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

Digital Rebar Provision Announces v3.8.0 – Workflows

Workflows are a first-class element of the system now. They have their own API endpoint and machine object field. They simplify all the MATH that used to be in the change-stage/map.

Key Features in the Release:

• Workflows
  • Create Workflow object that replaces change-stage/map method for changing stages on machines
  • Maintain backwards compatibility with the change-stage/map system.
  • Update Machine object to have workflow as first-class field
  • Update Validations to properly control workflow states.
  • Allow events to be publish but not propagated. This allows for local log file logging of events without loops.
  • Add Windows-based drpcli to drp
  • More…

News

• Open Source
  • Pivotal Software IPO: Successful Offering May Trigger More Open Source Software IPOs : Sharespost
  • OSI’s Simon Phipps on Open Source’s Past and Future : Linux Journal
• Edge Computing
  • Edge computing, cloud data centers drive decentralized IT : TechTarget
  • What Investors Need to Know about Edge Computing : Data | Economy
• DevOps / SRE
  • Database DevOps, it’s now ‘a thing’ : Computer Weekly
  • DevOps success: Why continuous is a key word : Enterprisers Project

RackN

• RackN Trial – 30-day access to RackN technology with support and training from RackN team – Register Today
• NEW YouTube Videos
  • Digital Rebar Provision v3.8 Workflows – Listen (17 min 51 sec)
  • Terraform Digital Rebar Provider with Workflows – Listen (11 min 49 sec)
• April Events
  • InteropITX (April 30 – May 4)
    • Immutable Deployments: Taking Physical Infrastructure from Automation to Autonomy: May 2, 3:00pm
    • DevOps vs SRE vs Cloud Native: May 2, 1:00pm
    • From What to How: Getting Started and Making Progress with DevOps: May 3, 1:00pm

Digital Rebar Community 

• Join Community Online Meetup
  • Digital Rebar Provision Meetup #15 (55 min 21 sec)
• NEXT MEETUP April 24 Community Online Meetup
• Digital Rebar Provision 8.0 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
• Erica Windisch, Founder/CTO at IOpipe – Listen (40 min 44 sec)
• Justin Garrison, Co-Author of Cloud Native Infrastructure – Listen (45 min 03 sec)
• Coming Next Week – John Willis, VP DevOps and Digital Practices, SJ Technologies

Social Media

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