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RackN CEO, Rob Hirschfeld, has been posting about our unique composable operations approach with Digital Rebar to enable hybrid infrastructure and mix-and-match underlay tooling. This post shows some remarkable flexibility enabled by the approach that allow operators to take limited, secure operations against running systems. via Surgical Ansible & Script Injections before,Continue Reading

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It’s been a banner year for container awareness and adoption so we wanted to recap 2015.  For RackN, container acceleration is near to our heart because we both enable and use them in fundamental ways.   Look for Rob’s 2016 predictions on his blog. The RackN team has truly deep and broad experience withContinue Reading

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Nearly 10 TIMES faster system resets – that’s the result of fully enabling an multi-container immutable deployment on Digital Rebar. I’ve been having a “containers all the way down” month since we launched Digital Rebar deployment using Docker Compose. I don’t want to imply that we rubbed Docker on theContinue Reading

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In: All, Ansible, Digital Rebar, Kubernetes, Packet.net

We’re using Packet.net hosted metal to test automation for private metal (video).  You can use discount code “RACKN100” to get a credit on Packet and try it yourself. At RackN, we’ve been shrinking our scale deployment platform down to run faithfully on a desktop class system. Since we abstract theContinue Reading