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.

Deploying a Kubernetes Cluster with orcharhino

2. December 2022

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.

Mouse-free

29. August 2022

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.

Migrating CentOS 8 to Rocky Linux 8 or AlmaLinux 8 using orcharhino

11. August 2022

Red Hat has ceased support for CentOS 8 with the end of 2021. Therefore people have been looking for alternatives. Two of the most famous ones are Rocky Linux 8 and AlmaLinux 8, both of which represent binary compatible distributions based on Red Hat.

Using Packer to Speed Up Internal Test Deployments – ATIX in Action

20. May 2022

For internal orcharhino testing, we use the template-based deployments deployment. Using up-to-date VM templates built by Packer speeds up our testing and development process.

Automated Windows Patches with Ansible

16. February 2022

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.

orcharhino and Sophos – a malware trail search

11. February 2022

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.

ATIX & the Open Source Community

9. November 2020

Smart proxies: What is it and why do I need it?

9. June 2020

Smart proxies are network nodes, which take over certain tasks in other networks for the orcharhino. In the simplest case, hosts get their content directly from orcharhinoand use it as DNS and DHCP server.

The orcharhino Summit from the participant’s perspective

4. April 2020

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.

Five reasons why the premiere of the orcharhino Summit was a complete success

4. April 2020

Actually, everything was planned completely differently: On April 23rd, 2020, orcharhino users and interested parties were supposed to meet with consultants and developers in our office in Garching. A personal exchange and exciting discussions about our tool for data center automation were planned. But then Corona came and we had to reschedule.

orcharhino Applicance

30. October 2019

The orcharhino Appliance for VMware is a preconfigured orcharhino that is already preinstalled in a virtual machine and can be adapted to your own needs with little effort. The appliance is based on a CentOS 7 Linux and comes as an OVA (Open Virtual Appliance / Open Virtual Archive)package.