!!WARNING: DEEP SYSADMIN CUTS AHEAD!!

Back in the early 2000s, if you were a sysadmin that had to set up desktops or servers, you probably used Norton Ghost to create images.

When virtualization became big, that process moved to creating VM templates.

But there was still often a lot of manual intervention in these tasks - password setting, BIOS updates, vCenter installations and more. As the IT world moves more and more towards automating software tasks, what about automating infrastructure provisioning? Sure, there's cloud, but what if you're still on-prem?

This week, Rob Hirschfeld of RackN joins us to discuss how RackN helps automate the previously un-automate-able.

Episode 367 - Infrastructure Automation with RackN

We dive into Shoshana Zuboff’s book The Age of Surveillance Capitalism. Full of amazing insights, predictions and really insightful work, you can literally scan every page and read something fascinating. You don't need the book to follow today’s discussion. 

We start by watching Apple's new iPad ad before we dive into the book, and I highly recommend that you watch it as well, link in the show notes. It's a good tie into the surveillance capitalism discussion and I think you will enjoy our commentary about it.

References:
https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/8/24152236/apple-ipad-pro-commercial-artists-ai
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1541758005/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title

Transcript: https://otter.ai/u/Y-bm0QL3Vnfjcy4hgmTIiqkUpNU?utm_source=copy_url

Surveillance Capitalism [Book Club]

We step back in this episode of our Tech Ops series and talk about cloud self managed infrastructure and how you balance the competing concerns. We started from a report that RackN had commissioned talking about on premises Kubernetes, and mixing that into your IT infrastructure. 

Can you have a cloud broker? Can you do multi cloud, some sort of tried and true topics for cloud consideration, but through a new filter and through this repatriation idea of mixing and matching your IT Infrastructure? 

Transcript: https://otter.ai/u/FKGuQpV-5bQFVASAYDhNQJtuoKM?utm_source=copy_url

Resources:
https://store.repebble.com/
https://rackn.com/2025/03/18/ready-for-kubernetes-on-bare-metal/
https://www.reuters.com/technology/cybersecurity/google-agrees-buy-cybersecurity-startup-wiz-32-bln-ft-reports-2025-03-18/
https://gabrielsimmer.com/blog/kubernetes-plus-oneplus


Kubernetes on Prem vs Cloud

In this podcast, Rob Hirschfeld, CEO and Co-founder of RackN talks with Stephen Spector, HPE Cloud Evangelist about the latest interest in Ansible and how Digital Rebar Provisioning leverages the tool for next generation provisioning of the modern datacenter.

Ansible and Digital Rebar : Partners in Provisioning

An excellent source for industry thought leadership in Edge Computing, Cloud Computing, DevOps, Open Source base on discussions at.the2030.cloud

Kubernetes on Prem vs Cloud

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