You may have an IaC process for your virtual and container environments, but have you extended IaC for VMware hardware? This post will explain how RackN can help you do that! Does IaC for VMware Hardware Make Sense? VMware defines IaC this way: Infrastructure as Code (IaC) is the practice of managing and provisioning infrastructure
Here’s a great interview relating to our EdgeLab.digital Raspberry Pi and Kubernetes environment and why it’s a powerful tool for learning infrastructure automation. Want to learn real enterprise datacenter skills hands-on in the comfort of your home without spending a fortune? Edge Lab from RackN has a way you can do this and get started learning hot
Rob and Swapnil respond to The Register “No, Kubernetes doesn’t make applications portable, say analysts. Good luck avoiding lock-in, too” article. We discuss the fundamental paradox required for Kubernetes to become a generally useful platform.
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
“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.
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 we
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.
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
