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.

Building Bridges between Operators, Developers and Architects

DevOps is not enough. Infrastructure architects play a key role and are often not considered. It is our experience that bringing the architect together with DevOps team leads to the optimal solution. Hear from Rob Hirschfeld on why this is critical for success:

Redefining PXE Provisioning for the Modern Data Center

Over the past 20 years, Linux admins have defined provisioning with a limited scope; PXE boot with Cobbler. This approach continues to be popular today even though it only installs an operating system limiting the operators’ ability to move beyond this outdated paradigm.

Digital Rebar is the answer operators have been looking for as provisioning has taken on a new role within the data center to include workflow management, infrastructure automation, bare metal, virtual machines inside and outside the firewall as well as the coming need for edge IoT management.

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News

• Infrastructure
  • Understanding Dropbox’s Infrastructure Strategy : The Motley Fool
  • A look at how ServiceNow is managing 85,000 databases with 25 billion queries per hour : diginomica
  • Bare-metal cloud services lure legacy workloads off premises : TechTarget
• Edge Computing
  • Edge computing won’t kill the cloud, say analysts: siliconANGLE
• DevOps
  • With help from DevOps, IoT initiatives get off the ground : IoT Agenda
  • No roadmap? Become your team’s DevOps specialist: TechTarget DevOps Agenda

RackN

• 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)
• March Events
  • Data Center World (March 12 – 15) in San Antonio, TX
    • Operate your Data Center like a Public Cloud with Immutable Infrastructure (March 12, 2:10pm)
  • SRECon Americas (March 27 – 29) in Santa Clara, CA
    • Don’t Ever Change! Are Immutable Deployments Really Simpler, Faster and Safer? (March 28, 1:35pm)
    • RackN Booth is West Lobby WL2

Digital Rebar Community

• NEW Digital Rebar Training Videos
  • Install Digital Rebar v3.7 on Packet.net (25 min 38 sec)
  • Digital Rebar Content Create Training (22 min 40 sec)
• Join Community Online Meetup
• February 27, 2017 Community Online Meetup – Video Recording
• Digital Rebar Provision 7.1 Release Notes

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
• Eric Wright on DevOpsishFullStackishness and Woke IT – Listen (47 min 42 sec)
• Nic Jackson on HashiCorp Product Philosophy in Open Source and Feature Minimization – Listen (46 min 44 sec)
• Coming Next Week – Kong Yang, SolarWinds

Social Media

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