Learn the bare metal booting basics in 30 minutes or less
Before you can do any sort of bare metal provisioning, you must boot the machine. One way to do that is by using a PXE (preboot execution environment) boot server. PXE provisioning is an essential component RackN Digital Rebar uses to handle provisioning bare metal. This video focuses on the PXE bare metal boot process. In fact, […]
Top 5 things you need to know to automatically deploy 1K bare metal servers
It’s incredibly difficult to build a scalable system, and it does not happen by accident. The unknowns involved in dealing with bare metal infrastructure make resilience and reliability difficult to predict in advance. So, we thought we would share the top 5 things you need to know to automatically deploy 1K bare metal servers. These […]
How can you keep hundreds of automated sites synchronized?
The RackN Digital Rebar platform helps organizations build end-to-end infrastructure as code (IaC) workflows for any infrastructure type. Running IaC is critical to rapidly deploying infrastructure changes. It can prevent long infrastructure delays that impact the software development team’s productivity. But what happens when someone changes the code in one site when you are managing […]
Platform engineering is more than a portal
People are excited about the promise of platform engineering empowering development teams via an internal developer portal (IDP). Once possible reason is that DevOps fragmentation is crushing any anticipated value.  It’s true, IDPs are important. However, platform engineering is more than a portal. If you want to address the DevOps fragmentation problem you must […]
Platform engineering is not just for devs!
Do you find the platform engineering hype overly developer focused? We do too! In fact, we believe that platform engineering is not just for devs! Platform engineering requires thoughtful operational work Great platform engineering delivery focuses on productizing the operational work that provides seamless self-service experience and developer autonomy. Fundamentally, that’s what great infrastructure operations practices are […]
Empowering Platform Engineering Success
RackN provides a platform for reliable IaC automation. That is a critical component for Ops organizations supporting Development teams.  However, we don’t try to solve every problem for every user. We recognize that the Dev and Ops platform needs are different. For that reason, our focus is on helping with the Infrastructure side of Platform Engineering work. […]
Digital Rebar v4.11 Released!
RackN is excited to announce the release of Digital Rebar v4.11. This release focused on security, performance, and operational enhancements. Feedback from our customers tell us that core improvement-focused releases often have a faster ROI because they focus on current needs for deployed projects. Release themes The most significant release changes follow simple themes in improvements […]
Top 4 infrastructure and operations trends for 2023
At RackN, we track critical trends impacting Enterprise infrastructure and operations teams all year long. In 2022 news we tracked trends such as the VMware acquisition, FTX, and Twitter. Looking forward to 2023, we lean on our work with companies leading in four areas: IaC/DevOps, Cloud Native Operations, Infrastructure Hardware and Edge for special insight into how these trends […]
Six Ways to Start Green IT Efforts
This post is part of our RackN Intern Reports series, where we ask our interns to highlight important aspects and lessons from their projects with RackN like feature and marketing development This past summer, I was a research intern at RackN, working on a project studying how to reduce the climate impact of digital infrastructure from the DevOps software […]
Do you create platforms that disappear?
All platform teams share the same primary mission: improve developer productivity. There may be many other organization-specific secondary goals for creating platforms such as controlling cost, improving security, maintaining high site reliability, and streamlined compliance. So it may be strange to hear that the best teams are the ones that create platforms that disappear. Platform teams […]