Patent ID: 11902160
Assignee: JUNIPER NETWORKS, INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 12:
13. A method comprising:
receiving, with a secondary container network interface (CNI) associated with a containerized virtual network router deployed to a host server of a data center, data specifying a high-level intent for an ethernet virtual private network (EVPN) encapsulation/decapsulation data path for a containerized user-level application, the containerized user-level application to be deployed on a host computing device by a data center orchestration engine of the data center,
translating, with executable instructions of the secondary CNI, the data specifying the high-level intent into configuration data for the EVPN encapsulation/decapsulation data path, and
dynamically setting up the EVPN encapsulation/decapsulation data path with the executable instructions of the secondary CNI to provide a network connection between the containerized user-level application to be deployed and a desired bridge domain within a data plane of the containerized virtual network router for the EVPN encapsulation/decapsulation data path,
wherein the containerized virtual network router comprises a containerized routing protocol process configured to operate as a control plane for the containerized virtual network router and configured to program the data plane of the containerized virtual network router for the EVPN encapsulation/decapsulation data path.