Digital Rebar Provision

Spec sheet

What it does

Digital Rebar is RackN’s enterprise bare-metal automation platform covering Day 0, Day 1 and Day 2 infrastructure operations.Read 15 Oct 2026 · rackn.com

Intended users

The product is positioned for multi-site production bare metal teams and for regulated, air-gapped, and high-availability-critical fleets.Read 30 Sep 2026 · rackn.com

API

The API-first system exposes workflows, machine states, parameters, and logs, with websocket events, PATCH support, and a Swagger definition.Read 30 Sep 2026 · rackn.com

Integrations

The datasheet lists Terraform, Ansible AWX, VMware, Nutanix, Proxmox, Kubernetes, OpenShift, Git, GitLab, GitHub, ServiceNow, Remedy, Nagios, Prometheus, Chef and external vaults.Read 15 Oct 2026 · rackn.com

Security

Security features include SAML and LDAP single sign-on, Active Directory integration, API-layer role-based access control, access logs, and Secure Boot workflows.Read 30 Sep 2026 · rackn.com

Support

Every paid edition includes 8×5 support, while 24×7 premium support with architecture reviews is an upgrade.Read 15 Oct 2026 · rackn.com

License

The Digital Rebar server is proprietary compiled software; clients and many catalog components are Apache License 2.0.Read 15 Oct 2026 · hub.docker.com

Headquarters

Austin, Texas, United StatesRead 28 Sep 2026 · rackn.com

Founded

2014Read 28 Sep 2026 · rackn.com

API and extensibility

The product is API-first, exposes workflows and immutable content through its API, and supports webhooks, real-time triggers and alerting.Read 15 Oct 2026 · rackn.com

Company facts

LinkedIn lists RackN as privately held, founded in 2014, headquartered in Austin, Texas, with 11–50 employees.Read 15 Oct 2026 · au.linkedin.com

Customer scale reported

RackN’s CEO told the Thoughtbot podcast that the largest customers were managing about 20,000 machines with Digital Rebar.Read 15 Oct 2026 · podcast.thoughtbot.com

Developer libraries

RackN’s datasheet states that the API-centric design includes Python libraries and third-party portal integration.Read 15 Oct 2026 · rackn.com

Docker distribution

Docker Hub describes digitalrebar/provision as a container wrapper and reports more than 100,000 pulls, with the image updated about five years ago.Read 15 Oct 2026 · hub.docker.com

Documentation

The documentation set covers installation, environment, features, server operation, workflows, deployment, high availability, integrations, operating-system support, CLI, API and developer contribution.Read 15 Oct 2026 · hub.docker.com

Founder

RackN’s about page identifies Rob Hirschfeld as founder and CEO and Greg Althaus as founder and CTO.Read 15 Oct 2026 · rackn.com

Hardware lifecycle

The platform automates hardware from delivery through decommissioning with standardized workflows.Read 15 Oct 2026 · rackn.com

Independent deployment experience

A practitioner documented a high-availability deployment using four Raspberry Pi 4 systems and selected 8 GB models because Digital Rebar requires at least 4 GB RAM.Read 15 Oct 2026 · bradthebuilder.me

Independent description

The Thoughtbot podcast characterizes Digital Rebar as a platform connecting infrastructure tools into multi-component infrastructure pipelines.Read 15 Oct 2026 · podcast.thoughtbot.com

Independent rating

FAUN.dev’s editorial scorecard reports 64 out of 100 for Digital Rebar and identifies pricing transparency as its weakest criterion.Read 15 Oct 2026 · faun.dev

Infrastructure as code

Workflows, parameters, and roles are immutable content that supports version control, reuse, and staged rollout.Read 30 Sep 2026 · rackn.com

Installation

The documented universal install uses curl to run get.rebar.digital/stable and installs an endpoint locally.Read 15 Oct 2026 · rackn.gitlab.io

