orcharhino

orcharhino is a comprehensive solution for automating and managing data centers, offering provisioning, configuration management, and lifecycle management support.

Here, you’ll find insightful blog posts covering everything from IT automation and DevOps to best practices using orcharhino. Stay up to date with the latest trends, tips, and in-depth guides to optimize your infrastructure management with orcharhino.

Live patching und Foreman

Live Patching & Foreman—how it fits together

Apply patches and critical updates to your Linux kernel without rebooting your system, maximize uptime, and perform critical security updates and major bug fixes: in his talk, Bernhard presented how to combine and use this technology with Foreman.
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orcharhino and SecureBoot

Security is mandatory in today's IT. Although orcharhino was primarily developed for lifecycle management of servers, more and more customers demand unattended provisioning and lifecycle management of laptop systems. This often means that you have to enable SecureBoot. In this article, we would like to give you a short introduction to SecureBoot and explain why it is difficult to combine it with orcharhino’s unattended provisioning.
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deploying kubernetes cluster

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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Mouse-Free ATIX blog

Mouse-free

When I say I'm an IT consultant, what I really mean is that I've mastered Vim. All problems become so easy and quick to solve, because editing the files happens as if by magic. And in an emergency, even without a graphical user interface. Here are some tips that should make life and work with Vim easier for all readers.
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ansible

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

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 orcharhino Summit from the participant’s perspective

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.
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