Infrastructure Automation

Infrastructure automation involves using technology and tools to manage, configure, and optimize IT infrastructure, reducing manual processes and ensuring efficiency, scalability, and security.

Here you will find valuable information and best practices relating to the automation of IT processes. From tools like Ansible, Git, Puppet, Terraform to orcharhino – discover how these technologies can help you manage your infrastructure more efficiently, minimize manual processes and future-proof your IT environment. Dive into our blog posts and learn more about modern automation solutions that can transform your IT.

Webinar: Rundeck as a starting point for a simple self-service portal

In this webinar, you’ll be introduced to Rundeck, an automation solution that allows teams and entire organizations to schedule and execute complex workflows. Through its intuitive web interface and fine-grained access control, Rundeck enables a self-service approach where users can trigger their own pre-approved automation tasks.
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Event-Driven Ansible ATIX blog

Event-Driven Ansible

Event-Driven Ansible is here and it opens a whole new world of possibilites for working with Ansible. This article gives an introduction to it and shows a minimal example.
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Kafka and Ansible

Automating Kafka with Ansible

In all areas of life, there are a lot of issues we are not aware of. To measure these problems, we use the so-called fulfillment rate. For example: with a fulfillment rate of 90%, a heart beat would stop every 85 seconds, and an average A4 page of text would contain 30 typos. A fulfillment rate of 99.9% (which seems a lot) still means 22,000 wrong bank bookings per hour, and a total of 32,000 missed heart beats per year. The answer is automation and standardization! These approaches help solve problems we are often not aware of.
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Configuration Management across Different Networks with AWX ATIX blog

Configuration Management across Different Networks with AWX

At the Chemnitz Linux Days 2023, Ottavia Balducci, IT Consultant at ATIX, presented the advantages of AWX. AWX is a tool that can be used to configure hosts with Ansible. It is therefore particularly popular with larger organizations. AWX is open source, fully customisable, has a web UI, REST API, RBAC, CI/CD ... There are many reasons for working with AWX.
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Configuring Hosts using Ansible

You can use Ansible to configure managed hosts within orcharhino. For our up-to-date documentation, see Configuring Hosts using Ansible. Ansible is an automation engine and configuration management tool. It works without client and daemon and solely relies on Python and SSH. Ansible consists of a control node, for example a notebook, a workstation, or a server and managed nodes, that is the hosts in its inventory. You can use Ansible to configure hosts similar to Puppet and Salt.
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awx ansible blog

AWX and GitLab Webhooks

Tools like AWX and Ansible Automation Platform have become essential in large organizations to manage a large amount of Ansible projects. They provide the ability to pull Ansible code from multiple sources, schedule jobs, distribute credentials and permissions for different users in the organization, and a lot more. We recommend managing Ansible code in a version control system, specifically Git. There are several platforms for functions beyond mere version control. In this article, GitLab plays a central role.
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