Immutable Deployments: Taking Physical Infrastructure from Automation to Autonomy
Channel: RackN
Date: 2018-05-03

Hands on lab from Interop ITX 2018 ; Session Abstract 

Physical Infrastructure is the critical underpinning of every data center; however, it's been very difficult to automate and manage. In this hands on session, we'll review the latest in physical layer automation that uses Cloud Native DevOps processes and tooling to make server (re)provisioning fully automatic.

Attendees will be guided through a full automation provisioning cycle using a mix of technologies including Terraform and Digital Rebar. We'll use cloud based physical servers from Packet.net for the test cycle so that attendees get to work with real infrastructure even from the session.

By the end of the session, you'll be able to setup your own data center provisioning infrastructure, create a pool of deployed servers, allocate those servers using Infrastructure as Code processes. Advanced students may be able to create and deploy complete images using locally captured images.

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