Rackspace Open Sources Dreadnot for Data Center Software Deployment

"Open Source software is created in a number of different ways, but the most common is simply when a developer has an "itch." Rackspace's Cloud Monitoring Team had such an itch when it came to having the right tools for the continuous deployment of software to their data centers and that's how the new Dreadnot tool was born.

"A lot of tooling that exists is the low level of going to one server and running a command," Querna said. "Dreadnot is about building the higher level orchestration to help you deal with a distributed system like the cloud."

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