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RackN Presents at Cloud Field Day 13



Cloud Field Day 13

Rob Hirschfeld and Greg Althaus presented at Cloud Field Day 13


This Presentation date is February 18, 2022 at 10:00-11:30.

Presenters: Greg Althaus, Rob Hirschfeld



Infrastructure as Code as Enterprise Scale with RackN

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RackN journey from Provisioning and Configuration to full Infrastructure as Code Platform. Our experience helping customers with the DevOps challenge of needing to control and consistent automation over many environments and teams. Presented by Rob Hirschfeld, CEO & Co-Founder, RackN.

Personnel: Rob Hirschfeld

Scaling IaC Across Sites and Teams with Infrastructure Pipelines

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Rob Hirschfeld and Greg Althaus go into character as an example of customer growth from multisite to hybrid IT to a full platform team model for scale IaC and GitOps. The demo features Multi-Site and Multi-Team IaC via GitOps. We will be creating autonomous DevOps and SRE sites using automated webhook triggers. Showing consolidated management control and independent team management united by Infrastructure as Code managed via GitOps. Presented by Rob Hirschfeld, CEO & Co-Founder, and Greg Althaus, CTO & Co-Founder, RackN.

Personnel: Greg Althaus, Rob Hirschfeld

Building Self-Service IaC Using Kubernetes Clusters with RackN

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Starting with an existing Kubernetes Pipeline, expand the footprint of the existing cluster via GitOps change, webhooks and triggers without any human action. Explain how this approach is API-driven and enables team self-service. Use Dev / Test / Prod approach for validating automation. Presented by Rob Hirschfeld, CEO & Co-Founder, and Greg Althaus, CTO & Co-Founder, RackN.

Personnel: Greg Althaus, Rob Hirschfeld

Day 2 Operations with RackN IaC Updates

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Use Ansible from a blueprint to scale out a critical security scan and then bring systems into compliance parallel enforcement. Expand the cloud broker capability by adding a firewall module using composable Terraform operations. Presented by Rob Hirschfeld, CEO & Co-Founder, and Greg Althaus, CTO & Co-Founder, RackN.

Personnel: Greg Althaus, Rob Hirschfeld


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