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Migrating CentOS 8 to Rocky Linux 8 or AlmaLinux 8 using orcharhino

11. August 2022

Red Hat has ceased support for CentOS 8 with the end of 2021. Therefore people have been looking for alternatives. Two of the most famous ones are Rocky Linux 8 and AlmaLinux 8, both of which represent binary compatible distributions based on Red Hat.

Running specific software versions in Kubernetes

23. June 2022

Always downloading the desired container image from the harbor can be enforced in two ways: by checksums instead of image tags and by ImagePullPolicy: Always.

Ansible Automation Platform

25. May 2022

Ansible is known to be one of the most widely used automation tools. This is certainly also due to the relatively simple setup and use. Especially in very large environments, i.e. with a large number of users, a pure CLI setup quickly reaches its limits: Multi-tenancy, credential management, scheduling are just some of the points that require a very close look.

Using Packer to Speed Up Internal Test Deployments – ATIX in Action

20. May 2022

For internal orcharhino testing, we use the template-based deployments deployment. Using up-to-date VM templates built by Packer speeds up our testing and development process.

The ATIX is a Great Place to Work

14. April 2022

ATIX AG was awarded by the Great Place to Work® Institute as one of the best employers in the category Bavaria, small medium-sized businesses, and information and communication technology (ITK). This time we even won first place in the category ITK.

Container building with Kaniko

1. April 2022

This blog article is about creating OCI-compatible container images. Besides the standard tools docker, buildah and podman you can also use Kaniko. We briefly explain here how to do that.

Automated Windows Patches with Ansible

16. February 2022

As a specialist for Linux patch management, we are often asked whether we are also familiar with Windows patch management and whether we can provide an automated solution for this. The answer is pretty simple, YES we can. We have already built and implemented fully automated Windows patch management with Ansible for several customers.

orcharhino and Sophos – a malware trail search

11. February 2022

The use of anti-virus and security software is a prerequisite in most infrastructure scenarios. This makes it all the more important to adapt them to the respective usage scenario. orcharhino as the central hub in the computing cluster is of particular importance.

Kubeflow at Home: AI and Kubernetes outside of Google & Co.

26. January 2022

There are always new hot trends in the IT world: yesterday it was all about AI, ML and Data Science - today everything is running in containers. It's no wonder the two worlds are coming together: it is now possible to get Tensorflow-based AI environments running in a Kubernetes cluster. Possible, but not necessarily easy, as we learned.

DevOps Culture “without Bullshit”

24. November 2021

Have you ever googled DevOps and tried to find an answer beyond bullshit bingo? No? Wonderful, then you've come to the right place. "Without bullshit" is, after all, exactly the buzzword we use to live DevOps for our customers and also for ourselves. And summarized in one sentence, it means: a mix of the right culture and the right tools.

CentOS 8 alternatives

18. November 2021

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 alternatives will you use?

Container Technology at IT-DLZ

21. October 2021

At OSAD 2021, Matthias Kanzog from IT-DLZ Bayern gave an insight into the container technology used. "In order to be able to deploy applications faster and more flexibly in the future while ensuring data security, the IT DLZ decided to set up its own container operation." This is Matthias' answer to the "crucial question" about agility and flexibility in public authorities.

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