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Need a physical ops baseline? Crowbar continues to uniquely fill gap
I’ve been watching to see if other open “bare metal” projects would morph to match the system-level capabilities that we proved in Crowbar v1 and honed in the re-architecture of OpenCrowbar. The...
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Are VMs becoming El Caminos? Containers & Metal provide new choices for DevOps
I released “VMS ARE DEAD” this post two weeks ago on DevOps.com. My point here is that Ops Automation (aka DevOps) is FINALLY growing beyond Cloud APIs and VMs. This creates a much richer ecosystem...
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Docker-Machine Crowbar Driver Delivers Metal Containers
I’ve just completed a basic Docker Machine driver for OpenCrowbar. This enables you to quickly spin-up (and down) remote Docker hosts on bare metal servers from their command line tool. There are...
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OpenStack Vancouver six observations: partners, metal, tents, defore, brands...
As always, OpenStack conferences/summits are packed with talks and discussions. Any one of these six points could be a full post; however, I would rather post now and start discussions. Let me know...
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exploring Docker Swarm on Bare Metal for raw performance and ops simplicity
As part of our exploration of containers on metal, the RackN team has created a workload on top of OpenCrowbar as the foundation for a Docker Swarm on bare metal cluster. This provides a second more...
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StackEngine Docker on Metal via RackN Workload for OpenCrowbar
6/19: This was CROSS POSTED WITH STACKENGINE In our quest for fast and cost effective container workloads, RackN and StackEngine have teamed up to jointly develop a bare metal StackEngine workload for...
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Deploy to Metal? No sweat with RackN new Ansible Dynamic Inventory API
Content originally posted by Ansibile & RackN so I added a video demo. Also, see Ansible’s original post for more details about the multi-vendor “Simple OpenStack Initiative.” The RackN team takes...
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Introducing Digital Rebar. Building strong foundations for New Stack...
This week, I have the privilege to showcase the emergence of RackN’s updated approach to data center infrastructure automation that is container-ready and drives “cloud-style” DevOps on physical metal....
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A year of RackN – 9 lessons from the front lines of evangalizing open...
Let’s avoid this > “We’re heading right at the ground, sir! Excellent, all engines full power! another scale? oars & motors. WWF managing small scale fisheries RackN is refining our from “start...
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¡Sí, Sí! That’s a Two Hundred Node Metal Docker Swarm Deployment
Today, RackN and Ubiquity Hosting announced a 200 node Docker Swarm deployment on hosted bare metal. Leveraging the current Digital Rebar core and the RackN Swarm workload, this reference deployment...
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12 Predictions for ’16: mono-cloud ambitions die as containers drive more...
I expect 2016 to be a confusing year for everyone in IT. For 2015, I predicted that new uses for containers are going to upset cloud’s apple cart; however, the replacement paradigm is not clear yet....
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Podcast with Zach Smith talking Bare Metal and AWS Training Wheels
Joining this week’s L8ist Sh9y Podcast is Zach Smith, CEO of Packet and long-time champion of bare metal hardware. Rob Hirschfeld and Zach discuss the trends in bare metal, the impact of AWS changing...
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