Opscode Summit Recap – taking Chef & DevOps to a whole new level
Opscode Summit Agenda created by open space I have to say that last week’s Opscode Community Summit was one of the most productive summits that I have attended. Their use of the open-space meeting...
View ArticleOpenCrowbar Design Principles: The Ops Challenge [Series 2 of 6]
This is part 2 of 6 in a series discussing the principles behind the “ready state” and other concepts implemented in OpenCrowbar. The content is reposted from the OpenCrowbar docs repo. The operations...
View ArticleOps Bridges > Building a Sharable Ops Infrastructure with Composable Tool...
This posted started from a discussion with Judd Maltin that he documented in a post about “wanting a composable run deck.” I’ve had several conversations comparing OpenCrowbar with other “bare metal...
View ArticleIronic + Crowbar: United in Vision, Complementary in Approach
This post is co-authored by Devanda van der Veen, OpenStack Ironic PTL, and Rob Hirschfeld, OpenCrowbar Founder. We discuss how Ironic and Crowbar work together today and into the future. Normalizing...
View ArticleWe need DevOps without Borders! Is that “Hybrid DevOps?”
The RackN team has been working on making DevOps more portable for over five years. Portable between vendors, sites, tools and operating systems means that our automation needs be to hybrid in...
View ArticleHybrid DevOps: Union of Configuration, Orchestration and Composability
Steven Spector and I talked about “Hybrid DevOps” as a concept. Our discussion led to a ‘there’s a picture for that!’ moment that often helped clarify the concept. We believe that this concept, like...
View ArticleWhy Fork Docker? Complexity Wack-a-Mole and Commercial Open Source
Monday, The New Stack broke news about a possible fork of the Docker Engine and prominently quoted me saying “Docker consistently breaks backend compatibility.” The technical instability alone is not...
View ArticleData Center’s Last Mile: Zero Touch Metal Automation
The embedded video is an excellent RackN and Digital Rebar overview created by Rob Hirschfeld and Greg Althaus, co-founders of RackN on the critical issue facing data center operations teams. Their...
View ArticleFull Stack Physical Provisioning Automation: Metal to Platform Delivery
RackN and the Digital Rebar community are focused on solving key issues learned from enterprise DevOps teams: Operations are inconsistent, manual and heterogeneous Foundational automation makes many...
View ArticleInfrastructure Provisioning for Ansible with Digital Rebar Provision
Digital Rebar Provision (DRP) is the perfect technology partner for Ansible customers looking to automate their infrastructure setup before applying their orchestration tool of choice. DRP...
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