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

Getting Edge-Y at OpenStack Summit – 5 Ways it’s an Easy Concept with Hard Delivery

The 2018 Vancouver OpenStack Summit is very focused on IT infrastructure at the Edge. It’s a fitting topic considering the telcos’ embrace for the project; however, building the highly distributed, small footprint management needed for these environments is very different than OpenStack’s architectural priorities. There is a significant risk that the community’s bias towards it’s current code base (which still has work needed to service hyper-scale and enterprise data centers) will undermine progress in building suitable Edge IT solutions.

There are five significant ways that Edge is different than “traditional” datacenter.  We often discuss this on our L8istSh9y podcast and it’s time to summarize them in a blog post.

Full Post

Avoiding Infrastructure at Rest -The Power of Immutable Infrastructure Talk 

Rob Hirschfeld’s talk at OpenStack Summit on Image-Based Deployment

News

• Open Source
  • Finally: Historic Eudora email code goes open source : The Register
  • How to Measure the Impact of your Open Source Project : Linux.com
• Edge Computing
  • The edge moves into the spotlight : Smart Industry
  • OpenStack Members Argue About the Definition of ‘the Edge’ : SDX Central
• DevOps / SRE
  • DevOps at Scale: Best Practices in Use Today : Information Week
  • The DevOps Management Perception Gap : 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)
• May Events
  • OpenStack Summit Vancouver (May 21 – 24)
    • Security Considerations for Cloud Edge Computing: VIDEO LINK
    • Avoiding Infrastructure at Rest – the Power of Immutable Infrastructure: VIDEO LINK

Digital Rebar Community

•  Join Community Online Meetup
  • Digital Rebar Meetup #18 (59 min 10 sec)
• NEXT MEETUP June 5th 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
• Jordan Rinke, WalMart Labs – Listen (29 min 03 sec)
• Christine Yen, Co-Founder Honeycomb – Listen (39 min 43 sec)
• Coming Next Week – Aaron Delp, Cohesity

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