Systems and methods for topology discovery and application in a border gateway protocol based data center

An information handling system comprising:

• a network orchestration service running on a computer processor, the network orchestration service providing a Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) listener module and a topology builder module;
• a plurality of spine devices configured as an autonomous system, the BGP listener module being able to listen to BGP information received by the plurality of spine devices;
• and
• a plurality of leaf devices coupled to the plurality of spine devices and to a plurality of switches, the plurality of switches also being coupled to a plurality of servers.

A method for providing topology discovery and associated services in a plurality of networked devices running a Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) in a data center, the method comprising:

• detecting a plurality of BGP update packets being exchanged by a plurality of networked devices configured as a plurality of autonomous systems within the data center;
• extracting information from the plurality of BGP update packets;
• and
• computing the extracted information to create a topology of the plurality of networked devices in the data center.