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Rob Hirschfeld

http://robhirschfeld.com
Rob Hirschfeld has been working in Cloud automation since 1999 where he co-founded one of the first IaaS companies. He is CEO of RackN: a company dedicated to commercial support OpenCrowbar, the bare metal DevOps platform. He is also a long serving OpenStack board member who is passionate about Agile/Lean process and scale data center automation.
Infrastructure as Code Key Automation Concepts

Infrastructure as Code and Six Key Automation Concepts

December 12, 2019 | CI/CD pipelines, Composable automation, Dynamic Infrastructure, IaaS, IaC, infrastructure as code, Programmatic Configuration
This summer, I walked into an Infrastructure as Code (IaC) flame war because I was blissfully unaware of just how broadly IaC had been reinterpreted. Reviewing the comments, it’s clear that thinking ...
SRE vs. DevOps vs. Cloud Native: The Server Cage Match

SRE vs. DevOps vs. Cloud Native: The Server Cage Match

May 3, 2017 | business processes, cloud-native, developers, devops, Lean, operations, site reliability engineering, SRE, workflow, workload
This post supports my DevOpsDays Austin Presentation on May 4 I don’t believe in DevOps shaming. Our community seems compelled to correct use of DevOps as an adjective for tools, teams and ...
How the Lure of an 'Easy Button' Installer Traps Projects

How the Lure of an ‘Easy Button’ Installer Traps Projects

October 10, 2016 | application testing, composability, development, project installer
As preamble for this post, I wrote about the Unicorn Installer challenge. The challenge is that user needs are too deeply heterogeneous for good reasons to create a vertically integrated way (aka ...
It's Time to Slay the Universal Installer Unicorn

It’s Time to Slay the Universal Installer Unicorn

June 8, 2016 | cloud deployment, Crowbar, Dell, Easy Button, Install, kubernetes, openstack
While many people want a universal "easy button installer,” they also want it to work on their unique snowflake of infrastructures, tools, networks and operating systems. I call them snowflakes because their ...
5 Key Aspects of High Fidelity DevOps

5 Key Aspects of High Fidelity DevOps

May 4, 2016 | abstraction, automation, composability, fidelity gaps, idempotency, openstack, orchestration, repeatability
As much as we talk about how we should have shared goals spanning Dev and Ops, it's not nearly as easy as it sounds. To fuel a DevOps culture, we have to ...
What If We Had Git for DevOps?

What If We Had Git for DevOps?

February 19, 2016 | composability, developers, development, GIT, ops, script
I used to hate Git. Compared to my previous source control systems (SVN, SourceForge and floppies), it was cryptic, opaque and hard to learn. It was comfortable to create a set of ...
DevOps and the Challenge with Services

DevOps and the Challenge with Services

January 26, 2016 | API, devops, DNS, microservices, services automation, system automation
At RackN, we've been working for years to make DevOps portable across platforms. For us, that means the ability to move between clouds and from cloud to metal. Of the several challenges ...
Two paths to metal devops: cloud-like API driven & cluster building

Two paths to metal devops: cloud-like API driven & cluster building

June 19, 2015 | containers, devops, docker, Metal, Physical
I've been seeing a rising interest in metal DevOps fueled by containers and scale-out data center platforms (like Hadoop, Ceph & OpenStack) that run at the metal level. While I see this is ...
Are VMs becoming El Caminos?

Are VMs becoming El Caminos?

March 6, 2015 | bare metal, cloud, clouds, containers, docker, VMs
In 2010, it looked as if virtualization had won. We expected all servers to virtualize workloads and the primary question was which cloud infrastructure manager would dominate. Now in 2015, the picture ...

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