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Distributed Infrastructure

Manage and scale across sites 10x faster

Digital Rebar’s built-in Multi-Site Manager allows you to confidently automate and update infrastructure across multiple data centers, edge locations, and globally federated environments. Each site maintains autonomy while sharing a consistent baseline, enabling you to manage distributed infrastructure at enterprise scale.

Fewer Operators, Control Remote Management, Improve IT stability: Multi-Site Manager allows our small operations team to keep sites running without adding local IT support.”

Financial Services Executive

Multi-Site Manager Overview

Multi-Site Manager is a federated control plane for the platform’s core bare metal and lifecycle automation capabilities. Each site operates independently with its own high availability, secrets management, DHCP/DNS, provisioning, and workflow execution contained within its boundaries. The Multi-Site Manager coordinates operations across sites without requiring constant connectivity.

This capability lets you build regionally aware infrastructures, connect on-premises and edge sites, and streamline change management across your estate. Sites exchange event-driven updates to maintain visibility without introducing cross-site dependency. All content, from workflows and parameters to version sets, is synchronized using Digital Rebar’s Infrastructure as Code practices.

What Multi-Site Manager Provides

Site Autonomy with Local Continuity

Each site runs a complete Digital Rebar endpoint. Operations continue even if the manager or WAN link is unavailable. High-availability clusters protect core services so provisioning and orchestration remain available during local failures. This model simplifies networking and respects security boundaries.

Consolidated Global and Regional Views

Managers attach to downstre am sites and track their event streams. Views are served locally from this data, which gives a comprehensive lens into audits and health checks, letting you stay up-to-date on inventory and status without screen-scraping or batch exports.

Patented Federated Management API

To improve consistency, the manager uses the same API as individual sites. Write and action requests pass-through to the target endpoint, preserving local authority and role-based controls. This pattern avoids manager conflicts while enabling controlled, cross-site operations from one central location.

Synchronized Infrastructure as Code

Like all Digital Rebar content, Multi-Site artifacts are versioned to carefully govern workflows, parameters, plugins, files, ISO images, and UX elements. Managers distribute curated version sets to keep sites aligned while enabling staged rollouts. Teams test, promote, and roll back automation with the same discipline used for applications.
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Scale Across AI Sites

AI infrastructure demands dense, distributed compute environments that can operate independently while staying aligned with central standards. Operators deploying AI workloads gain the ability to scale across GPU-optimized hardware globally with few site-specific adjustments. Multi-Site Manager is specifically suited for these scenarios. 

Each AI site can operate independently, maintain local high availability, and synchronize its automation with the rest of the fleet. Digital Rebar ensures firmware updates, system resets, and configuration changes are coordinated through the platform’s event-driven orchestration and version-controlled pipelines. As AI sites grow in number and complexity, Digital Rebar helps operators preserve operational consistency without limiting velocity.

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