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Bare Metal Automation

Integrated automation for fast, rack-scale operations across
the entire hardware lifecycle

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83%

Reduction in on-premises deployment time

83%

Reduction in on-premises deployment time

Automate the Full Lifecycle

Automating bare metal beyond provisioning is crucial to operating scalable and consistent infrastructure. Most bare metal provisioners stop there, leaving you to fill in the rest with custom, disconnected scripts and manual handoffs. RackN’s Digital Rebar bare metal automation platform goes a step further, bridging the gaps between Days 0, 1, and 2 using automation to enable rack-scale operations and break down tool silos.

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Automate with Out-of-the-Box Infrastructure Pipelines

Enabled by Digital Rebar's Infrastructure as Code (IaC) approach, Infrastructure Pipelines are the automation layer that bridges provisioning and ongoing operations. Each pipeline is a sequence of standardized workflows that can be applied immediately and reused.

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Eliminate Manual Steps with the Digital Rebar API

Automation is only as effective as the interfaces it exposes. Digital Rebar is designed from the ground up as an API-first system. The underlying API drives every operation in the user interface or CLI, with complete access to workflows, machine states, parameters, and logs. Our API supports websocket events for real-time status, PATCH for incremental changes, and a complete Swagger definition for programmatic access.

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Manage Across the Globe with Multi-Site Manager

Digital Rebar is engineered to operate reliably across geographically distributed environments. Relying on federation through Infrastructure as Code, Digital Rebar’s Multi-Site Manager coordinates automation across sites without requiring centralized control, allowing each site to function independently while maintaining a baseline. 

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Run Air-Gapped Environments with Ease

Unlike SaaS tools that need external connectivity, Digital Rebar is self-hosted. It’s designed to run entirely within your environment without depending on external services. This capability provides both autonomy and compliance, giving you total control over infrastructure without expanding your attack surface area or increasing your reliance on cloud-based services.

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Keep Operations Secure

Security and access control are foundational to infrastructure management, which is why security controls are part of the base platform, not add-ons. Digital Rebar offers a comprehensive set of security features for enterprise-level protection that won’t get in the way of day-to-day operations.

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Broad Platform and Vendor Integration

Digital Rebar provides deep, ready-to-use automation for commonly used platforms including Windows, RHEL, Ubuntu, ESXi, OpenShift, Proxmox, and Kubernetes, as well as all major hardware OEMs. This enables consistent workflows across mixed environments without custom scripting or vendor lock-in.

Digital Rebar supports native imaging, secure boot, post-install configuration, and firmware-level automation across these systems, ensuring that operators can provision and maintain them reliably with a unified control plane.

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Keep Operations Secure

Security and access control are foundational to infrastructure management, which is why security controls are part of the base platform, not add-ons. Digital Rebar offers a comprehensive set of security features for enterprise-level protection that won’t get in the way of day-to-day operations.

Single Sign On

Digital Rebar integrates with external identity providers through SAML and LDAP, including Active Directory. SSO enables you to use existing authentication policies without giving up internal control. With SSO, role assignment is automatically mapped from the identity provider to simplify access governance.

Role-Based Access

Role-based access is embedded into Digital Rebar, not overlaid as a secondary system. Restrict actions on a per-object and per-method basis. Limit visibility to machines, parameters, and workflows according to job function, team, or tenant. RBAC is enforced at the API layer and includes logs for every access attempt.

Secure Boot Capabilities

Digital Rebar supports Secure Boot provisioning workflows. This includes BIOS enforcement for signed operating systems, secure firmware configuration, and validation steps to ensure systems are deployed into a known, trusted state. These practices are essential for compliance with hardened baseline requirements and are integrated into standard workflows.

Auditing

Every action taken in the platform, whether manual or automated, is recorded in real time in a complete event history for machines, workflows, and users, accessible through the API or user interface. The Event-to-Audit plugin and related integrations forward data to external analysis systems when needed. 

Secrets Management

Digital Rebar includes encrypted parameters for storing sensitive data and supports external secret management systems like HashiCorp Vault. Secrets are encrypted in use and at rest, and their use is traceable through the audit log. The system can substitute secrets automatically during automation without exposing them in logs or task output.

Backup and Recovery

Create backups of Digital Rebar endpoints and restore them with minimal downtime. Digital Rebar supports live backup with fast restore and follows prescriptive steps for disaster recovery across distributed deployments. Backups include all system state, configuration, and automation content.

Automate the Full Lifecycle

Automating bare metal beyond provisioning is crucial to operating scalable and consistent infrastructure. Most bare metal provisioners stop there, leaving you to fill in the rest with custom, disconnected scripts and manual handoffs. RackN’s Digital Rebar bare metal automation platform goes a step further, bridging the gaps between Days 0, 1, and 2 using automation to enable rack-scale operations and break down tool silos.

Repave Racks in Minutes

Resets and reinstalls are a regular part of infrastructure operations. Digital Rebar returns racks to a clean, validated state in minutes, not hours. The platform’s workflows allow you to wipe, reinstall, and rebaseline machines in one pass, shortening change windows and making maintenance predictable. These workflows are version-controlled and customizable, making redeployment fast and safe at scale.

