OpenShift on Bare Metal
The reliable, rapid end-to-end solution for OpenShift
Production-ready OpenShift and OpenShift Virtualization on Bare Metal
OpenShift is a strategic yet complex solution for running virtualized workloads alongside containers. Bare metal automation from RackN’s Digital Rebar Platform simplifies the entire process, from hardware lifecycle management to day 2 operations. This gives platform and infrastructure teams the tools needed to consistently and quickly deploy and manage OpenShift across all environments and hardware OEMs. Whether you need containers or an alternative to VMware, we make it simple to implement OpenShift on bare metal.
As your organization’s digital transformation adopts IaC practices, you can treat technology platforms as a commodity and create new opportunities for the entire business.
Why Digital Rebar?
No matter how you’re using OpenShift, Digital Rebar automation makes it fast and simple to do on bare metal.
Scalable, repeatable cluster deployment
OpenShift can be time-consuming to operate, especially for teams unfamiliar with CLI-driven processes. Digital Rebar makes OpenShift easier to install and much more efficient to scale. Using our pre-built, customizable workflows, deploy multiple clusters and even populate them with VMs in a single click or API call. Whether you’re provisioning across a single site or globally distributed infrastructure, Digital Rebar ensures consistent, repeatable OpenShift outcomes every time.
Automation for more than just developers
Most infrastructure doesn’t scale well because it’s fragile and inconsistent. Digital Rebar provides automated, repeatable workflows that support multi-site and multi-vendor environments. With our versioned and customizable IaC workflows, you can scale up without scaling headcount to match.
Simplifying the Kubernetes switch
Digital Rebar standardizes your provisioning pipeline, allowing you to deploy any OS, hypervisor, or platform across any hardware. Run mixed environments, like Intel and AMD, VMware and OpenShift Virtualization, Ubuntu and RHEL, without reinventing your existing processes.
Multi-vendor and multi-site ready
VMware licensing changes? New security baseline? Zero-touch rebuilds? Digital Rebar is built to handle these changes efficiently. Our modular architecture and dev|test|prod staging pipelines allow you to validate and roll out changes without causing issues in production or relying on manual patching.
Deployment
Scalable, repeatable cluster deployment
OpenShift can be time-consuming to operate, especially for teams unfamiliar with CLI-driven processes. Digital Rebar makes OpenShift easier to install and much more efficient to scale. Using our pre-built, customizable workflows, deploy multiple clusters and even populate them with VMs in a single click or API call. Whether you’re provisioning across a single site or globally distributed infrastructure, Digital Rebar ensures consistent, repeatable OpenShift outcomes every time.
Automation
Automation for more than just developers
Most infrastructure doesn’t scale well because it’s fragile and inconsistent. Digital Rebar provides automated, repeatable workflows that support multi-site and multi-vendor environments. With our versioned and customizable IaC workflows, you can scale up without scaling headcount to match.
Kubernetes Switch
Simplifying the Kubernetes switch
Digital Rebar standardizes your provisioning pipeline, allowing you to deploy any OS, hypervisor, or platform across any hardware. Run mixed environments, like Intel and AMD, VMware and OpenShift Virtualization, Ubuntu and RHEL, without reinventing your existing processes.
Multi-site
Multi-vendor and multi-site ready
VMware licensing changes? New security baseline? Zero-touch rebuilds? Digital Rebar is built to handle these changes efficiently. Our modular architecture and dev|test|prod staging pipelines allow you to validate and roll out changes without causing issues in production or relying on manual patching.
Migrating to OpenShift from VMware doesn't have to be difficult
We put together a workbook based on real customer experience to help in building out a transition plan. If you’re starting to plan out your migration strategy, it’s worth a read.
RackN Digital Rebar Capabilities
Provisioning Automation
Expand Choice starting from a multi‑vendor Provisioning Automation and proven best practices
Infrastructure as Code
Improve Consistency with fully source-controlled Infrastructure as Code automation and API‑driven workflows.
Distributed Infrastructure
Gain Control across your edge, enterprise, co‑lo and cloud Distributed Infrastructure while keeping site autonomy.
Orchestration as Code
Enable Creation of an end-to-end pipeline capable of infrastructure coordination and automation of DevOps Day 2 operations.
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