Terraform bare metal made easy with RackN and HashiCorp
Controlling bare metal infrastructure should be simple, powerful and cloud-like. That’s why RackN built the Digital Rebar Platform (DRP) Terraform provider. The DRP provider gives Terraform access to pools of hardware to allocate and destroy hardware as...
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....
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...