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Apply, Rinse, Repeat! How do I get that DevOps conditioner out of my hair?
I’ve been trying to explain the pain Tao of physical ops in a way that’s accessible to people without scale ops experience. It comes down to a yin-yang of two elements: exploding complexity and...
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OpenCrowbar 2.B to deliver multiple hardware vendor support and advanced...
I’ve stayed quiet on the subject of Crowbar for a few months, but that does not mean that Crowbar has been. Activity has been picking up, after Dell pulled resources off, to complete hardware...
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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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OpenCrowbar bootstrap positions SSH Keys for hand-offs
I was reading a ComputerWorld article about how Google and Amazon achieve scale. The theme: you must do better than linear cost scale and the only way to achieve that is to automate and commoditize...
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Unicorn captured! Unpacking multi-node OpenStack Juno from ready state.
OpenCrowbar Packstack install demonstrates that abstracting hardware to ready state smooths install process. It’s a working balance: Crowbar gets the hardware, O/S & networking right while...
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Starting RackN – Delivering open ops by pulling an OpenCrowbar Bunny out of...
When Dell pulled out from OpenCrowbar last April, I made a commitment to our community to find a way to keep it going. Since my exit from Dell early in October 2014, that commitment has taken the form...
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API Driven Metal = OpenCrowbar + Chef Provisioning
The OpenCrowbar community created a Chef-Provisioning driver that allows you to quickly build hardware clusters using Chef cookbooks. When we started using Chef in 2011, there was a distinct gap around...
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Ironic + 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...
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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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