Intent-based orchestration of routing controls across a network overlay

A system comprising:

• one or more processors;
• and
• one or more computer-readable media storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations comprising:
• receiving, from a network administrator, user intent data indicative of behavioral-level routing preferences for configuring local settings of a plurality of edge devices within a software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) to exhibit a particular routing behavior, the user intent data being free of per-device routing configuration data;
• translating the user intent data into routing control settings for configuring the plurality of edge devices to exhibit the particular routing behavior;
• identifying a connection to an edge device of the plurality of edge devices;
• determining, based on identifying the connection to the edge device, a routing control setting of the routing control settings to apply to the edge device, wherein the routing control setting configures the edge device to make local routing decisions in accordance with the particular routing behavior;
• and
• sending the routing control setting to the edge device.

One or more non-transitory computer-readable media maintaining instructions that, when executed by one or more processors, program the one or more processors to perform operations comprising:

• receiving user intent data indicative of behavioral-level routing preferences for configuring local settings of one or more edge devices within a network to exhibit a particular routing behavior, the user intent data being free of per-device routing configuration data;
• generating, based on the user intent data, routing control settings for configuring the plurality of edge devices to exhibit the particular routing behavior;
• identifying a connection to an edge device of the plurality of edge devices;
• determining, based on identifying the connection to the edge device, a routing control setting of the routing control settings to apply to the edge device, wherein the routing control setting configures the edge device to make local routing decisions in accordance with the particular routing behavior;
• and
• sending the routing control setting to the edge device.