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Blog posts tagged
"bare metal"

Marcin Bednarz
6 June 2019

Need to set up servers in remote locations?

Cloud and server Article

Use bare metal provisioning with a top-of-the-rack switch When deploying a small footprint environment such as edge computing sites, 5G low latency services, a site support cabinet or baseband unit, its critical to establish the optimal number of physical servers needed for set up. While several approaches exist, bare metal provisioning t ...

Canonical
2 December 2017

Get Ready For Multi-Cloud!

Cloud and server Article

The future of cloud infrastructure will have organisations using combinations of OpenStack, Containers, public cloud, and VMware to deliver applications. In this session Mark Baker will highlight the best Multi-Cloud practises learned in the field for architecting, deploying and managing scale out infrastructure from baremetal through to ...

Mark Baker
18 July 2017

How modelling helps you avoid getting a stuck OpenStack

Cloud and server Article

Lego model of an Airbus A380-800. Airbus run OpenStack A “StuckStack” is a deployment of OpenStack that usually, for technical but sometimes business reasons, is unable to be upgraded without significant disruption, time and expense. In the last post on this topic we discussed how many of these clouds became stuck and how the decisions ...

Canonical
2 June 2017

Customising MAAS installs

Cloud and server Article

by Matt Jarvis, Consulting Architect at Canonical Canonical’s MAAS is a bare metal provisioning and lifecycle management system. In this post, we’ll look at customising installs provisioned by MAAS to enable site specific configuration. Historically, the paradigm for bare metal machine installation has been to use a ‘golden master’ image, ...

Canonical
27 March 2017

Bare metal server provisioning is evolving the HPC market

Cloud and server Article

  In the early days of High Performance Computing (HPC), ‘Big Data’ was just called ‘Data’ and organizations spent millions of dollars to buy mainframes or large data processing/warehousing systems just to gain incremental improvements in the manipulation of information. Today, IT Pros and systems administrators are under more pressure th ...

Alexia Emmanoulopoulou
27 March 2017

Video tutorial: learn how to install MAAS

Cloud and server Videos

This short video offers step-by-step instructions on how to install MAAS (Metal as a Service) to your machine. Before you start you’ll need: One small server for MAAS and at least one server which can be managed with a BMC. It is recommended to have the MAAS server provide DHCP and DNS on a network the ...

Jorge O. Castro
2 March 2017

Deploying Kubernetes on AWS, GCE and bare metal

Cloud and server Videos

As part of of the weekly Kubernetes Community meeting Marco Ceppi deploys a fully functional Kubernetes cluster on AWS, GCE, and bare metal. If you’re interested in bare metal Kubernetes, we invite you to join us and other contributors in the sig-onprem community. Not sure where to get started? Check out our Getting Started documentation. ...

Canonical
2 March 2017

Bare metal server provisioning series: the economics of automation

Cloud and server Article

This is the first in a series of blogs posts discussing the value of bare metal server provisioning and the economics it can bring to businesses. The server industry is becoming more and more automated. Robots are helping to deploy servers and clouds that are moving away from large racks of blades and hardware managed ...

Canonical
22 February 2017

Webinar: Get cloud-ready servers in minutes with MAAS

Cloud and server Webinar

Learn how to take full advantage of existing hardware investments by maximising hardware efficiency. This live webinar was broadcasted on Wednesday 15th Mach 2017. Watch it on-demand now. Data center operators are quickly becoming more automated and need to have the flexibility to leverage their hardware infrastructure more efficiently. C ...

Samuel Cozannet
30 January 2017

Installing a DIY bare metal GPU cluster for Kubernetes

Cloud and server Article

I don’t know if you have ever seen one of the Orange Boxes from Canonical These are really sleek machines. They contain 10 Intel NUCs, plus an 11th one for the management. They are used as a demonstration tool for big software stacks such as OpenStack, Hadoop, and, of course, Kubernetes. They are freely available ...

Canonical
23 January 2017

What IT pros need to know about server provisioning

Cloud and server White paper

Big Software, IoT and Big Data are changing how organisations are architecting, deploying, and managing their infrastructure. Traditional models are being challenged and replaced by software solutions that are deployed across many environments and many servers. However, no matter what infrastructure you have, there are bare metal servers ...

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