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orcharhino-installer Plugin Selection

The introduction of the web-based orcharhino-installer makes the orcharhino installation much easier. It is therefore logical to take the next step now.

fpm – the fast track to the parcel

Today’s article deals with the tool “fpm” – effing package management. We are currently sprinting towards orcharhino 3.2.0 within our agile working methodology ‘Scrum’. One aim of the new version of the tool for orchestration, administration and lifecycle management of servers within a data center is to represent the first step towards simplifying the installation […]

ATIX #CrewDay: Rhino learns to speak!

On November 20th, 2017 it was that time again: All colleagues at ATIX AG – from consultants to developers to marketing and support – met for ATIX #CrewDay to exchange ideas and work together on various projects. Of course, these are all about LINUX & Open Source.

SaltStack: Salty alternative to the puppet player

There are various programs for the configuration management of servers. The names Puppet, Ansible and Salt are the most common. In the following blog article, some features of S altStack (Salt for short).

Snapshots for everyone!

The new Foreman / orcharhino plugin for managing VMware vSphere snapshots can create a snapshot. All of our customers rely on virtual server environments – primarily VMware’s virtualization solutions. The main reasons for this are cost savings due to energy savings, smaller data centers and reduction in working time when provisioning servers.

Configuration management with Ansible

The Puppet alternative from Red Hat. In times of large and dynamic IT infrastructures, the topic of IT automation is becoming increasingly important. There are a variety of solutions that are used depending on the nature of the infrastructure.

Creation of Foreman RPM packages with Docker containers

The ATIX development team spent a lot of time improving orcharhino’s build environment during the last scrum. So far, we’ve been using Jenkins build jobs, which have done the job quite well. However, this approach is not always as flexible as we need it to be to maintain quality product delivery for our customers. The […]

Rancher: New containers for the (server) farm – quick and easy

There are several ways to start new stacks (=applications consisting of several containers) with Rancher. While it is possible to start the individual containers via the command line as with Docker or via docker-compose (see part 2), there are additional, simpler options with Rancher. In the web interface, it is possible to create each container […]

Rancher: Conducting a container pack

Rancher was developed to manage containers clearly and easily, especially on clusters. Rancher was primarily developed for Docker and forms a cluster of several servers (=hosts) via Cattle on which Docker runs, but Docker Swarm, Kubernetes and Mesos are also supported. However, this article will not go into these container environments any further, but will […]

Docker Swarm: A herd of containers

Welcome to Docker Swarm! Containers thrive like pack animals in large numbers, but their distribution on the servers is crucial. Docker Swarm, which has been integrated into the Docker Engine since version 1.12, is ideal for this. Learn more about manager and worker nodes, service variants, load balancing and scalability. This is part 3 of our Docker/Rancher series, in which we look at the distributed environment of Docker Swarm.