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Foreman Birthday Party 2024

On July 15th, ATIX had the honor of hosting the 15th Foreman Birthday in Garching close to our main office. We had a blast meeting all the faces of the community that we’ve only interacted with over the wire all year.

CrewDay 2024

At ATIX AG, we recognize that the key to our success lies in the continuous growth and development of our team. This belief is the driving force behind our CrewDay – a day dedicated to learning, collaboration, and professional development. Our CrewDay this year was a remarkable event that brought our team together for a day of dynamic workshops and insightful sessions. CrewDay provided our team with an invaluable opportunity to expand our know-how – from learning the latest technologies to improving internal processes. Read our blog for a detailed report on the highlights of the day.

Navigating the XZ Security Vulnerability: A Comprehensive Guide

In the ever-evolving landscape of cybersecurity, the recent discovery of a critical vulnerability in XZ Utils, a widely used data compression software, underscores the need for vigilant security practices.

Identified as CVE-2024-3094, this backdoor vulnerability, discovered on March 28, 2024, has sent ripples through the open-source community and beyond, affecting various Linux distributions and necessitating immediate action to safeguard systems against potential exploits​ (Microsoft Community Hub)​​ (Unit 42)​.

Automating Kafka with Ansible

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

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.

Configuration Management across Different Networks with AWX

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.

DevOps Culture “without Bullshit”

Have you ever googled DevOps and tried to find an answer beyond bullshit bingo? No? Wonderful, then you’ve come to the right place. “No bullshit” is precisely the slogan under which we 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.

ATIX @ CfgMgmt Camp 2020

Because we made such good experiences in the last two years, also this year a delegation of the ATIX crew travelled to the CfgMgmt Camp (Config Management Camp) in Gent. For ecological reasons we renounced the plane and drove to Belgium with one car.

The Future of Ansible

The introduction of Collections is not the only recent major innovation in Ansible. Until version 2.8, Ansible was offered as one large package. This included a variety of modules developed and maintained by the Ansible community. The introduction of Collections happened as part of the release of version 2.9: a format for easy packaging and distribution of Ansible content. Collections significantly improved the possibilities for extensions as well as maintenance. The current major version is Ansible 3.0.0. ansible-base is not installed with it, but has become a dependency.