Lifecycle operations

Digital Rebar supports patching, configuration-baseline enforcement, drift detection, rebuilds, secure wiping, auditing, and hardware reclassification.Read 30 Sep 2026 · rackn.com

Limit: commercial licensing transition

The interview describes a shift from an open-core approach after users downloaded and operated Digital Rebar but did not pay for it.Read 15 Oct 2026 · podcast.thoughtbot.com

Limit: financial history

The CEO said RackN raised seed funding, later ran out of money and at one point returned to a two-founder team.Read 15 Oct 2026 · podcast.thoughtbot.com

Limit: operational complexity

RackN’s CEO acknowledged that the product took longer than expected to build because a simpler design was insufficient for enterprise data centers.Read 15 Oct 2026 · podcast.thoughtbot.com

Limit: pricing transparency

FAUN.dev reports that Digital Rebar has no published prices and scores low for pricing transparency.Read 15 Oct 2026 · faun.dev

Multi-site

Multi-Site Manager coordinates automation across geographically distributed sites while allowing each site to operate independently.Read 30 Sep 2026 · rackn.com

Multi-site operation

Sites can operate independently while retaining synchronized automation and shared control.Read 15 Oct 2026 · rackn.com

Notable release

RackN announced Digital Rebar v4.12 on July 28, 2023, highlighting expanded Day 2 batch operations.Read 15 Oct 2026 · rackn.com

Operating-system requirements

The quick-start guide lists Linux, with CentOS 8 recommended, and macOS as endpoint operating systems.Read 15 Oct 2026 · rackn.gitlab.io

Patch and change management

Version-controlled infrastructure pipelines apply updates, enforce configurations and revalidate systems during ongoing operations.Read 15 Oct 2026 · rackn.com

Praise: community content

The same practitioner highlighted RackN and community catalogs providing cloud-API and hardware-specific tooling.Read 15 Oct 2026 · bradthebuilder.me

Praise: integration breadth

An independent practitioner described Digital Rebar as interweaving Ansible, Terraform and Kubernetes while managing bare-metal lifecycle operations.Read 15 Oct 2026 · bradthebuilder.me

Pricing model

Digital Rebar licensing is quote-based, modular, and tailored to the customer fleet, with optional OpenShift and VCF modules and Factory or Lifecycle license models.Read 30 Sep 2026 · rackn.com

Security controls

RackN lists role-based access control, secrets management, SSO, auditing, secure boot and air-gap support as security capabilities.Read 15 Oct 2026 · rackn.com

Self-hosted

Digital Rebar runs entirely within the customer environment and is designed for air-gapped operation without dependence on external services.Read 30 Sep 2026 · rackn.com

Self-hosting

Digital Rebar runs inside the customer’s infrastructure and its control plane does not depend on RackN being online.Read 15 Oct 2026 · rackn.com

Supported environments

RackN names Windows, RHEL, Ubuntu, ESXi, OpenShift, Proxmox, Kubernetes and major hardware OEMs as supported targets.Read 15 Oct 2026 · rackn.com

System requirements

The quick-start guide specifies at least one CPU core, 4 GB RAM and 20 GB storage for an endpoint, with 60 GB recommended.Read 15 Oct 2026 · rackn.gitlab.io

Trial requirements

The self-trial requires a Linux instance with at least 4GB RAM and ports 22 and 8090–8092 open.Read 30 Sep 2026 · rackn.com

Trial setup

RackN’s self-trial requires a Linux instance with at least 4 GB RAM and ports 22 and 8090–8092 open.Read 15 Oct 2026 · rackn.com

Vendor neutrality

In the same interview, RackN’s CEO said the product is designed for heterogeneous, multi-vendor bare-metal environments.Read 15 Oct 2026 · podcast.thoughtbot.com

Zero-touch provisioning

First-boot workflows can configure RAID, BIOS, firmware, operating-system installation and initial setup without operator intervention.Read 15 Oct 2026 · rackn.com

Plans and prices

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