VMware is core to most operational environments, so why can’t we have easy VMware installs? Do things like easy VMware installs, updating hardware so upgrades (or patch fixes) take hours instead of weeks, repaving servers after a security scare, or properly decommissioning and repurposing cluster hardware sound like a magical dream? At RackN, easy VMware
We go beyond Provisioning, Digital Rebar isthe Complete Bare Metal Life-Cycle Solution Unlike traditional provisioning tools, Digital Rebar provides a complete life-cycle solution. It is API-driven and built to an Infrastructure as Code design. We build for operators who want to program infrastructure, not just configure it. We weren’t satisfied with developing features to solve
Standardize the lifecycle management of any infrastructure with RackN Digital Rebar. Imagine collaboratively creating reusable, site-specific workflows between operations, security, and development teams. It’s possible with Digital Rebar! Digital Rebar connects isolated tools and processes, even incorporating existing DevOps tooling such as Terraform and Ansible with contexts. Digital Rebar automates the full life-cycle of systems
1. Choose an environment: Cloud or Local Digital Rebar is multi-infrastructure so you can get started in minutes on the cloud or take an hour to prove our bare metal features in your on-premises lab. In both cases, you’ll see our industry leading Infrastructure Pipelines first hand. On Cloud (Terraform) You’ll need a small Linux
Distributed infrastructure architecture is the way IT organizations ensure applications are always deployed to the architecture that will provide the best performance. In fact, modern infrastructure tools such as containers and APIs have opened up many new architecture possibilities. This even includes spanning applications over on-premises data centers, public cloud, and edge locations. However, this
RackN built Digital Rebar as a vendor-neutral Provisioning Abstraction Layer. Now we collaborate from the bare metal up!
This week are sharing RackN Digital Rebar tips and tricks for RackN UX for Digital Rebar navigation and Golang Templates. Let us know if you have any questions about these tips in the comments, on Twitter (@rackn), or in the Community Slack. New UX Features First up in tips and tricks: The RackN UX for
Welcome and Subscribe! From the Founders This month RackN celebrated our fifth anniversary! Looking back at some of our founding materials, it is amazing much of our original vision we’ve built and delivered. We’ve taken some time to write those core principles down in a simple and consumable way. Community Activity Our #community Slack channel
Paul Delory lays out a comprehensive view of all the components in the flow required to deliver applications into production.
On July 30, RackN released Digital Rebar v4.4 (Official Release Notes). Infrastructure Resource Pooling Infrastructure Resource Pooling provides APIs that create a “bare metal cloud” consumable by tools like Terraform. Pooling creates capabilities that abstract Machines into resource groups that can be allocated generically from a single API making the system more elastic. This functionality
