Facebook opens lab to others to validate infrastructure software

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This post details the creation of a lab space at Meta's headquarters dedicated to allowing software vendors to test their software on open hardware components developed by Meta and the Open Compute Project (OCP). This initiative aims to address the challenges of integrating commercial and open-source software with open hardware, thereby increasing the adoption of OCP technologies. The lab has already seen successful validation of software from Canonical and Red Hat on Meta's Leopard servers, Honey Badger storage enclosures, and Knox JBODs, demonstrating compatibility with MAAS, Juju, Gluster Storage, Ansible, CloudForms, and OpenStack.