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Showing to how others explain Ready State & OpenCrowbar
I’m working on a series for DevOps.com to explain Functional Ops (expect it to start early next week!) and it’s very hard to convey it’s east-west API nature. So I’m always excited to see how other...
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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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Ready State Foundation for OpenStack now includes Ceph Storage
For the Paris summit, the OpenCrowbar team delivered a PackStack demo that leveraged Crowbar’s ability to create a OpenStack ready state environment. For the Vancouver summit, we did something even...
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Ceph in an hour? Boring! How about Ceph hardware optimized with advanced...
This is the most remarkable deployment that I’ve had the pleasure to post about. The RackN team has refreshed the original OpenCrowbar Ceph deployment to take advantage of the latest capabilities of...
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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
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 the RackN Enterprise version of OpenCrowbar....
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DNS is critical – getting physical ops integrations right matters
Why DNS? Maintaining DNS is essential to scale ops. It’s not as simple as naming servers because each server will have multiple addresses (IPv4, IPv6, teams, bridges, etc) on multiple NICs depending...
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OpenCrowbar 2.3 (Drill) Overview Videos
Last week, Scott Jensen, RackN COO, uploaded a batch of OpenCrowbar install and demo videos. I’ve presented them in reverse chronological order so you can see what OpenCrowbar looks like before you...
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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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