Next-Generation Provisioning

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“Virtualization and cloud computing have forever changed the way IT environments are built and managed. By contributing to the Razor project, EMC is delivering critical provisioning tools required for the success of this open source community—thereby accelerating cloud adoption.”

- Dan Hushon, EMC

System administrators require the same agility and productivity from their hardware infrastructure that they get from the cloud. In response, Puppet Labs and EMC collaboratively developed Razor, a next-generation physical and virtual hardware provisioning solution. Razor provides you with unique capabilities for managing your hardware infrastructure, including:

  • Auto-Discovered Real-Time Inventory Data
  • Dynamic Image Selection
  • Model-Based Provisioning
  • Open APIs and Plug-in Architecture
  • Metal-to-Cloud Application Lifecycle Management

Together, Razor and Puppet enable system administrators to automate every phase of the IT infrastructure lifecycle, from bare metal to fully deployed cloud applications.

Razor is open sourced under the Apache 2.0 and is fully compatible with both Puppet open source and Puppet Enterprise. Learn more below, or go to Puppet Forge and download Razor now.

Auto-Discovered Real-Time Inventory Data

Razor provides auto-discovered, real-time inventory data for every hardware node, eliminating inefficient, error-prone manual processes. As a result, you get full insight into the latest, up-to-date status of your hardware inventory.

Dynamic Image Selection

Razor automatically selects the correct operating system image based on the auto-discovered, real-time inventory data, removing the need for manual intervention whenever there is a change in hardware configuration.

Model-Based Provisioning

Razor models the desired state of each hardware node and its operating system, automatically tracks provisioning progress toward this state, and can even decide when to re-provision. This gives you full control over a node’s boot sequence and a complete log of its lifecycle.

Open APIs and Plug-in Architecture

Razor’s RESTful open APIs gives you full programmatic control of the rules and models that govern operating system image selection and hardware provisioning. Furthermore, Razor’s modular architecture enables the Puppet community to collaborate and share plug-ins to support any operating system and any boot sequence.

Metal-to-Cloud Application Lifecycle Management

With Razor, Puppet Labs is able to provide automation for every phase of the IT infrastructure lifecycle, eliminating the headache of trying to integrate and maintain multiple siloed management tools.

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