Meet NetActuate at All Things Open

After a several year hiatus, NetActuate is pleased to announce that we’ll be participating at All Things Open in Raleigh, NC, Oct 12-14, 2025 as a Gold Sponsor. As a company with deep roots in the Raleigh area, with our east coast office and local team, we’re excited to connect with the open source and tech communities right here at home. Send an email to info@netactuate.com to schedule a time to meet up at the show.

Open Source Community Support

Open source is at the core of what we do and we take an “open source first” approach when developing software — including our onboarding playbooks for Ansible, Chef, Open Tofu, Terraform, and other open, non-proprietary platforms.

NetActuate is a proud supporter of the communities and projects that the Internet relies on like CPAN, FreeBSD, Gentoo Linux, Taubyte, Varnish Cache, and others. We’re also big believers in an open/equal internet and offer free Anycast DNS services to emerging country code Top Level Domains (ccTLDs). 

At All Things Open 2025, we are proud to provide free and discounted event passes to the We Love Open Source community, All Things Open RTP Meetup Group, and Open Source South Carolina Meetup Group. We’re also active participants in the local Triangle Linux User Group and gave a presentation at the June 12th event on the evolution of the SysAdmin role into DevOps.

Dial-up to DevOps (Booth #49)

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Working to bring vintage hardware, software, and networking gear back to life is a journey full of unpredictable highs and lows. But, what's consistent is that working with vintage tech builds respect for past engineers and reminds us of the fundamentals on which modern tech stacks are built.

This year at All Things Open, we're excited to partner with The Serial Port, a virtual technology museum with over 110K followers on YouTube. In this exclusive demo, The Serial Port will recreate a “1990s Internet Experience” with a hands-on, dial-up demo on a vintage PC and Cobalt RaQ web server appliance! Swing by for a demo and an “I dialed into the Internet today” sticker. 

Booth visitors then fast-forward to today with NetActuate demos using our customer portal to showcase DevOps and Anycast workflows on our global network.

Speaking Slots

OSS at the Network Edge: Automating DCIM for Accuracy and Speed

Track: Hardware / IoT

Date/Time: Monday, Oct 13, 3:45 PM EST

Room: 301B

Speaker: Craig Jackson, Devops Support Engineer, NetActuate

Edge computing requires a physical footprint at the network edge in multiple locations. Maintaining configurations and inventory tracking for various Points of Presence (PoPs), spread out over a global footprint, with a mixed infrastructure environment — such as colocation, bare metal, and VMs — is no simple task.

Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) is an industry standard approach and very helpful for configuration but is also prone to human error which slows down deployments. In this talk, we'll show how to automate for DCIM and IP Address Management (IPAM) using Open Source Software (OSS) tooling, extend capabilities with additional plugins, and marshal data through the various APIs. We'll demo this using Snipe-IT to extend Netbox's inventory tracking and BGP Session controls.

By increasing automation and decreasing manual tasks in DCIM, administrators can accelerate global deployments to the network edge. 

Open Source-Powered and Developer-First AI stack

Track: Case Study / Demo  

‍Date/Time: Tuesday, Oct 14, 11:30 AM ET

Room: 306A

Speakers: Yann Léger, CEO, Koyeb; Greg Wallace, Director of Partnerships, NetActuate

Enterprise technology leaders are turning down many worthy AI projects due to the punishing cost of hyperscaler AI tokens. Massive investments in GPUs from a single vendor end up underused due to poor software solutions. This AI Infrastructure was built with graphics in mind rather than the operations that commonly make up AI training and inference operations. And the closed ecosystem operates as a black box, limiting engineers’ abilities to optimize performance and fix issues. 

This is not an inevitability and we, as an industry, are working on increasing average utilization and increasing diversity of accelerators. The choice, control, and affordability that Open Source and Open Standards have brought to traditional software development the past 40 years have now finally come to AI.

Yann Léger, Co-Founder & CEO of Koyeb, a next-generation serverless cloud for developers, and Greg Wallace, Director of Partnerships at edge infrastructure provider NetActuate, will detail and demo how they deployed novel AI accelerators into the cloud, allowing AI developers from all parts of the stack to access GPU alternatives in seconds. Learn about how they overcame the challenges of deploying novel accelerators in a traditional server environment to put Tenstorrent Wormhole^TM and Blackhole^TM technology in the hands of kernel developers, machine learning engineers, and AI technologists. Discover how you can try novel AI accelerators today and contribute to their optimization.

Managing a Global Anycast Network is Hard

Track: Networking/Infra

Date/Time: Tuesday, Oct 14, 2:45 PM EST

Room: 302A

Speaker: Craig Jackson, Devops Support Engineer, NetActuate

The global routing table is constantly in flux and can change with or without your awareness, causing issues that affect you, your customers, and fellow peered networks. NetActuate has extensive experience deploying global anycast networks using a variety of open source tools. In this talk, we’ll demonstrate how effective observability of your anycast service can make your service as resilient as anycast itself. We'll demonstrate a fail-over in real-time of a high-performant, resilient global network.

Careers

NetActuate currently has several open positions and we will have our NetActuate recruiter on site to meet with applicants. Please stop by the booth on Monday or Tuesday from 1:45 - 4:45 to meet with Allyson May (ally@netactuate.com).

We look forward to seeing you in Raleigh!