High Availability with BGP - Metal Monday

Explore high availability with BGP in this comprehensive video tutorial from Rawkode Academy. Learn about bare metal problems, understand BGP fundamentals, and gain hands-on experience spinning up nginx servers and haproxy/bird servers. Follow along as the instructors demonstrate configuring haproxy for nginx load balancing, enabling BGP, and configuring bird. Discover how Equinix Metal's automated, interconnected bare metal-as-a-service can help digital businesses connect with customers, suppliers, and partners globally. Benefit from the expertise of industry professionals Dan Finneran, David McKay, Jeremy Tanner, and Thom Crowe as they guide you through this 53-minute session on implementing high availability solutions using BGP.

- Holding
- Introductions
- Bare Metal Problems / Plan
- What is BGP?
- Spinning up nginx servers
- Spinning up haproxy/bird servers
- Configuring haproxy to load balance nginx
- Enabling BGP
- Configuring bird