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unBIOSed? Is Redfish an IPMI retread or can vendors find unification?
Server management interfaces stink. They are inconsistent both between vendors and within their own product suites. Ideally, Vendors would agree on a single API; however, it’s not clear if the...
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Nextcast #14 Transcription on OpenStack & Crowbar >“we can’t hand out...
Last week, I was a guest on the NextCast OpenStack podcast hosted by Niki Acosta (EMC) [Jeff Dickey could not join]. I’ve taken some time to transcribe highlights. We had a great discussion about...
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OpenCrowbar v2.1 Video Tour from Metal to OpenStack and beyond
With the OpenCrowbar v2.1 out, I’ve been asked to update the video library of Crowbar demos. Since a complete tour is about 3 hours, I decided to cut it down into focused demos that would allow you to...
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Online Meetup Today (1/13): Build a rock-solid foundation under your...
Reminder: Online meetup w/ Crowbar + OpenStack DEMO TODAY Here’s the notice from the site (with my added Picture) Tuesday, January 13, 2015 9:00 AM to 10:00 AM Pacific Time Registration Link Building...
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too easy to bare metal? Ansible just works with OpenCrowbar
I’ve talked before about how OpenCrowbar distributes SSH keys automatically as part of its deployment process. Now, it’s time to unleash some of the subsequent magic! If you provision servers with...
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Talking Functional Ops & Bare Metal DevOps with vBrownBag [video]
Last Wednesday (3/11/15), I had the privilege of talking with the vBrownBag crowd about Functional Ops and bare metal deployment. In this hour, I talk about how functional operations (FuncOps) works...
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Manage Hardware like a BOSS – latest OpenCrowbar brings API to Physical Gear
A few weeks ago, I posted about VMs being squeezed between containers and metal. That observation comes from our experience fielding the latest metal provisioning feature sets for OpenCrowbar;...
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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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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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We 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...
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