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I'm Stephen Smith, a Senior Specialist Solutions Architect at Red Hat. I build edge platforms on Linux that deploy the same way at every site: virtual protection for power substations, RHEL image mode (bootc) hosts, and small high-availability clusters.
Everything here links to the public code and the step-by-step guides.
ansible-vpac · Quickstart
A 3-node RHEL cluster for protection software: KVM, Ceph, Pacemaker HA and PTP time sync. Describe your site in a local web form, then check, deploy and validate with three commands. No Ansible experience assumed.
virtual-protection
A repeatable single-node and 3-node RHEL 9 architecture for multi-vendor IEC 61850 protection workloads, following the vPAC Alliance's software-defined substation vision.
Single-node manual · 13 steps
From a bare RHEL install to a vendor's virtual protection relay: networking, virtualization, PTP, real-time tuning, validation and troubleshooting.
Image mode (bootc)
The single-node host defined as a RHEL image mode container image. Updates become one atomic bootc upgrade, with rollback.
2node-drbd-rhde
Two nodes on RHEL image mode with DRBD replicating storage between them, running both virtual machines and containers.