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Configuring Hosts using Ansible

5. July 2023

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.

ATIX at DevOpsCon 2023: Berlin

26. June 2023

This year, ATIX was part of the DevOpsCon in Berlin in June. Find out about our trip and impressions of the 2023 conference.

Registers and Macros in Vim

23. June 2023

Chemnitz Linux Days 2023—and ATIX in the thick of things! In his talk, our Senior IT Consultant Jan Bundesmann presented registers and macros in Vim.

New Adventures in ArgoCD: Automating Automation

13. June 2023

ArgoCD is a great CICD tool for facilitating Git-based Kubernetes deployments. Helm is a widely used solution, with good reason, to simplify complex Kubernetes deployments and customize them to your needs. It's even supported by Argo per se. You can't ask for anything better than a combination of the two. Or can you?

WebAssembly on the Server Side: What is WASI?

5. June 2023

Cloud-Ready with Go (Golang)

21. April 2023

Digitization is a major topic these days. For example, more and more companies want to digitize and optimize their internal processes or services for customers. Often, they also have to keep up with the growing flow of customers by scaling their applications. In this context, the words cloud and Kubernetes often come up in the first conversation. There is no mention of a microservice-oriented or cloud-native development approach, for example with Golang.

ATIX at the Chemnitz Linux Days 2023

8. March 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!

Installing OpenShift through Foreman

23. February 2023

If you understand how to install CoreOS, you can also install OpenShift 4. You can provision CoreOS hosts using Foreman. In his talk at the Config Management Camp 2023, Jan explained how to do so, what obstacles there are, and how to use this solution to deploy an OpenShift cluster.

Live Patching & Foreman—how it fits together

23. February 2023

Apply patches and critical updates to your Linux kernel without rebooting your system, maximize uptime, and perform critical security updates and major bug fixes: in his talk, Bernhard presented how to combine and use this technology with Foreman.

pulp_deb past, present, and future – tell us what pulp_deb development should focus on next

22. February 2023

The pulp_deb plugin is entering a new phase of the software lifecycle, and we want you to tell us what the plugin development should focus on! We will provide an update on the latest features and how we got here, but the focus will be on where we plan to go next.

orcharhino and SecureBoot

15. February 2023

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 with Fluent Bit and OpenSearch

10. February 2023

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.

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