About Maximilian Kolb

Technical Content Creator at ATIX

Entries by Maximilian Kolb

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.

CentOS 8 alternatives

CentOS 8 alternatives In December 2020, Red Hat announced a change in CentOS 8 product policy. In short, the Red Hat-sponsored CentOS 8 community will focus on CentOS Stream and phase out CentOS 8 Linux at the end of 2021. This started a broad discussion in the open source operating system community. Which CentOS 8 […]

ATIX & the Open Source Community

From its inception, ATIX was conceived as a Linux and open-source company. In this context, we provide our customers with consulting, support, and training for various open source technologies including Foreman, Ansible, Salt, Puppet, Apache Kafka, Kubernetes, and other technologies to automate and run a Linux based data center.

Smart proxies: What is it and why do I need it?

Smart proxies are network nodes, which take over certain tasks in other networks for the orcharhino. In the simplest case, hosts get their content directly from orcharhinoand use it as DNS and DHCP server.

The orcharhino Summit from the participant’s perspective

My highlights of the orcharhino Summit were the two customer presentations by Frank (Benteler) and Martin Zimmermann (Fujitsu), which gave exciting, but above all practical, insights into the use of orcharhino. First of all, there was a presentation by Jan Bundesmann (consultant at ATIX AG) on possible use cases.