© The Author(s), under exclusive license to APress Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2023
J. JanovicCisco ACI: Zero to Herohttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-8838-2_4

4. ACI Fundamentals: Access Policies

Jan Janovic1  
(1)
Prague, Czech Republic
 

ACI, due to its application-centric philosophy and multi-tenancy, differentiates between the common physical underlay network consisting of leaf/spine switches and the logical network model describing tenant application policies and the logical network configuration (VRFs, BDs, EPGs, etc.). In this chapter, you will look closer at underlay access policies, the first and very important configuration aspect to ensure end host connectivity.

Access policies are a group of universal configuration objects associated ...

Get Cisco ACI: Zero to Hero: A Comprehensive Guide to Cisco ACI Design, Implementation, Operation, and Troubleshooting now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.