The latest mantra in IT is to cleanly abstract away everything including hardware, software, management, processes, etc. Take “serverless” for example – there are still servers involved but much more hidden than before.  This abstraction obsession is rapidly changing the way that applications and services are developed and delivered.

However, the underlying abstractions hide, not remove infrastructure; it is still there and, like plumbing, simply becomes someone else’s problem to deal with. At RackN, we are focused on solving these hidden plumbing problems at the physical infrastructure operations layer.

Working with physical hardware is viewed as messy and is not going to be a trending hashtag anytime soon. We are ok with that. In fact, we view ourselves as Internet Plumbers keeping the “pipes” open without any hesitancy of getting dirty.

Part of our mission is to standardize the processes in physical ops to provide site reliability engineers and DevOps teams with an automated, open, secure, scalable, and reliable solution. Our solution is built not only for today’s needs but also the coming Edge computing revolution whereby physical ops will move from hundreds of nodes to hundreds of thousands of endpoints.

We offer several methods to being immediately working with our technology:

• Digital Rebar Provision– Our open source DHCP/PXE/IPXE service with community or corporate plug-ins for additional features
• RackN Trial – Get access to our solution built on Digital Rebar Provision; contact RackN sales

Based on a prior Rob Hirschfeld Post Physical Ops = Plumbers of the Internet. Celebrating dirty IT jobs 8 bit style