Facebook opened up a lab in its headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif., for vendors to test their software on Open Compute Project hardware.
Michael Liberte wrote in a blog post that Canonical and Red Hat were the first vendors to take advantage of the open lab, adding:
Canonical and Red Hat were the first software vendors to come in and validate their software on three of Facebook’s open hardware components: dual-socket Leopard servers (below), Honey Badger storage enclosures (below) and Knox JBODs (just a bunch of disks) (above). Canonical and Red Hat deployed their most popular software packages to see if there were any compatibility challenges, and the results were what we had hoped for: Nearly every software package worked out of the box on all three components. We successfully deployed and tested Canonical’s MAAS and Juju, Red Hat Gluster Storage, Ansible by Red Hat and Red Hat CloudForms, and both companies’ flavors of OpenStack. The latest releases from both companies’ Linux distribution (Canonical’s Ubuntu and Red Hat Enterprise Linux) also worked seamlessly. (You can read more about Canonical’s certification here, and Red Hat’s certification at redhat.com.) To top it off, bare-metal provisioning and hardware discovery was an absolute breeze using the solutions we tested. This is important with vanity-free open hardware, which is built for warehouse-scale computing and often does not include convenience features, like CD...