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What Digital Rebar is, in under 5 minutes

Explainer
3:14

What is Digital Rebar?

Explainer
4:48

The basics of bare metal automation

1:07

Digital Rebar Install Overview (v4.14)

From Rob

Edutainment with CEO Rob Hirschfeld

From Rob
3:25

VMware in Space!

From Rob
5:42

OpenStack, Kubernetes, and the hard truth about bare metal

From Rob
3:48

The cloud vs. bare metal debate

Bare metal automation

Provisioning, lifecycle, decommissioning at scale

Explainer
5:30

The trick to scale bare metal

Demo
6:55

A new way to decommission servers

From Rob

Accelerating Bare Metal Infrastructure with Portable Automation

Bare metal provisioning

Zero-touch, image-based, at scale

RackN Digital Rebar v4 Training Video

PXE Boot Provision Explained – the Basics

PXE Boot Provision Explained – Advanced Topics

VMware

Exit, migration & vCenter lifecycle

2:00

Navigating the complexities of replacing VMware

Explainer
8:30

VMware migration doesn’t happen in a day

TFiR · w/ Rob

Demo
12:18

Considering OpenShift Virtualization vs VMware?

OpenShift on bare metal

OpenShift Virtualization at scale

Explainer
6:40

The 3 ways to create OpenShift VMs

Demo
9:21

Oh vNo: adventures in bare metal

How to Install OpenShift

AI & large-scale data centers

Rapid resets, infrastructure pipelines, AI infra

Your AI Cluster Isn’t an AI Factory

Interview

Why AI Won’t Save Your Infrastructure Team — Unless You Fix This First | Rob Hirschfeld, RackN

ARM64 in the Data Center

DevOps / IaC and Compliance

For platform engineering teams

AI Is Finding Your Vulnerabilities Faster Than You Can Patch | Rob Hirschfeld, RackN

TechOps series

Deep dive
12:42

The different types of air gap

Explainer
8:15

How to improve your patch management

Industry interviews

VMblog, TFiR & analyst conversations

Kubernetes in AI: What’s Different from Cloud-Native Workloads

TFiR · w/ Rob

Interview
22:48

The future of AIOps: automation meets platform engineering

TFiR · w/ Rob

Interview
16:05

Ten years of KubeCon: what really changed

TFiR · w/ Rob

Customer stories & results

Proof, not pitches

Success story
14:22

A 40,000-server data center migration in just six weeks

TFiR · w/ Rob

Demo
42:30

Slay these five automation dragons

WWT Automation Day

Case study
6:18

AI pipeline case study: rapid resets at scale

Cross-listed from AI shelf

Latest & industry news

Agentic AI Will Break Your Infrastructure

Interview

The Hidden Alternative to VMware Nobody’s Talking About

Industry news
14:10

RackN helps enterprises navigate VMware under Broadcom

TFiR · w/ Rob

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