RackN is a software company based in Austin, TX that provides a unified operational control platform for hybrid cloud and infrastructure. Their platform aims to help operations teams improve productivity and automate lifecycle management of complex technology stacks at scale across multiple platforms like Mesos, Kubernetes, OpenStack, and tools like Terraform. RackN uses intelligent template-based workflows to compose and simplify operations across physical, cloud and platform infrastructures and APIs.
2. RackN Confidential, 2016
• RackN is a software company based in
Austin, TX
• Roots are in cloud, datacenter, managed
service and software development
operations.
• Early-stage company with several F1000
customers.
About RackN
3. RackN Confidential, 2017
Mesos
OpenStack
C.Foundry
Kubernetes
Ops must dramatically improve productivity
Operations Cannot Keep Pace
Ops
Slows
Profit
Value Creation:
Consuming
Infrastucture
Elastically
Value Creation:
Developers
Adding Features
With Platforms
FasterDevelopers
CheaperServers
Constrained
Resources
4. RackN Confidential, 2016
Applications
Platforms
Isolation Tech
SDNetworks
O/Ses
Networks
Infrastructures
Its An Ops Problem…Not Technical!
MesosKubernet
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CIOs are looking to transform
their business and take
advantage of new
technologies such as Public &
Private IaaS, PaaS,
Containers, SDN, Security and
other revolutionary
technologies.
The challenge is making sure
the operations team can
execute on the vision and
automate the lifecycle
management of the stack in
a repeatable, scalable, cost-
efficient way at scale.
5. RackN Confidential, 2016
Multi-Cloud InfrastructureCommoditized Physical
RackN Unified Hybrid Management Platform
RackN Empowers Hybrid Operations
Multiple Platforms
MesosKubernetes OpenStack
Multiple ToolsMultiple Workloads
C.FoundryTerraform
Our intelligent, template-based software architecture creates a composable, lifecycle
management experience of complex technology which helps CIOs and IT Operations
leverage Hybrid Cloud & Infrastructure successfully!
Improving
O(dev)O(node) / O(ops)
Developers & Infrastructure are profit centers
Increasing scale = profit
Operations is cost
Cost/Unit must decrease
Google defines SRE
As programmers AND operator
Very difficult skill to find
RackN solutions jump-start and accelerate SRE competency.
We will run it and leave the resource as it is. Providing control.
Fills operational gaps for people, process and tech.. How do you add Docker or SDN into the mix in a repeatable way. Ansible,Puppet are great but they are runbooks. Inflexible, monolithic. Some may have it all figured out but need tools and automation. Some may have gaps (especially with upgrades) some may not have nothing at all…...we address all 3 scenarios. White space is too slow, manual, non-functional, DIY scripts or completely unclear, unsustainable, etc. Certainly not production ready in the Google, Facebook sense.
Multi platform orchestration. Upstream and downstream. Start from the end or start from the beginning. We fill the gaps. Start from the platform at work backwards. Start from the metal or cloud and work forwards.leverage existing tools via API. rackn injects when appropriate in the ops workflow. Make you workflow portable from platform to platform.
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In many instances, however, those containers are being deployed both on bare metal servers and on top of virtual machines, largely because most internal IT operations team don’t have a way to natively manage containers running on a bare metal server.