Modern applications are scalable, portable, resilient, and agile. Thankfully, modern infrastructure tools such as containers and APIs have opened up many new architectural possibilities. This includes spanning applications over on-premises data centers, public cloud, and edge locations. However, this flexibility introduces new IT management challenges.

IT organizations must build architectures that will support the new characteristics.  One of the biggest challenges to building distributed infrastructure is management. If the architecture is distributed, the management must be local and site-specific. Additionally, distributed infrastructure management should be unified and centrally visible. Unfortunately, many current management platforms still treat sites as fragmented silos.

RackN Digital Rebar was built to be decentralized yet adaptable. It has extensible architecture that pulls reusable modules from the Digital Rebar IaC catalog. Using these modules makes it possible to plug in API-integrations & user-extendable workflows to orchestrate a multi-vendor infrastructure. This allows you to manage a distributed infrastructure similar to the way the public cloud providers run their clouds.