Infrastructure Automation

Infrastructure automation involves using technology and tools to manage, configure, and optimize IT infrastructure, reducing manual processes and ensuring efficiency, scalability, and security.

Here you will find valuable information and best practices relating to the automation of IT processes. From tools like Ansible, Git, Puppet, Terraform to orcharhino – discover how these technologies can help you manage your infrastructure more efficiently, minimize manual processes and future-proof your IT environment. Dive into our blog posts and learn more about modern automation solutions that can transform your IT.

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Ansible Best Practices

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!
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Deploying a Kubernetes Cluster with orcharhino

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.
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Ansible Automation Platform

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.
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Automated Windows Patches with Ansible

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.
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orcharhino and Sophos – a malware trail search

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.
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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.
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Ansible Collections – More clarity and easier sharing in Ansible

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.
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Test Ansible roles with Molecule

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.
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