Digital Rebar v4.4 Release
On July 30, RackN released Digital Rebar v4.4 (Official Release Notes). Infrastructure Resource Pooling Infrastructure Resource Pooling provides APIs that create a “bare metal cloud” consumable by tools like Terraform. Pooling creates capabilities that abstract Machines into resource groups that can be allocated generically from a single API making the system more elastic. This functionality enables cloud-like […]
RackN Transforms Bare-Metal Servers Into a Cloud [DevOps.com]
“IT teams want to be able to provision bare-metal servers as if they were code…. Achieving that goal, however, should not require IT organizations to hire a site reliability engineer (SRE)” Read the full DevOps.com article. RackN Transforms Bare-Metal Servers Into a Cloud
The RackN Vision – Enabling Customer Self-Management
Three minute video and transcript explaining the vision behind RackN designs for Digital Rebar. Transcript: I’m Rob Hirschfeld CEO and co founder of RackN. I’d like to take three minutes to explain what Digital Rebar is by explaining why what and how we build it. Simply put, we empower self-management by our customers, because […]
Infrastructure Security: Automation Chains and Secure Boot [TFiR]
Why is Infrastructure Security getting worse? We’ve been making the most basic aspects of infrastructure too complex and hard to automate. Companies can address security by building secure automation processes from the ground up. Read more about RackN Digital Rebar Secure Boot capabilities. Since the video is a little long (14mins), here’s a breakdown of the […]
Digital Rebar Approach to Infrastructure as Code [BrightTALK]
45 minute presentation about How Infrastructure as Code Architecture influenced Digital Rebar Infrastructure as Code (Iac) is marketed as the answer to all automation problems. How can that be true when no one really has a good definition? Let’s fix that! This talk captures ideas from a tweet battle started when Rob asked for a definition. […]
Why RackN choose open ecosystem over open core [by Matt Asay w TechRepublic]
This article by Matt Asay with Tech Republic discusses the history and motivations behind our decision to pursue an open ecosystem strategy with Digital Rebar v4. Why RackN turned its Open Core licensing model on its head By Matt Asay w Tech Republic One of the more interesting areas of innovation in open source has been the licensing […]
Infrastructure as Code & EdgeLab [Rob on Cloud Talk Show ep16]
Rob was on the Cloud Talk Show (ep 16) with Larry Smithmier and Ralph Rivas. Join Ralph and Larry as they talk to Rob Hirschfeld about how he is helping solve the problems below the cloud. RackN helps companies work with bare metal (not metal bears) programatically, so you can refactor your data center to meet changing needs. […]
RackN Digital Rebar v4 Release
RackN is excited to announce v4 of Digital Rebar. In this fourth generation, we recognize the project’s evolution from provisioner into a data center automation platform. While the external APIs and behavior are NOT changing (v4.0 and v3.13 are API compatible), we are making important structural changes that allow for significant enhancements to scale, performance […]