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Foreman Birthday 2020

11. August 2020

Foreman Birthday Party – online! For 11 years now, the Foreman project has facilitated the management of large server infrastructures and is a popular open source component among administrators.

Ansible Collections – More clarity and easier sharing in Ansible

5. August 2020

by atix-crew

Tags: Ansible, Infrastructure Automation

Ansible is the fastest-growing configuration management tool these days. This has also created a steadily growing community. Due to the simple architecture and the resulting easy extensibility, more and more companies and private persons provide their roles, modules and playbooks for their products and projects.

Smart proxies: What is it and why do I need it?

9. June 2020

by maximilian-kolb

Tags: orcharhino

Smart proxies are network nodes, which take over certain tasks in other networks for the orcharhino. In the simplest case, hosts get their content directly from orcharhinoand use it as DNS and DHCP server.

GitOps – Kubernetes The Easy Way

17. April 2020

by andyw

Tags: DevOps, Git, Kubernetes

The management of Kubernetes should be easy, simple and clear. Well-known DevOps practices and ultimately automation should be accessible by the management technique. The first GitOps principle, the declarative approach, is the essential Kubernetes management technique to leverage the desired feature set.

Reasons why the ATIX is a Great Place to Work for me

9. April 2020

by nadjas

Tags: ATIX Insights, Working at ATIX

The orcharhino Summit from the participant’s perspective

4. April 2020

by maximilian-kolb

Tags: ATIX Insights, orcharhino

My highlights of the orcharhino Summit were the two customer presentations by Frank (Benteler) and Martin Zimmermann (Fujitsu), which gave exciting, but above all practical, insights into the use of orcharhino. First of all, there was a presentation by Jan Bundesmann (consultant at ATIX AG) on possible use cases.

Five reasons why the premiere of the orcharhino Summit was a complete success

4. April 2020

by tobias-wagner

Tags: ATIX Insights, orcharhino

Actually, everything was planned completely differently: On April 23rd, 2020, orcharhino users and interested parties were supposed to meet with consultants and developers in our office in Garching. A personal exchange and exciting discussions about our tool for data center automation were planned. But then Corona came and we had to reschedule.

WinRM & Ansible – Ways of authentication and encryption

15. January 2020

by daniel-schumacher

Tags: Ansible, Infrastructure Automation

With Ansible, you can configure a variety of systems in an easy way. Most companies use it to manage their Linux-based systems.

OSAD HackDay 2019

30. December 2019

by markusbucher

Tags: ATIX Insights, Events

The day after the OSADs, it was time again for the development department to host a HackDay for the Forman/Katello OpenSource project at the ATIX headquarters.

Test Ansible roles with Molecule

3. December 2019

by atix-crew

Tags: Ansible, Infrastructure Automation

One of the advantages of the Configuration Management Tool Ansible is the easy-to-read-and-write code in YAML. This includes the possibility to test the code in an easy way.

orcharhino Applicance

30. October 2019

by daniel-schumacher

Tags: orcharhino

The orcharhino Appliance for VMware is a preconfigured orcharhino that is already preinstalled in a virtual machine and can be adapted to your own needs with little effort. The appliance is based on a CentOS 7 Linux and comes as an OVA (Open Virtual Appliance / Open Virtual Archive)package.

OSAD 2019: Behind the Scenes of the Open Source Automation Days.

25. October 2019

by emiri-nomura

Tags: ATIX Insights, Events

Monday, 14.10.2019, early morning at Hilton Munich Airport: after months of preparation, the Open Source Automation Days 2019 started—this year with one workshop day and two conference days. Going through the feedback from the 150 attendees, Munich’s largest manufacturer-independent open-source conference was a complete success!