VXLAN networks
• Understand packet flows through handson captures and walkthroughs
• Build and troubleshoot multivendor EVPN fabrics (Juniper, Cisco, Arista)
• Perform Day2 operations with Juniper Apstra
• Deploy modern data center fabrics using Terraform for Juniper Apstra
• Build and deploy an observability stack for streaming telemetry using gNMI

Who This Book Is For:

• Data center network architects
• Senior network and NetOps engineers
• Professionals designing, deploying and implementing modern data centers, working with EVPN VXLAN, Junos OS, or Juniper Apstra

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Sample Content

Table of Contents

Introduction xiii

Chapter 1. Inter-VRF Routing in EVPN VXLAN Fabrics 1

Revisiting an EVPN VXLAN Fabric      1

Building a Multi-tenant EVPN VXLAN Fabric with Inter-VRF Routing on a Firewall    15

Inter-VRF Routing with Route Leaking and Type-5 VXLAN Tunnels to the Firewall      56

High Availability and Juniper SRX Firewalls 118

Summary      145

Chapter 2. Intra-subnet Multicast 147

Revisiting a Layer 2 EVPN VXLAN Fabric      147

Default Intra-subnet Multicast Behavior      161

Intra-VLAN Multicast with Assisted Replication      168

Intra-VLAN Multicast with IGMP Snooping and Selective Multicast Forwarding      195

Summary      227

Chapter 3. Inter-subnet Multicast 229

Inter-subnet Multicast with External Multicast Router and Sources      229

Inter-subnet Multicast with Centralized Routing      251

Optimized Inter-subnet Multicast      280

Summary      334

Chapter 4. Interoperability with Cisco NXOS in EVPN VXLAN Fabrics.. 335

A Primer on Cisco NXOS EVPN VXLAN      336

NXOS and Junos Interoperability      365

NXOS and Junos Interoperability with Juniper Apstra      455

Summary      465

Chapter 5. Interoperability with Arista EOS in EVPN VXLAN Fabrics 467

A Primer on Arista EOS EVPN VXLAN      467

Arista EOS and Juniper Junos Interoperability      509

Summary      591

Chapter 6. Juniper Apstra Day 2 Operations, Apstra Freeform, Apstra Automation with Terraform, and Model-Driven Telemetry593

Apstra Freeform      593

Juniper Apstra Day 2 Operations      625

Getting Started with Terraform for Juniper Apstra      649

Getting Started with Model-Driven Telemetry: Building Your Own Telemetry Stack with gNMIc, Prometheus, and Grafana      687

Summary      715

Index 717

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