In Vancouver, I sat down with Scott Sanchez (EMC) and Jeff Dickey (Redapt) for a NextCast discussion. We covered a lot of my favorite subjects including DefCore and Ready State bare metal operations. One of the things I liked about this … Continue reading
Cloud APIs are about abstracting operations to simplify deployment. We want users of our cloud infrastructure to operate with blissful unawareness of the underlying networking topology, storage configuration and physical infrastructure. For their perspective, the cloud is perfectly elastic, totally … Continue reading
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The RackN team did not plan to replace Cobbler, we just needed something that responded to our need for full-cycle cross-platform DevOps automation. Provisioning an O/S is never enough! You need to coordinate a lot…
The RackN team did not plan to replace Cobbler, we just needed something that responded to our need for full-cycle cross-platform DevOps automation. Provisioning an O/S is never enough! You need to coordinate a lot of operational activity to deploy … Continue reading
As part of our exploration of containers on metal, the RackN team has created a workload on top of OpenCrowbar as the foundation for a Docker Swarm on bare metal cluster. This provides a second more integrated and automated path … Continue reading
I released “VMS ARE DEAD” this post two weeks ago on DevOps.com. My point here is that Ops Automation (aka DevOps) is FINALLY growing beyond Cloud APIs and VMs. This creates a much richer ecosystem of deployment targets instead of … Continue reading
Last Wednesday (3/11/15), I had the privilege of talking with the vBrownBag crowd about Functional Ops and bare metal deployment. In this hour, I talk about how functional operations (FuncOps) works as an extension of ready state. FuncOps is a … Continue reading
Welcome to the RackN and Digital Rebar Weekly Review. You will find the latest news related to Edge, DevOps, SRE and other relevant topics. Had Enough Virtualization Overheard? Time to Think Bare Metal Software Defined Infrastructure (SDx) allows operators to … Continue reading
One of IBM’s major announcements at Think 2018 was Managed Kubernetes on Bare Metal. This new offering combines elements of their existing offerings to expose some additional security, attestation and performance isolation. Bare metal has been a hot topic for … Continue reading
Welcome to our new format for the RackN and Digital Rebar Weekly Review. It contains the same great information you are accustomed to; however, I have reorganized it to place a new section at the start with my thoughts on … Continue reading
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