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.

Configuring Hosts using Ansible

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You can use Ansible to configure managed hosts within orcharhino. For our up-to-date documentation, see Configuring Hosts using Ansible. Ansible is an automation engine and configuration management tool. It works without client and daemon and solely relies on Python and SSH. Ansible consists of a control node, for example a notebook, a workstation, or a server and managed nodes, that is the hosts in its inventory. You can use Ansible to configure hosts similar to Puppet and Salt.
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AWX and GitLab Webhooks

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Tools like AWX and Ansible Automation Platform have become essential in large organizations to manage a large amount of Ansible projects. They provide the ability to pull Ansible code from multiple sources, schedule jobs, distribute credentials and permissions for different users in the organization, and a lot more. We recommend managing Ansible code in a version control system, specifically Git. There are several platforms for functions beyond mere version control. In this article, GitLab plays a central role.
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Ansible Automation Platform

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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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The Future of Ansible

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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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