Building a Sustainable Management Infrastructure with Open Source Firmware - Zero Touch Provisioning and System Management

Learn about enhancing OpenBMC and open source firmware management in this 19-minute conference talk from OVHcloud Software Engineer Damien Lagneux and HPE Distinguished Technologist Jean-Marie Verdun. Discover how Cloud Service Providers can achieve long-term support independence through open source firmware solutions like OpenBMC and linuxboot. Explore proposed improvements for simplifying the OpenBMC stack through common system images, new hardware discovery algorithms for modular systems, and network-based firmware booting strategies. Master zero-touch provisioning techniques and understand how network-delivered firmware can streamline server decommissioning and reprovisioning while maintaining end-user security. Gain insights into breaking traditional supplier-consumer dependencies while effectively managing the inherent complexities of firmware automation and updates.