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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.