Build AI data center fabrics from design intent
Blog post from OpsMill
An AI data center fabric is a complex network design comprising numerous switches, interfaces, and topological layers, which requires consistent addressing across pods and racks. The goal for AI infrastructure providers is to bring the fabric online quickly to accelerate revenue, relying on a repeatable delivery model to expand capacity without scaling engineering efforts proportionally. Design-driven automation, facilitated by Infrahub, manages the fabric through its lifecycle by storing design and implementation as structured, versioned data, which allows for generating, validating, and merging changes while keeping the context of the generated infrastructure. Infrahub's open-source AI Data Center reference solution provides a practical approach to model and deploy an AI data center fabric using structured design intent and modular Generators, which translate design into technical implementation. This approach supports initial builds and day-two changes without requiring separate processes for expansion, enabling multi-site delivery with consistent standards across sites. The reference solution offers pre-built schemas, modular Generators, and configuration templates for Cisco, Arista, and Dell, allowing users to evaluate or adapt the project to their specific needs, thereby demonstrating how structured design, modular generation, and controlled change can work together in AI data center workflows.
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