Configure Machines and Detect Drift Quickly

Digital Rebar provides multiple mechanisms for configuration management, including the native agent, Ansible integration, cloud-init, and custom post-install scripts. This flexibility accommodates mixed stacks and standardizes outcomes while avoiding tool silos. More importantly, configuration enforcement is continuous with built-in drift management. You can initiate targeted corrections or execute a full system rebuild, giving you consistency across environments while preserving flexibility.

Manage Bare Metal Like Cloud

To meet the demands of dynamic infrastructure, Digital Rebar leverages pools and cluster-level automation. Machines can be requested without specifying hostnames, enabling API-driven allocation similar to cloud provisioning models. Pooling and cluster constructs reuse tasks for provisioning and ongoing operations, keeping the process uniform from first boot through maintenance. This approach reduces friction when scaling environments and ensures consistent lifecycle operations.

Integrate Beyond Bare Metal

Digital Rebar is designed to work as part of a broader automation ecosystem, providing standardized lifecycle control while keeping existing processes intact. The API-first model and eventing system enable seamless integration with CI/CD pipelines, ITSM platforms, and orchestration tools. Whether you use GitOps workflows, webhook-driven triggers, or external schedulers, Digital Rebar can pull or push events to coordinate with external systems.

Decommission with a Workflow

Digital Rebar treats decommissioning as a controlled pipeline with defined steps for inventory, wipe, audit, and return to pool or disposal. You can integrate erasure tools, capture proof of actions, and maintain records that satisfy compliance while preparing machines for reuse or resale. 

Automate with Out-of-the-Box Infrastructure Pipelines

Enabled by Digital Rebar's Infrastructure as Code (IaC) approach, Infrastructure Pipelines are the automation layer that bridges provisioning and ongoing operations. Each pipeline is a sequence of standardized workflows that can be applied immediately and reused.

Enabled by Digital Rebar's Infrastructure as Code (IaC) approach, Infrastructure Pipelines are the automation layer that bridges provisioning and ongoing operations. Each pipeline is a sequence of standardized workflows that can be applied immediately and reused. Start with our extensive out-of-the-box library and customize as needed, preserving organizational standards while significantly accelerating processes. With Infrastructure Pipelines, you avoid making custom automation for each platform or system type, reducing maintenance overhead and improving long-term reliability.

Eliminate Manual Steps with the Digital Rebar API

Automation is only as effective as the interfaces it exposes. Digital Rebar is designed from the ground up as an API-first system. The underlying API drives every operation in the user interface or CLI, with complete access to workflows, machine states, parameters, and logs. Our API supports websocket events for real-time status, PATCH for incremental changes, and a complete Swagger definition for programmatic access.

Run Workflows with Eventing

Digital Rebar includes an eventing system for internal and external triggers, such as machine state changes, webhook calls, scheduled timers, or custom flags. By connecting these triggers to workflows, you can create responsive automation, letting you enforce conformance, coordinate actions across systems, or start external processes automatically. 

Leverage Built-In Client Libraries

To support integration and automation development, Digital Rebar includes maintained client libraries for Swagger, Golang, Python, and Node.js. These libraries expose the API and follow modern development practices, making it straightforward for you to adopt Infrastructure as Code  automation without building interfaces from scratch.

Drive Efficiency with AI Integration

RackN is introducing the Model Context Protocol (MCP) to extend Digital Rebar’s API model into AI workflows. This enables AI agents by exposing Digital Rebar's API and automation structure in a machine-readable format suitable for real-time interaction and reasoning, letting operators delegate repetitive or time-sensitive tasks while maintaining full control.

Manage Across the Globe with Multi-Site Manager

Digital Rebar is engineered to operate reliably across geographically distributed environments. Relying on federation through Infrastructure as Code, Digital Rebar’s Multi-Site Manager coordinates automation across sites without requiring centralized control, allowing each site to function independently while maintaining a baseline.

Event forwarding keeps systems aligned in real time, and the ability to loosely couple operations means local autonomy isn’t impeded and network interruptions don’t delay critical automation. Updates, patches, and workflows can be staged, tested, and applied across development, staging, and production environments, regardless of physical location.

Run Air-Gapped Environments with Ease

Unlike SaaS tools that need external connectivity, Digital Rebar is self-hosted. It’s designed to run entirely within your environment without depending on external services. This capability provides both autonomy and compliance, giving you total control over infrastructure without expanding your attack surface area or increasing your reliance on cloud-based services.

Unlike SaaS tools that need external connectivity, Digital Rebar is self-hosted. It’s designed to run entirely within your environment without depending on external services. This capability provides both autonomy and compliance, giving you total control over infrastructure without expanding your attack surface area or increasing your reliance on cloud-based services.

Installation and catalog bundling are documented so sites operate without external dependencies while still receiving content through controlled updates. Multi-Site Manager allows for synchronization across environments when needed.