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

Enhancing Digital Rebar Potential with Plugins – Honeycomb Example

The open source Digital Rebar Provision (DRP) solution provides a basic set of features that are enhanced with plugins offering additional services to customers. These plugins are provided by the Digital Rebar community, customers, partners, and RackN delivering significant value over and above the base provisioning capability of DRP.

RackN and Honeycomb developed a unique plugin during SRECon Americas a few weeks back allowing DRP events to be visible within the Honeycomb tool. Offering partners like Honeycomb an opportunity to integrate with DRP provides partners with a methodology to offer their services to the Digital Rebar community. For the community, having a simple plugin capability allows for use of pre-existing infrastructure tools.

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Immutable Deployments Hands-On Lab from Interop ITX

Greg Althaus presented a hands-on lab to 50 attendees to use Digital Rebar Provision and the RackN Portal to provision a pre-built Linux image for rapid node availability.

News

• Open Source
  • Kubernetes distributions vs the open source option : TechTarget
  • Open Source: What Is It Good For? : Light Reading
• Edge Computing
  • Challenges At The Edge : Semiconductor Engineering
  • Edge computing weeds out latency issue, provides immersive experience : MoneyControl
• DevOps / SRE
  • Data, DevOps, and the Rest of the Business : Information Week
  • Are You Protecting Your DevOps Software Factory? : Dark Reading

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 (Slides & Video)
    • DevOps vs SRE vs Cloud Native
    • Composable Infrastructure: What it Means for your Data Center (Slides)
• 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
• Baruch Sadogursky, Developer Advocate, JFrog – Listen (40 min 9 sec)
• Mark Imbriaco, Global CTO DevOps Pivotal – Listen (47 min 10 sec)
• Coming Next Week – Chetan Venkatesh, CEO and Founder Macrometa

Social Media

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