Intent Framework Performance
● Intents are high-level, network-level policy definitions
○ e.g. provide connectivity between two hosts, or
route all traffic that matches this prefix to this edge port
● All objects are distributed for high availability
○ Synchronously written to at least one other node
○ Work is divided among all instances in the cluster
● Intents must be compiled into device-specific rules
○ Paths are computed and selected, reservations made, etc.
● Device-specific rules are installed
○ Leveraging other asynchronous subsystems (e.g. Flow Rule Service)
● Intents react to network events ("reroute")
○ e.g. device or link failure, host movement, etc.