Day Two Cloud 188: Out-Of-Band Management And Infrastructure Automation With ZPE Systems (Sponsored)

Welcome to Day Two Cloud! In today’s episode, out of band management for your infrastructure. Only, not simply OOB. No, no. Think instead of the device supplying you the out of band connectivity also being the device that’s the box you run your automation tooling on. Our sponsor is ZPE Systems, and we talk through out-of-band management network design. If your idea of out-of-band management is a jump box and some terminal servers, there’s a lot more to the story when you bring automation tooling into the picture. Our guests are Rene Neumann, Director of Solution Engineering at ZPE Systems; and Frank Basso, EVP of Operations at Vapor IO. Rene knows how all the ZPE gear works, and Frank is a ZPE customer who will chat about Vapor IO’s use of ZPE gear in their edge compute sites. We discuss: * ZPE Systems’ approach to out-of-band management * What ZPE Systems means by automation infrastructure * What a real-world deployment looks like * How Vapor IO is using ZPE Systems * More Takeaways: Automation should be implemented through a dedicated (control) network Automation needs (short explanation of infrastructure parts needed) The same platform should be used for other projects, including security Show Links: ZPE Systems.com/packetpushers Vapor.io Rene Neumann on LinkedIn Frank Basso on LinkedIn Transcript: [00:00:04.050] – Ethan
Welcome to Day Two Cloud and in today’s episode, out of band management for your infrastructure only. Not simply out of band. No. Think of the device supplying you the out of band connectivity as also being the device that’s the box you run your automation tooling on. Our sponsor today is ZPE System. So we’re going to talk through out of band management network design. If your idea of an out of band management is like a jump box and some terminal service, there is a lot more to the story when you bring automation tooling into the picture. Our guests are Rene Newman, director of Solution Engineering at ZPE Systems, and Frank Basso, EVP of Operations at Vapor IO Aka. That Operations guy? Rene knows all about how the ZPE gear works. And Frank is a ZPE customer who’s going to chat about Vapor Io’s use of ZPE gear in their Edge Compute site. So let’s kick off the conversation with Rene. Rene, I think ZPE Systems is new to the day two cloud audience here. So you got to start from the beginning here. Who is ZPE Systems and what do you folks do? [00:01:03.670] – Rene
So, ZPE Systems, so we are a US company around about ten years old and dealing since then in the out of band business. So that is really our core. So think about traditional out of band console iPMI, Kvm, all that operations, security, management. That is exactly where we came from, or that is still what we do. It’s our core business really. But we do a good bit more because essentially we use out of band as a starting point and then we go from there to package the whole thing up using DevOps netops concepts to really provide an automation infrastructure platform for our customers. [00:01:44.850] – Ethan
Okay, we definitely going to dig into the DevOps component. But you guys have been around for ten years. Rene, how come I haven’t heard of you?