12.5. Controllers

Some zone types need an external controller to manage the VNet control-plane. Currently this is only required for the bgp-evpn zone plugin.

For BGP-EVPN, we need a controller to manage the control plane. The currently supported software controller is the "frr" router. You may need to install it on each node where you want to deploy EVPN zones.

apt install frr frr-pythontools

Configuration options:

The bgp controller is not used directly by a zone. You can used it to configure frr to manage bgp peers.

For BGP-evpn, it can be use to define a different ASN by node, so doing EBGP.

Configuration options: