☂️ MEP-19 Zone Awareness #268
Description
Description
In metal-stack, the concepts of regions and zones are currently represented implicitly through partition names rather than as dedicated API entities. This design uses naming conventions to encode both region and zone information within a partition identifier. For example, the partition name fra_eqx_01 translates to Frankfurt (region), Equinix (zone), and 01 (partition).
From a networking perspective, traffic between private node networks is not routed between partitions. To prevent misconfiguration, private networks are derived from partition-scoped supernetworks, preventing private node networks to be used across different partitions. Only external networks such as the Internet or Datacenter Interconnect (DCI) connections can be used to route traffic between partitions.