Rackspace Open Sources Dreadnot for Data Center Software Deployment

Written By
SMK
Sean Michael Kerner
Jan 12, 2012

“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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