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ATIX at the Chemnitz Linux Days 2023

This year ATIX will participate in Config Management Camp 2023 with its own booth and several speakers! We are excited to meet everyone in Ghent! This year 4 members of the ATIX crew will be giving presentations!

orcharhino and SecureBoot

Security is mandatory in today's IT. Although orcharhino was primarily developed for lifecycle management of servers, more and more customers demand unattended provisioning and lifecycle management of laptop systems. This often means that you have to enable SecureBoot. In this article, we would like to give you a short introduction to SecureBoot and explain why it is difficult to combine it with orcharhino’s unattended provisioning.
logging in kubernetes

Logging in Kubernetes with Fluent Bit and OpenSearch

Logging primarily serves us to log processes within a program. We expect this to lead, for example, to better auditing, a faster error analysis, and, as a result, more robust programming. Today, we want to show you how to persist and visualize logs in a meaningful way with the right tooling.

ATIX at the Config Management Camp 2023

This year ATIX will participate in Config Management Camp 2023 with its own booth and several speakers! We are excited to meet everyone in Ghent! This year 4 members of the ATIX crew will be giving presentations!
tracing all the things

Trace All the Things

When people plan infrastructures and architectures, they usually pay a lot of attention to logging and monitoring right from the start. The idea of tracing is often neglected until the first inexplicable problem occurs. It is my mission to prevent this.
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Ansible Best Practices

Ansible is a tool that automates configuration management through code written in YAML. It is extremely popular, partly thanks to the fact that it works without clients and daemons: all it needs is Python and an SSH connection!

Migrating Git

If you want to change your system landscape, you might want to move your git repositories (repos) as well. However, there are always challenges and questions that you will need to think through and clarify in advance. We’ve been there and done that, and now we would like to share some of our experiences.
deploying kubernetes cluster

Deploying a Kubernetes Cluster with orcharhino

This blog post is about an orcharhino feature called application-centric deployment (ACD), and describes the process of deploying a Kubernetes cluster with orcharhino. It allows administrators to create hosts based on application templates, and makes it easier to run multiple instances/versions of a complex application.

Mouse-free

When I say I’m an IT consultant, what I really mean is that I’ve mastered Vim. All problems become so easy and quick to solve, because editing the files happens as if by magic. And in an emergency, even without a graphical user interface. Here are some tips that should make life and work with Vim easier for all readers.