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 various topics. You can still find the latest news items related to Edge, DevOps and other relevant topics below.

Common Customer Challenges in Infrastructure Automation

RackN was started to solve the challenges faced in provisioning today’s heterogeneous IT environments with bare metal, containers, VMs, and in the future edge. Here are some common issues we are solving for today:

• How can I eliminate manual, repetitive tasks that often lead to mistakes?
• How can I merge my 15 different custom provisioning tools to 1 solution?
• How can leave Cobbler and move to a modern solution without disrupting my servers?
• How can I run my data center operationally like a cloud provider?
• How can I manage a heterogeneous environment without customization for each component?
• How can I reliably patch my software and hardware to upgrade security without significant downtown?

If these issues sound familiar to you, it’s time to learn more about RackN and how we are automating infrastructure with physical operations solutions. Contact us or visit www.rackn.com.

RackN Monthly Newsletter

We distribute a monthly email newsletter on the 2^nd Monday every month focused on a common customer issue. This month’s topic is Cobbler replacement. See it here.

News

• Edge Computing
  • Deutsche Telekom sets up US lab for edge computing trials with 5G : Capacity Media
  • Why 5G is bringing edge computing and automation front and center: Network World
  • OpenStack: Open source community collaboration needed to overcome edge computing adoption barriers : ComputerWeekly.com
• DevOps
  • DevOps, Containers and CD: What happens when theory is put to the test? : The Register
  • It’s never too late to join the DevOps integration race : Information Age
  • From DevOps to DevSecOps: Structuring Communication for Better Security : DARK Reading

RackN

• RackN talks Cloud Native Landscape on Rishidot.TV – Watch (4:07 Sec)
• RackN Trial – 30-day access to RackN technology with support and training from RackN team – Register Today
• NEW YouTube Videos from Rob Hirschfeld, CEO/Co-Founder RackN
  • RackN take on Edge Computing: All about Scale and Automation (1:01 Sec)
  • Building Bridges Between Operators, Developers, and Architects (1:44 Sec)
  • Even Serverless needs Metal: Ops at the Physical Later (1:53 Sec)
  • A Better Way to Automate your Infrastructure (1:09 Sec)
• February Events
  • Container World (Feb 26 – 28) in Santa Clara, CA
• • • Panel: Do it like a Hyperscaler: Engineering Containers for Security and Hostile Multi-Tenancy: Feb 28, 11:20am
    • Avoiding Infrastructure at Rest – the Power of Immutable Containers: Feb 28, 1:50pm

Digital Rebar Community

• February 13, 2018 Community Online Meetup – Recording
• Join Community Online Meetup
• Attend February 27, 2017 Community Online Meetup – Register Here
• NEW YouTube Videos Related to Digital Rebar
  • Value of Digital Rebar Community to Customers and RackN (0:54 Sec)
  • A Modern Provisioning Solution is Finally Here (1:10 Sec)

L8ist Sh9y Podcast

• Get to Know the L8ist Sh9y Podcast: Why of Technology not just the What (0:46 Sec)
• SoundCloud Home Page of L8ist Sh9y
• NEW Gina Rosenthal (Minks) on Ops Challenges, Day 2 Ops Support & DevOps Communications – Listen (51:29 Sec)
• Paul Teich on Enterprise Security, Hardware Issues at Edge, Augmented Reality and 5G – Listen (52:57 Sec)
• Coming Next Week – Nic Jackson on HashiCorp Product Philosophy in Open Source and Feature Minimization

Social Media

• LinkedIn – RackN Page
• Twitter –  @RackNgo / @DigitalRebar / @L8istSh9y
• YouTube – RackN & Digital Rebar
• SlideShare – RackN
• GitHub – RackN / DigitalRebar