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Company Overview
Founded to improve bare metal operations through integrated automation, the RackN vision comes from a core belief in the transformational power of automation for the IT physical layer. This vision drives our mission to transform infrastructure automation by making advanced cloud techniques accessible at any scale.
Through our flagship product, Digital Rebar Platform, we simplify data center operations with scalable, reusable automation. Something we find critical to our solutions is the ability to efficiently integrate with existing infrastructure as well as create opportunities for new vendors. As a leader in bare metal automation, RackN empowers enterprises in industries like financial services and media & entertainment providers, driving transformation worldwide.
Product Overview
Digital Rebar is a powerful, enterprise-tested infrastructure management platform that simplifies automation across OEMs, architectures, and OS platforms. Our most common use cases include hardware onboarding, infrastructure repaving, integration with CI/CD, platform provisioning, bare metal, cloud, and more.
Key Features
- IaC Architecture with declarative, immutable and version controlled automation and configuration.
- API-Centric Design including Python libraries and thirdparty portal integration
- Comprehensive Bare Metal Provisioning handles PXE/BIOS/firmware/RAID/OS/Media Attach
- Integrated Automation and Orchestration enables event driven automation and alerting
- Infrastructure Pipelines provide hardware lifecycle management including incremental patch updates
Digital Rebar Landscape
At RackN, we believe that managing bare metal infrastructure should be consistent, efficient, and repeatable. Our Digital Rebar platform delivers a powerful solution to prepare your infrastructure for any operating system, hardware vendor, or environment. With a focus on automating and orchestrating workflows, RackN simplifies complex processes to ensure your systems are configured, provisioned, and managed consistently throughout their lifecycle. What we call ““node ready.”
With built-in support for core services like DHCP, DNS, IPAM, and secrets management, RackN handles key infrastructure tasks. We integrate smoothly with existing services or provide temporary replacements during setup. This flexibility extends to service orchestrators, DevOps pipelines, and compliance frameworks, enabling a seamless fit into your operations.
The platform abstracts complexity while reducing operational overhead, allowing customers to focus on delivering value, not managing infrastructure. By delivering a complete bare metal platform, we also make upstream installers like Ansible, Chef, and Puppet work more quickly and consistently.
Red Hat Integrations
The RackN Digital Rebar Platform provides powerful automation for provisioning, configuring, and managing infrastructure at scale. Through deep integration with Red Hat tools and platforms, Digital Rebar simplifies RHEL deployments, enhances post-install automation with Ansible Automation Platform (AAP), enables OpenShift cluster lifecycle management via ACM, and supports operational efficiency with Satellite.
RHEL Deployment Options
Digital Rebar supports a variety of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) deployment workflows:
- Kickstart: Delivered via Digital Rebar Content Packs referencing authorized RHEL templates
- Image-Based Deployment: Utilize Curtin/Eikon to stage and deploy customer-built images
- Red Hat Image Builder: Work with Red Hat tools to build and deploy certified RHEL images
- BootC Deployment: Package and manage RHEL systems within bootable container images.
Company Overview
Company Overview
Founded to improve bare metal operations through integrated automation, the RackN vision comes from a core belief in the transformational power of automation for the IT physical layer. This vision drives our mission to transform infrastructure automation by making advanced cloud techniques accessible at any scale.
Through our flagship product, Digital Rebar Platform, we simplify data center operations with scalable, reusable automation. Something we find critical to our solutions is the ability to efficiently integrate with existing infrastructure as well as create opportunities for new vendors. As a leader in bare metal automation, RackN empowers enterprises in industries like financial services and media & entertainment providers, driving transformation worldwide.
Product Overview
Product Overview
Digital Rebar is a powerful, enterprise-tested infrastructure management platform that simplifies automation across OEMs, architectures, and OS platforms. Our most common use cases include hardware onboarding, infrastructure repaving, integration with CI/CD, platform provisioning, bare metal, cloud, and more.
Key Features
- IaC Architecture with declarative, immutable and version controlled automation and configuration.
- API-Centric Design including Python libraries and thirdparty portal integration
- Comprehensive Bare Metal Provisioning handles PXE/BIOS/firmware/RAID/OS/Media Attach
- Integrated Automation and Orchestration enables event driven automation and alerting
- Infrastructure Pipelines provide hardware lifecycle management including incremental patch updates
Digital Rebar Landscape
Digital Rebar Landscape
At RackN, we believe that managing bare metal infrastructure should be consistent, efficient, and repeatable. Our Digital Rebar platform delivers a powerful solution to prepare your infrastructure for any operating system, hardware vendor, or environment. With a focus on automating and orchestrating workflows, RackN simplifies complex processes to ensure your systems are configured, provisioned, and managed consistently throughout their lifecycle. What we call ““node ready.”
With built-in support for core services like DHCP, DNS, IPAM, and secrets management, RackN handles key infrastructure tasks. We integrate smoothly with existing services or provide temporary replacements during setup. This flexibility extends to service orchestrators, DevOps pipelines, and compliance frameworks, enabling a seamless fit into your operations.
The platform abstracts complexity while reducing operational overhead, allowing customers to focus on delivering value, not managing infrastructure. By delivering a complete bare metal platform, we also make upstream installers like Ansible, Chef, and Puppet work more quickly and consistently.
Red Hat Integrations
Red Hat Integrations
The RackN Digital Rebar Platform provides powerful automation for provisioning, configuring, and managing infrastructure at scale. Through deep integration with Red Hat tools and platforms, Digital Rebar simplifies RHEL deployments, enhances post-install automation with Ansible Automation Platform (AAP), enables OpenShift cluster lifecycle management via ACM, and supports operational efficiency with Satellite.
RHEL Deployment Options
Digital Rebar supports a variety of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) deployment workflows:
- Kickstart: Delivered via Digital Rebar Content Packs referencing authorized RHEL templates
- Image-Based Deployment: Utilize Curtin/Eikon to stage and deploy customer-built images
- Red Hat Image Builder: Work with Red Hat tools to build and deploy certified RHEL images
- BootC Deployment: Package and manage RHEL systems within bootable container images.
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- Infrastructure Platform Engineering DevOpsCon 23
- Better DevOps with Generative AI VMUG 2023
- Generative DevOps threatens Cloud Providers Gluecon May 2023
- Defending Against Complexity Gluecon 22 (May 22)
- 10,000 Production Machines SREcon 2022 (March 22)
- Scaling Enterprise IaC Cloud Field Day 13 (Feb 22)
- Why is Automation So Hard? DevOpsDays Austin (May 22)
- IaC on Bare Metal LISA21 (June 21)
- Solving the Challenge of Distributed Infrastructure Analyst Briefings (Jan 21)