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.

Cloud Immutability on Metal in the Data Center

Cloud has enabled a create-destroy infrastructure process that is now seen as common, e.g.  launching and destroying virtual machines and containers. This process is referred to as immutable infrastructure and until now, has not been available to operators within a data center. RackN technology is now actively supporting customers in enabling immutability within a data center on physical infrastructure.

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Physical Infrastructure Automation

Automation is not simply taking manual tasks and replacing them with a machine. Rather, it is a methodology to assemble hardware and software infrastructure in a reliable, repeatable way saving time and effort. Automation also provides IT teams with the capability to rapidly meet new business challenges, learn new technologies, and reduce fire drills rather than spending significant cycles manually pushing buttons.

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News

• Open Source
  • Kubernetes graduates to full-pledged, open-source program : ZDNet
  • Open source community crams itself into big tent : TheRegister
• Edge Computing
  • Edge Computing Sharpens Agency Analytics Use : StateTech
• DevOps / SRE
  • DevOps success is about culture, culture, culture : ZDNet
  • Great, we’re going to get DevOps-ed. So, 15 years of planning processes – for the bin? : TheRegister
  • DevOps Futures: SREs, Re-Skilling, and New-Ops : Information Week

RackN

• RackN Trial – 30-day access to RackN technology with support and training from RackN team – Register Today
• NEW YouTube Videos
  • RackN Image Deploy of Linux and Windows (23 Min 12 Sec)
  • Immutable Infrastructure RackN Overview (22 Min 26 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
  • Meetup #12 DHCP and UX Changes for DR v3.7x (31 min 47 sec)
• NEXT WEEK March 13 Community Online Meetup
• 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
• Kong Yang on Golden Age of Cloud, CI/CD and DevOps, and Operator Opportunity – Listen (37 min 44 sec)
• Eric Wright on DevOpsishFullStackishness and Woke IT – Listen (47 min 42 sec)
• Coming Next Week – Yadin Porter de Leon

Social Media

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