Welcome to the weekly post of the RackN blog recap of all things SRE. If you have any ideas for this recap or would like to include content please contact us at info@rackn.com or tweet Rob (@zehicle) or RackN (@rackngo)

SRE Items of the Week

Image from @lasseoe

What is “Site Reliability Engineering?” 
https://landing.google.com/sre/interview/ben-treynor.html 

In this interview, Ben Treynor shares his thoughts with Niall Murphy about what Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) is, how and why it works so well, and the factors that differentiate SRE from operations teams in industry. READ MORE

Podcast: A Nice Mix of Ansible and Digital Rebar
http://bit.ly/2vkBYEe 

Follow our new L8ist Sh9y Podcast on SoundCloud at https://soundcloud.com/user-410091210.

Digital Rebar Mascot Naming 

Next week the Digital Rebar community will be finalizing the name for our mascot

Several possible names are listed on a recent blog post for your consideration. Please tweet to @DigitalRebar any ideas you have as we will be choosing a name next week via a Twitter poll.

Digital Rebar v3 Provision
http://rebar.digital/

Digital Rebar is the open, fast and simple data center provisioning and control scaffolding designed with a cloud native architecture.

Our extensible stand-alone DHCP/PXE/IPXE service has minimal overhead so it can be installed and provisioning in under 5 minutes on a laptop, RPi or switch. From there, users can add custom or pre-packaged workflows for full life-cycle automation using our API and CLI or a community UX.

A cloud native bare metal approach provides API-driven infrastructure-as-code automation without locking you into a specific hardware platform, operating system or configuration model.

For physical infrastructure provisioning, Digital Rebar replaces Cobbler, Foreman, MaaS or similar with the added bonus of being able to include simple control workflows for RAID, IPMI and BIOS configuration. We also provide event driven actions via websockets API and a simple plug-in model. By design, Digital Rebar is not opinionated about scripting tools so you can mix and match Chef, Puppet, Ansible, SaltStack and even Bash.

Next version: release of v3.1 is anticipated on 9/4/2017.

UPCOMING EVENTS

Rob Hirschfeld and Greg Althaus are preparing for a series of upcoming events where they are speaking or just attending. If you are interested in meeting with them at these events please email info@rackn.com.

• DevOpsDays Dallas – August 29 – 30: Rob Hirschfeld Talk
• OpenDev Conf – Sept 7 – 8 : FAQ
• DevOps Summit – Oct 31 – Nov 2: Rob Hirschfeld Talk
  

OTHER NEWSLETTERS

• SRE Weekly (@SREWeekly) – Issue #85
• The DevOps/WebOps Marketing Geek – LINK from @LukasHertig
• Julie Evans Blog – LINK