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Event-Driven Ansible

18. January 2024

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.

Christmas donation Team Engineering

18. December 2023

Every year, ATIX donates to a charitable cause at Christmas time. For the first time, this will take place at team level in 2023 - the organization to be supported will now be selected per team. Our engineering team was the first to do so and chose the children's cancer charity. We asked team leader Bernhard Suttner how the choice came about.

Switching from Docker to CRI-O

15. November 2023

In this blog post, we’d like to answer some FAQs regarding the change from Docker to CRI-O. Here we go!

Recap of the orcharhino Summit 2023

30. October 2023

orcharhino Summit 2023: sky-high discussions about open-source software
Have you ever asked yourself what a Ferris Wheel, October 17, and orcharhino have in common? No? Well, you should! Take a look at our recap of the orcharhino Summit 2023—this blog will give you a few insights!

Open-source software today and tomorrow

10. October 2023

The color green and open source—not an obvious match, at first glance. Really not? Wrong! Open source actually is green. Would you like to know in what way this is the case and what everything has to do with ATIX's green rhino and Istio? Then enjoy reading my blog!

Scaling Applications to Zero with Kubernetes and KEDA

9. October 2023

For cost reasons, it is often neither feasible nor desirable to assign enough resources to a deployment for it to be able to handle peak loads at all times. Therefore, we typically scale applications up and down based on the load they are currently facing. This usually involves a minimum number of instances deployed at any time, even if there is no load. This minimum can force us to keep more worker nodes in our Kubernetes cluster than necessary as the instances have an assigned resource budget. In this blog post, we will take a look at how to reduce the minimum amount of deployed instances to zero and discuss which kinds of applications benefit from that the most.

Introducing pulp_deb 3.0—the Future is Structured!

30. August 2023

Today, we want to introduce the pulp_deb 3.0 release! In this blog article, we explain why we do this, how we come to do it, and how we have solved one or two existing problems. Enjoy reading!

Automating Kafka with Ansible

10. August 2023

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.

Managing Large Debian Repositories with Pulp

7. August 2023

Pulp is a free, open-source platform for software repository management. You can fetch, upload, and distribute content from various sources. Repository versioning makes sure that nothing is lost as you can always roll back to previous versions. The pulp_deb plugin adds APT repository support.

Experiences of ATIX apprentices

25. July 2023

In the last 12 months, two of our colleagues successfully completed their apprenticeship at ATIX. We are pleased that they decided to continue working as part of our team – we look forward to the future collaboration, Anh and Emiri!

Kubernetes kOps

14. July 2023

The cloud and Kubernetes belong together, right? More or less, this is the case. Although containerized applications quickly find a home environment with cloud providers, for some myterious reasons, it’s not that easy to set up a Kubernetes environment in the cloud. Unless you use kOps, the tool written exactly for this purpose. This is how it works.

Configuration Management across Different Networks with AWX

11. July 2023

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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