Welcome to the RackN and Digital Rebar Weekly Review. You will find the latest news related to Edge, DevOps, SRE and other relevant topics.

Deploy and Test Digital Rebar Provision with No Infrastructure in 10 Minutes

For operators looking to better understand Digital Rebar Provision (DRP) RackN has developed an easy to follow process leveraging Packet.net for physical device creation. This process allows new users to create a physical DRP endpoint and then provision a new physical node on Packet. Information and code to run this guide is available at https://github.com/digitalrebar/provision/tree/master/examples/pkt-demo.

In this blog, I will take the reader through the process with images based on running via my Mac.

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Site Reliability Engineering: 4 Things to Know

Organizations that have embraced DevOps and cloud-native architecture might also want to investigate SRE. Interop ITX expert Rob Hirschfeld explains why.

To find out more about site reliability engineering, Network Computing spoke with Rob Hirschfeld, who has been in the cloud and infrastructure space for nearly 15 years, including work with early ESX betas and serving on the Open Stack Foundation Board. Hirschfeld, cofounder and CEO of RackN, will present “DevOps vs SRE vs Cloud Native” at Interop ITX 2018.

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News

• Open Source
  • Why Open Source & Hardware Integration Can Work for Service Providers : Light Reading
  • Time for “Open Innovation,” Not Just Open Source : EE Times
• DevOps / SRE
  • From Measurement to Insight: Put DevOps Metrics to Work : Information Week
  • Take DevOps to 11 and Sprinkle Cloud on it with Rainbows and Unicorns : InfoQ

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
  • 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
  • Digital Rebar Community Online Meetup #13 (55 min 08 sec)
• NEXT MEETUP March 27 Community Online Meetup
• Digital Rebar Provision 7.3 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
• Yadin Porter de León on critical open source community failings – Listen (43 min 25 sec)
• Kong Yang on Golden Age of Cloud, CI/CD and DevOps, and Operator Opportunity – Listen (37 min 44 sec)
• Coming Next Week – Oliver Gould, CTO Buoyant

Social Media

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