What is Equinix Metal?
As part of Equinix — the world’s digital infrastructure company — we provide automated & interconnected infrastructure. Formerly Packet, now Equinix Metal™.
Equinix Metal is a tool in the Cloud Hosting category of a tech stack.
Who uses Equinix Metal?
Companies
14 companies reportedly use Equinix Metal in their tech stacks, including HashiCorp, Grafana, and Qubitro.
Developers
29 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Equinix Metal.
Equinix Metal Integrations
Terraform, Ansible, Red Hat OpenShift, Rancher, and VMware vSphere are some of the popular tools that integrate with Equinix Metal. Here's a list of all 13 tools that integrate with Equinix Metal.
Pros of Equinix Metal
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Decisions about Equinix Metal
Here are some stack decisions, common use cases and reviews by companies and developers who chose Equinix Metal in their tech stack.
Hari Vasudevan
Why Equinix Metal baremetal why not AWS?
How fault torance in equinix baremetal? Hardware level? VM level? Who will do bios upgrade?
What is equinix responsibility and customer?
Who will manage vmware infrasture?
Cost EBM VS AWS?
If we provision a new server how long it will take?
Data Replication and Backups
Equinix Metal's Features
- Automated bare metal
- Native Equinix Fabric integration
- AMD, Arm and Intel Configs
- Simple hourly pricing starting at $.50/hr
- CentOS, Debian, Ubuntu, Flatcar Linux, Windows, ESXi, and FreeBSD on demand
- Cloud-Init and Cloud-Config compatible
- Advanced network with native IPv6
- Bring your own IP space.
Equinix Metal Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Equinix Metal?
Segment
Segment is a single hub for customer data. Collect your data in one place, then send it to more than 100 third-party tools, internal systems, or Amazon Redshift with the flip of a switch.
Packer
Packer automates the creation of any type of machine image. It embraces modern configuration management by encouraging you to use automated scripts to install and configure the software within your Packer-made images.
Parcel
Parcel is a web application bundler, differentiated by its developer experience. It offers blazing fast performance utilizing multicore processing, and requires zero configuration.
Flow
Flow is an online collaboration platform that makes it easy for people to create, organize, discuss, and accomplish tasks with anyone, anytime, anywhere. By merging a sleek, intuitive interface with powerful functionality, we're out to revolutionize the way the world's productive teams get things done.
NGINX
nginx [engine x] is an HTTP and reverse proxy server, as well as a mail proxy server, written by Igor Sysoev. According to Netcraft nginx served or proxied 30.46% of the top million busiest sites in Jan 2018.
