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

Mobilize your Ops Team Against Operational Paralysis  

Many IT departments struggle with keeping “the lights on” as legacy hardware and software consume significant resources preventing the team from taking advantage of new technologies to modernize their infrastructure. These legacy issues not only consume resources but also cause challenges to find qualified experts to keep them operational as the older the technology the less likely to find experienced support.

Freezing older technology in place without capable support or an understanding of how the product works is certainly not an industry best practice; however, it is commonly accepted in many large IT organizations. RackN has built a single, open source platform to manage not just new technologies but also legacy services allowing IT teams to actively engage the older technology without fear.

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News

• Open Source
  • Test yourself on open networking vs SDN, open source: TechTarget
• Edge Computing
  • Edge Computing New Breakthrough Bridges the “Last Mile” for Industrial Internet: Markets Insider
  • One the edge of IoT as 5G comes of adolescence: IDG Connect
• DevOps / SRE
  • A proper DevOps feedback loop includes business leaders: TechTarget
  • Bridge the DevSecOps Experience Divide with Cross-Functional Teams: DevOps.com

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
  • May Events
    • GlueCon (May 16 – 17)
      • Making Bare Metal Go Cloud Native: The Power of Immutable Deploys: May 16, 2:50pm
    • OpenStack Summit Vancouver (May 21 – 24)
      • Security Considerations for Cloud Edge Computing: May 23, 11:50am
      • Avoiding Infrastructure at Rest – the Power of Immutable Infrastructure: May 23, 3:10pm

Digital Rebar Community

• Join Community Online Meetup
• Digital Rebar Provision Meetup #16 (38 min 55 sec)
• NEXT MEETUP May 8 Community Online Meetup
• Digital Rebar Provision 8.1 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
• Mark Imbriaco, Global CTO DevOps Pivotal – Listen (47 min 10 sec)
• John Willis, VP DevOps and Digital Practices, SJ Technologies – Listen (54 min 33 sec)
• Coming Next Week – Baruch Sadogursky, Developer Advocate, JFrog

Social Media

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• Twitter –  @RackNgo / @DigitalRebar / @L8istSh9y
• YouTube – RackN & Digital Rebar
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